The usual behind a paywall stuff – as yet unable to find this elsewhere- their site as you’ll know still exists as some sort of bizarre archive to pointlessness. But the money never seems to end when it comes to further bickering in the courts..
If you ask Google AI who is currently bankrolling them it can only give the standard historical record so the question is
Where is the money coming from?
Google AI
ROSS Intelligence is currently ceased operations and has not received new funding since its 2017 Series A round. The company announced its closure in December 2020 due to the high legal costs associated with a copyright infringement lawsuit from Thomson Reuters.
Prior to its closure, the company was bankrolled by several prominent venture capital firms and individual investors:
Primary Institutional Investors
- iNovia Capital: Led both the $4.3 million Seed round and the $8.7 million Series A round.
- Y Combinator: Provided early backing through its core program and the Y Combinator Continuity Fund.
- Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund: Participated in the Series A funding round.
- Real Ventures: A Canadian seed-stage firm that contributed to both major funding rounds.
- Dentons’ NextLaw Labs: The legal tech accelerator of global law firm Dentons.
Other Notable Backers
- Kima Ventures: A high-volume seed-stage investor.
- Hedgewood & Griver Capital Group: Participated in the company’s initial Seed round.
- ACE & Company: An investment group that joined early funding stages.
- Individual Investors: High-profile tech figures including Nicolas Pinto (Apple’s deep learning lead) and Diego Basch (former LinkedIn Director of Engineering).
Current Status (2026)
ROSS Intelligence officially ceased operations on January 1, 2021. In February 2025, a Delaware federal court ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters, finding that ROSS had improperly used Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes to train its AI system. Some of its founders have since moved on to new ventures, such as Bench IQ, which is backed by firms like Maple and Haystack.
Ross Intelligence urges US appeals court to undo Thomson Reuters’ win in copyright case
MLex Summary: Ross Intelligence filed a reply brief in support of a US appeals court reversing a judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement of certain Westlaw headnotes…
In 25 years of doing this i thought i would never an legal info provider as distasteful as the original duopoly and on that road i’ve met and dealt with some real arseholes but they never compared to Wexis .. but ROSS and whoever or whatever they are now have hit the big time an wankerdom
