After a while, Danae Shell was tired of hearing the same story again and again.
“Something bad happened with someone at work, and the story always ended the same way,” she said Techcrunch. “They just left because something else was incredibly complex and expensive.”
You don’t have to look far to notice that legal recourse feels so discouraging and complex for many people that many just don’t try it. Even for someone with a comfortable tech job, the prospect of going against his company is discouraging.
This disturbed Shell so much that she started Valla in 2022 to make employees more accessible.
The company focuses on labor law, and since its introduction, more than 12,000 employees have successfully submitted complaints against employers and negotiated settlements.
“The basic thesis of Valla was:” If we can create tools with which someone can submit your tax return from your cell phone, we can certainly create something that can help you manage your own legal problem, “said Shell.
With the Valla platform, users can collect their own evidence, generate documents and then speak to right -wing experts, which they “coach” through what the legal process looks for every phase of their case. According to Shell, a user can keep an eye on a continuous problem at work, create a tribunal claim and then buy a coaching package to prepare for the provisional hearing.
Like almost every other startup, Valla Ai uses to optimize the transfer of knowledge. “The gena engine in our platform acts as a legal secretary in the background,” said Shell. “Everything happens when he informs the trainer about the case, records notes and actions during each calls and records all administrators and memories in the course of the case.”
Investors seem to like what they see at Valla: Today the company said that it led £ 2 million (approx. 2.7 million US dollars) Saatgut round. Active partners and portfolio ventures as well as the return of investors techstart and resolution Foundation also invested.
According to Shell, Valla started generative AI in early 2023 and matched the early traction of her product, which helped investors recognize the potential of their product.
The company will use fresh capital to increase marketing, build relationships with employee unions and insurers and to build more AI functions within the platform. According to labor law, Shell hopes that the company will hope to extend into low claims and tenancy.
“Then we will spread to other geographies,” she said. “We are already looking for opportunities in the USA and Europe.”