Semeris, a specialist in AI-driven legal document analysis for financial institutions, has raised $4.3m in a funding round led by Puma Growth Partners, a firm known for providing growth capital to small and medium-sized businesses.
The investment round was led by Puma Growth Partners, with participation from independent investors. The funding will support Semeris in expanding its platform and strengthening its sales team to meet the growing demand for AI-driven legal solutions in structured finance.
Founded in 2020 by Peter Jasko, former head of JPMorgan’s European CLO team, and Sam Daroczy, co-founder and former CEO of Verba Technologies, Semeris aims to revolutionise legal document analysis.
Semeris provides AI-powered tools that streamline legal review processes, reducing the time and cost associated with analysing complex financial documents. Its solution replaces manual review processes with an AI-enhanced system that delivers faster, more precise results while ensuring compliance with financial industry regulations. The company’s library includes over 5,000 structured finance transactions across various asset classes, such as Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs), Asset-Backed Securities (ABS), and Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS).
With this fresh capital, Semeris plans to expand beyond CLOs and ABS/MBS into other asset classes, including leveraged loans and private credit agreements. The company aims to enhance its AI-powered solutions to further optimise legal workflows for structured finance professionals, offering increased accuracy and reduced turnaround times for deal analysis.
Semeris CEO Peter Jasko said, “We’re thrilled to partner with Puma Growth Partners and independent investors as we embark on this exciting next chapter for Semeris.
“Their investment will accelerate our expansion beyond CLOs and ABS/MBS into other asset classes and document types, such as credit agreements in leveraged loans and private credit, equipping structured finance professionals with AI-powered tools that drastically reduce turnaround times and tackle challenges previously out of reach. With Puma’s support, we’re advancing our mission to revolutionise legal documentation, delivering superhuman powers, unmatched precision, and clarity, while paving the way for smarter, more efficient finance workflows.”
Puma Growth Partners investment director Henri Songeur commented: “This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for us to back an ambitious management team with a deep understanding of their customers’ user journeys and pain points when reviewing complex financial legal documents. Their previous experience leading investment desks in large financial institutions has been key to devising an innovative AI-led solution to address this issue. This is coupled with the experience they have in building, and then exiting, a business successfully. We also validated the product’s value proposition with their impressive client list which includes some of the world’s leading financial institutions who all reviewed Semeris highly.
“Semeris now has a great opportunity to scale the business, expand into new asset classes and offer new, and existing customers, a wider range of products and services. We look forward to supporting Peter, Sam and the wider Semeris team on delivering this growth.”
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