KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- Brazil’s legal system is overwhelmed by volume, burdened by close to 80 million active lawsuits—a figure eight times higher than in the United States, especially in labour-related claims costing companies billions annually.
In response to this crisis, Brazil’s youngest-ever practising lawyer, Mateus Costa-Ribeiro, has launched Enter, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered litigation management platform that just raised US$35 million in Series A funding at a US$350 million valuation, marking the largest AI-focused investment in Latin America to date. (US$1=RM4.21)
Enter's round was co-led by Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital, signalling growing global investor confidence in Latin America’s enterprise AI potential.
Costa-Ribeiro, co-founded Enter after graduating from Harvard Law, passing the New York Bar at 20, and leaving a full scholarship at Stanford’s MBA programme. Alongside him are co-founders Michael Mac-Vicar, former Chief Technology Officer of Wildlife Studios, and Henrique Vaz, a Harvard peer and ex-Chief Marketing Officer at Wildlife.
“We have built a platform that already delivers direct cost savings for the largest enterprises in Latin America. Solving this in Brazil, the most complex legal ecosystem in the world, proves that our technology can scale globally,” said Costa-Ribeiro in a statement.
Enter’s AI agents support lawyers across the full lifecycle of a lawsuit, such as fraud detection, settlement recommendations, drafting defences, and interpreting rulings. Human lawyers then review and refine the AI’s output, hence producing faster and stronger results.
In 2025 alone, Enter expects to process more than 250,000 new cases, a figure that, to put it in perspective, is almost double the number of civil lawsuits filed each year in Japan.
Companies that rely on its platform earned higher win rates in court and millions of dollars in savings, with some of the clients including Brazil’s largest banks, such as Itaú and Santander, retail giants like Mercado Livre and global technology leaders like Nubank and Airbnb.
Enter is now expanding into complex labour disputes and developing predictive AI to recommend the most effective evidence, precedents and arguments, redefining how AI shapes legal strategy.
-- BERNAMA
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