Eve, a startup with a software platform designed to help law firms operate more efficiently, today announced that it has closed a $103 million investment.

Spark Capital led the Series B round. It was joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures, which previously backed a $47 million round for Eve in January. The startup says that its customer base has more than tripled since that investment to more than 450 law firms.

Eve, officially Butler Labs Inc., uses artificial intelligence to automate repetitive tasks for the attorneys who use its platform. Those tasks include the process of reviewing case proposals from potential clients. According to Eve, its AI can review case documents to determine whether a claim has a realistic chance of leading to a favorable ruling. The company says that its platform saves up to 15 hours per week for customers by automating the process.

If a law firm decides to take on a case, it can use Eve to generate a summary of the associated documents. Some of the platform’s summarization features are geared toward medical litigation. According to Eve, its platform can extract key information from documents such as medical records and point out potentially inaccurate data.

In addition to reviewing existing documents, attorneys can use the platform to create new ones. Eve automatically generates documents based on templates and a law firm’s file archives. The platform can be configured to emulate the writing style of the attorney working on a case. 

Legal teams can use Eve to create demand letters. Those are documents that explain what steps a potential lawsuit defendant could take to avoid litigation. Additionally, Eve is capable of generating discovery requests, which are used to collect evidence from the defendant’s legal team. 

The company says that its platform also lends itself to processing inbound discovery requests. According to Eve, its AI can point out if an inbound discovery request is unnecessarily broad or would be too difficult to fulfill.

In May, the company updated its platform with a feature called Reasoning Mode. It uses reasoning models to automate tasks such as identifying inconsistencies between legal documents. The feature can also create a litigation roadmap for a newly launched case.

Eve offers its core AI capabilities alongside features that ease administration work for law firms. Last month, the company added a tool that speeds up the process of creating client invoices.

The company disclosed that its platform processes more than 200,000 cases annually. The company, which is now valued at more than $1 billion, will use the capital to grow its product, onboarding and customer support teams. 

“From first intake call to final judgment, AI should strengthen every stage of a case,” co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jay Madheswaran wrote in a blog post today. “That’s why the majority of our funding goes directly toward building the best team to support the best-in-class product for our customers.”

Eve is the latest in a series of legal technology startups to have raised nine-figure funding rounds since the start of the year. Filevine Inc., the developer of a competing case management platform, closed a $400 million investment last week. Eudia, which offers automation software for in-house legal teams, raised $105 million in February. 

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