Legalstart
French online legal services platform
Legalstart (legally known as Yolaw) is an online legal services platform designed to assist micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in managing their administrative, legal, and accounting procedures.
History
Yolaw was co-founded in 2012 by Pierre Aïdan (lawyer at the Paris and New York bars), Timothée Rambaud (engineer) and Stéphane Le Viet (entrepreneur). The commercial launch of legalstart.fr occurred in March 2014.
In 2016, Legalstart won BPI France's Digital Innovation Competition.
In April 2018, Legalstart acquired a stake in Legafrik, an African legaltech firm, to promote business creation within the OHADA zone.
In June 2018, Legalstart and Kandbaz, a specialist in business domiciliation, formed a partnership aimed at simplifying business creation in France.
A few months later, in November 2018, Legalstart launched an online accounting platform. In March 2019, Legalstart raised over €15 million from the ISAI fund.
In March 2021, the company extended its activity to streamline company's administrative and legal tasks by partnering with Infogreffe. This collaboration enabled the company to expand its range of services, from drafting company articles of association to entering legal formalities directly on the Infogreffe platform.
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