Chariot Claims, a New York-based legal technology startup, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners to help consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy violations, hidden fees, and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel. The company works with law firms to identify potential cases, locate affected consumers, and collect information needed to seek compensation. The round brings the startup's total funding to $15.7 million, following a $3.6 million seed investment in April 2025 and an earlier pre-seed round.
Chariot typically receives more than 200,000 claim submissions per month and has taken on roughly 80 cases since shifting to its current business model just over a year ago, according to founder and CEO Zim Hang. The company has about 15 employees and is currently breaking even. Chariot's latest round comes amid a surge in investment across legal tech, with funding to the space hitting a record high last year at $4.6 billion, per Crunchbase data. So far this year, legal tech startups have pulled in more than $3 billion, putting the sector on pace to match or exceed the 2025 total. The company reviews a few hundred potential cases each month, tests ads for about 30 potential cases to gauge whether it can find consumers who may have a claim, then selects roughly 10 to pursue more extensively with its partner law firms.
Hang told Crunchbase News that his experience helping another founder build an app collecting information about class-action settlements revealed how challenging it can be for consumers to seek compensation from companies they believe wronged them. He discovered mass arbitration as a way to pursue individual claims when companies' contracts prevent customers from joining class actions, but realized relatively few law firms were set up to manage thousands of those claims at once. "It's just really inefficient for them to try to build workflows around 10,000 claimants or 100,000 claimants," Hang said. Chariot handles parts of that administrative work while its partner firms handle the legal claims, charging the firms flat service fees while they work on a contingency basis.
The company plans to spend the new funding primarily on hiring and product development, including AI tools to review cases and help determine whether consumers qualify to participate. Chariot is building AI tools to help review supporting information and determine whether a consumer has a claim, and it's developing tools to track changes in laws and court decisions that could affect whether a case can proceed. The startup plans to make the verification step easier by allowing users to connect their email accounts so its software can look for relevant documents, rather than asking consumers to fill out forms. Hang estimates that such improvements could help the company handle 10 times to 100 times its current claim volume. Mike Dodd, general partner at Silverton, told Crunchbase News via email that his firm was attracted to Chariot's vertical AI approach to working with law firms, describing it as "exciting and defensible" and noting "a business model that aligns capitalistic incentives with access to justice."
Not everyone welcomes Chariot's approach, however. Advertising for potential claimants has brought strong objections from some of the companies involved, with Chariot receiving cease-and-desist letters challenging, among other things, its use of company names and trademarks in ads. But Hang asserts that identifying those businesses is necessary to reach people who used their products or services, adding "We want to make unethical unprofitable." His broader goal is to make alleged consumer abuses more costly for businesses, reasoning that if more affected customers pursue compensation, companies will have a stronger financial incentive to change those practices. The structure may prompt companies to weigh enforcement costs against policy adjustments, though the balance between deterrence and litigation overhead will likely shape how widely the model scales beyond early adopters.