Falcon AI raises 1.5 million euros for its AI-native law firm from Belgium

Belgian startup Falcon AI has announced a 1.5 million euro pre-seed round led by Syndicate One, with participation from Stelena Capital, Greenpark Investment Partners, RDY Ventures and France's Source Ventures. The press release, dated in Ghent on October 1, 2026, presents it as one of the largest pre-seed rounds closed to date by a Belgian legaltech.

Falcon AI is the tech company behind Falcon Law, the law firm that delivers the legal services. The flow works like this: the platform does the first review of a contract and a qualified Falcon Law lawyer reviews and signs off every result before it goes back to the client, the same day. The service is billed as a fixed monthly fee, not by the hour: three published plans starting at 1,000 euros a month for up to six reviews and reaching 5,000 euros a month for high-volume teams, with no excess charges.

Who they are

The four founders, Quinten Vandermeulen, David Nguyen, Amaury Gérard and Rémy Bonnaffé, come from two worlds. Three of them spent six years building Mbrella, sold to D'Ieteren late last year, and they say the trigger was paying thousands of euros and waiting weeks for contracts they needed signed in days. Bonnaffé, a former Freshfields lawyer, founded Falcon Law and runs it as sole partner.

The round comes with a notable advisory hire: Wim Dejonghe, former global senior partner of Allen & Overy, today A&O Shearman. The company also names Cedric De Vleesschauwer, chief executive of Warren, as a second adviser.

Among its paying customers is Loop Earplugs, which moved from a trial phase to a contract. Its co-founder and chief executive, Dimitri O, explains in the release that speed outweighed price in the decision.

How the system works

Every engagement starts with a call of about 45 minutes to understand how the client company operates and what its risk appetite is. That conversation becomes the client's own legal playbook. After that, the client drops a contract into Slack or Microsoft Teams, the AI reviews it against that playbook (not against a generic checklist) and produces a plain-language summary with flagged risks and proposed changes, each one traceable to a reason. A lawyer with a first and last name reviews and signs off before delivery.

The company estimates the European market it wants to reach at 49 billion euros a year, SMEs that traditional law firms would have priced out, its own estimate built from Eurostat and UK government data. Its stated goal is to reach one million euros in annual recurring revenue in its first year.

The same pattern as Arceus and SmallClaims

Falcon AI follows the same pattern as the US firm Arceus, which announced 17 million dollars on the same October 1: a tech company delivering finished legal work, with real lawyers signing off, instead of selling software to law firms. Denmark's SmallClaims, with a 2 million euro seed round, applies the idea to small court claims. Falcon's difference lies in the explicit separation between the tech company and the law firm, and in its focus on European SMEs. Behind all these models you need reliable legal information: that is where infrastructure bets like the 13.5 million euro Series A by Pandektes operate.

This story is part of our legaltech startups and AI section, where we track launches, rounds and deals in the sector.

Sources and limits

The amount, the investors and the advisers appear in Falcon AI's official press release of October 1, 2026. The market figures, pricing plans, revenue targets and customer references are data provided by the company. The claim of being Europe's first AI-native law firm is a statement by the company itself that we have not independently verified.