--- title: "Harvey banked $550 million at $15.5 billion but left court dockets to PacerPro, so firms pay twice" description: "Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation in September; Legora matched the check at $8.8 billion on October 21. Court dockets, the record litigation runs on, still enter Harvey only through PacerPro, a private court-data company neither round priced." publisher: "The Inference" section: "Applications" published: 2026-10-29T15:43:22.871Z modified: 2026-10-29T15:43:22.871Z canonical: https://theinference.org/article/harvey-banked-550-million-at-15-5-billion-but-left-court-dockets-to-pacerpro-so-firms-pay-twice language: en keywords: "Harvey, Legal AI, Legal Tech, Venture Capital, Startups" --- # Harvey banked $550 million at $15.5 billion but left court dockets to PacerPro, so firms pay twice > Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation in September; Legora matched the check at $8.8 billion on October 21. Court dockets, the record litigation runs on, still enter Harvey only through PacerPro, a private court-data company neither round priced. ## Eleven connectors, no courtroom On October 21, 2026 [Harvey](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/harvey) [said its Connector Library had reached general availability](https://blockchain.news/news/harvey-connector-library-generally-available-legal-workflow-integrations): document managers iManage and NetDocuments, storage in Box, Google Drive and SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Slack, e-discovery in Everlaw, Datasite deal rooms, Docusign signatures, with write-back starting at the document managers [1]. Court dockets are not on the list. The docket arrives another way: [PacerPro](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/pacerpro), a private court-data company, pushes filings one way over its own API into Harvey's Vaults, PacerPro's team does the setup, and firm-wide history sync is still marked beta [2]. A firm running litigation on Harvey needs an active subscription to both [2]. ## Same check, higher price The plumbing shipped into a frenzied market. Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation on September 9, up from $8 billion in December [3]. On the day the library went live, [Legora](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/legora), its Sweden-based rival, [closed the same $550 million at $8.8 billion](https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/legal-ai-startup-legora-valued-88-billion-new-550-million-funding-round-2026-10-21/), led by Atreides Management, after $550 million at $5.55 billion in March [4]. Legora reports more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue [5], and one trade tally counts $2.9 billion of legaltech funding in the first nine months of 2026, with these two raises worth $1.1 billion of it [6]. The listed incumbent Thomson Reuters ships its own CoCounsel on Westlaw's case-law library, and Clio paid $1 billion for vLex's archive [3]. *Chart: **Two $550M rounds in a month: Harvey nearly doubled to $15.5B, Legora up 59%** Column chart of post-money valuations: Harvey at $8B in December 2025 and $15.5B in September 2026; Legora at $5.55B in March 2026 and $8.8B in October 2026* *Valuation at each round, in billions of dollars; the December 2025 Harvey figure is its then-current valuation. Sources: Reuters, 21 Oct 2026; The Sociable, 29 Sep 2026. [3][4]* ## The rented record under the multiple Harvey says [80% of the Am Law 100](https://theinference.org/article/harvey-sells-to-big-law-hires-22-of-its-lawyers-signs-iberdrola-for-300-seats), the hundred largest US firms, and five of the Fortune 10 use its platform, and on October 28 it [announced FedRAMP Class D certification](https://www.unite.ai/harvey-announces-fedramp-class-d-certification-for-federal-legal-work/), the high tier of the US federal cloud-security bar, hosted in Knox Systems' certified environment [7]. PacerPro, for its part, [claims 8 of the top 10 US firms](https://pacerpro.com/), more than 20 million filings from 1,000-plus courts over eleven years, and 99.7% retention: company figures, unaudited [8]. The valuation rests on litigation adoption, yet the curated library Harvey security-reviews [1] does not carry the litigation input. That record travels on PacerPro's pipe, under PacerPro's security program [2], and Harvey's own documentation notes that an external connector's operator controls what happens to the data afterward [1]. PacerPro owns the land under Harvey's litigation farm. ## Watch the next release notes The door swings both ways. Providers can apply to join the curated library, and Harvey already lets firms wire external connectors [1]. If Harvey builds or buys court data, the toll ends; until a docket connector ships, every litigation seat bills two subscriptions. The next Connector Library update, and any court-data name in it, is the tell. ## Takeaway Harvey's $15.5 billion valuation prices litigation adoption, but the court record enters only through PacerPro; until a docket connector ships, every litigation seat bills two subscriptions. ## Sources 1. [Blockchain.News, Harvey opens Connector Library for legal workflow integrations, 21 October 2026](https://blockchain.news/news/harvey-connector-library-generally-available-legal-workflow-integrations) 2. [PacerPro, Harvey AI Integration: Sync Court Dockets, accessed 29 October 2026](https://pacerpro.com/integrations/harvey) 3. [The Sociable, From contracts to courtrooms, here are 7 AI companies changing how law firms work, 29 September 2026](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/from-contracts-to-courtrooms-here-are-7-ai-companies-changing-how-law-firms-work/ar-AA2dd5MD) 4. [Reuters, Legal AI startup Legora valued at $8.8 billion in new $550 million funding round, 21 October 2026](https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/legal-ai-startup-legora-valued-88-billion-new-550-million-funding-round-2026-10-21/) 5. [Agente Lex, Harvey and Legora: 1.1 billion in one month, 27 October 2026](https://agentelex.es/en/legaltech-ai-startups/harvey-and-legora-1-1-billion-in-one-month/) 6. [Agente Lex, Legaltech and AI startups section, Legaltech funding in 2026: 2.9 billion dollars in nine months, 20 October 2026](https://agentelex.es/en/legaltech-ai-startups/) 7. [Unite.AI, Harvey Announces FedRAMP Class D Certification for Federal Legal Work, 28 October 2026](https://www.unite.ai/harvey-announces-fedramp-class-d-certification-for-federal-legal-work/) 8. [PacerPro, Court Data Automation for Law Firms, accessed 29 October 2026](https://pacerpro.com/) --- Harvey banked $550 million at $15.5 billion but left court dockets to PacerPro, so firms pay twice — The Inference. Canonical: https://theinference.org/article/harvey-banked-550-million-at-15-5-billion-but-left-court-dockets-to-pacerpro-so-firms-pay-twice