Legal-tech startup Jhana raises $1.6 M from Together Fund

Bengaluru-based legal AI startup Jhana has raised USD 1.6 million in its first round of funding led by Together Fund.The funding round also saw participation from Shyamal Anadkat - angel investor and member of the Applied AI team at OpenAI, Scott Davis - former executive of the cloud company VMWare, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar - founders of Razorpay, Cred’s Kunal Shah and others.Founded in 2022 by Harvard classmates Em McGlone, Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarthy, and Benjamin Hoffner-Brodsky, the startup has been beta-testing and selling its AI legal assistants to lawyers, firms, and in-house legal teams across India.