August 27, 2025 — Leads & Copy — Bench IQ, an AI-powered judicial intelligence platform utilized by top law firms, has announced a $5.3 million seed round. The funding was led by Battery Ventures and Inovia Capital, with participation from CIBC Innovation Banking, MVP Ventures, Maple VC, and Haystack VC.
The investment will support Bench IQ’s growth, focusing on expanding its proprietary dataset, enhancing its AI agents, and growing its team in the U.S. and Canada. Bench IQ is used by leading AmLaw 200 law firms to tailor legal arguments and strategies to individual judges’ perspectives.
Jimoh Ovbiagele, co-founder and CEO of Bench IQ, stated that the platform enables litigators to gain judicial intelligence, allowing them to craft smarter strategies and deliver better results. Jeffrey Gettleman, co-founder and CCO of Bench IQ, added that the platform provides litigators with judicial intelligence that was previously unattainable.
Bench IQ aggregates and analyzes proprietary judicial data, using AI agents to identify patterns in judges’ reasoning and provide insights for litigation strategy. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Contact:
Jeffrey Gettleman
CCO, Bench IQ
Source: Bench IQ
