Nvidia has placed another piece in its expanding AI empire. NVentures, the company’s corporate venture capital arm, has invested in Legora—reportedly its first move into legal AI. The Swedish-born legal tech startup, which uses AI to help lawyers streamline their work, competes directly with U.S. rival Harvey. Alongside Atlassian and other new financial backers, NVentures joined Legora’s cap table as part of a $50 million Series D extension, coming just a month after the startup’s $550 million Series D round. In the interim, this Y Combinator alum crossed the $100 million mark in annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a milestone that helped push its post-money valuation to $5.6 billion.

That valuation brings Legora closer to Harvey’s, which hit $11 billion last month when Sequoia doubled down on its investment. Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners, Elad Gil, Matt Miller’s Evantic, and Kleiner Perkins also joined that round. Legora, too, has backing from high-profile VCs, but it places even greater emphasis on the marquee names it has secured as clients, including Bird & Bird, Cleary Gottlieb, and Linklaters. According to the company, the platform it launched just 18 months ago is now used by more than 1,000 law firms and in-house legal teams across 50 markets.

Harvey has a strong presence in this area as well. It claims 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations as customers, ranging from global law firms like Hengeler Mueller and Latham & Watkins to corporate legal teams at companies such as T-Mobile and Bridgewater. With global leadership as the ultimate goal, the Harvey versus Legora rivalry is one they intend to fight on each other’s home turf. Legora has opened multiple offices worldwide, with the U.S. as a key focus for expansion. Conversely, Harvey is pushing into Europe. With ample capital on both sides, the battle has shifted to mindshare. Not long after Winston Weinberg’s company Harvey signed a brand partnership with actor Gabriel Macht—who plays a high-powered lawyer in the TV series *Suits*—Legora launched an advertising campaign featuring movie star Jude Law, under the slogan “Law just got more attractive.”

Both companies may be wise to invest heavily in marketing. Rivalry aside, they are built on top of large language models created by AI giants that could eventually become their competitors. When Anthropic released a legal plugin for Claude not long ago, several publicly traded legal software companies saw their stocks drop. Naturally, Legora CEO Max Junestrand says he isn’t concerned. “Foundation models are improving quickly, but the real value is in how they’re applied,” he wrote in a statement. The startup also plays on FOMO among its target users, stating that “the legal teams that embed AI effectively today will shape how the industry evolves.”

NVentures’ investment also signals that Legora may have enough of a moat to protect itself from model makers and its larger rival. However, Nvidia is known for hedging its bets—after all, it invested in both Anthropic and OpenAI before deciding it had probably seen enough.