NEW YORK - Sep 18, 2025 (UTC) - Centari, the AI-powered deal insights platform trusted by AmLaw 25 and financial firms, announced it has raised $14 million in funding, including an oversubscribed Series A round. The round was led by Sentinel Global with participation from GTMfund, South Park Commons, Alt Capital, RiverPark Ventures, Recall Capital, and strategic partners in the fintech and legal industries.
Centari’s Deal Intelligence Platform inaugurates a new category of AI purpose-built for high-stakes transactions spanning M&A, investment management, and finance. The platform moves beyond the capabilities of generalized productivity tools relying on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or user-driven prompt engineering. Employing innovative orchestration methods and proprietary document processing, Centari’s Deal Reasoning Engine transforms complex transactional documents into structured insights with attorney-level accuracy, empowering firms to achieve superior outcomes in negotiations, pitches, and investment analyses.
According to industry reports, the funding includes $8.4 million gained through the Series A round, with the remaining portion from earlier funding. The New York-based startup will use the capital to invest in R&D and hiring to scale Centari’s suite of products for dealmakers. The company’s team includes former attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis, Davis Polk, Paul Hastings, and other noted firms.
“Generic AI products fall short when billions of dollars are on the line and precision is non-negotiable,” said Kevin Walker, CEO and founder of Centari and a former Paul Hastings M&A lawyer. “Our vision for Deal Intelligence is to empower firms to harness information on a scale that was never possible before, delivering rich insights to the right place at the right time to accelerate transactions.”
“At Sentinel Global we back category-leading teams who transform industries. Centari’s domain-specific intelligence in a massive market is exactly what drew us to lead this round,” said Jeremy Kranz, Managing Partner at Sentinel Global. “Centari is the first platform that actually thinks like an experienced deal lawyer, because it was built by an experienced deal team. Generic AI can draft emails, but can’t close deals. Other legal AI tools require constant prompting and still produce inconsistent results. Centari delivers attorney-level precision on billion-dollar transactions, automatically.”
Kranz’s previous investments include DoorDash, Coinbase, Zoom, and Affirm, demonstrating Sentinel Global’s track record in backing category-defining technology companies. The investment comes amid a growing interest in using generative AI to tap legal data and help lawyers gain deeper insights that inform new transactions.
“Our product-obsessed approach and commitment to precision and security has earned us the trust of leading law firms and investment institutions,” said Walker. “This funding allows us to scale our mission with an incredible group of partners.”
The funding represents one of a series of significant investments flowing into the legal technology sector, particularly for companies focused on leveraging AI. Centari differentiates itself by targeting the specific needs of deal professionals rather than offering generalized legal AI tools, addressing the unique requirements of high-stakes transactional work where precision and accuracy are paramount.
The company serves AmLaw 100 law firms and global investment firms, positioning itself as a specialized solution for the most complex and valuable transactions. The Deal Intelligence Platform enables deal teams to negotiate with confidence, accelerate closings, and achieve superior outcomes by providing structured insights from their intellectual capital at unprecedented scale.
About Centari
Based in New York, Centari is the Deal Intelligence Platform purpose-built for legal and financial professionals. Founded by a team of experienced attorneys and machine learning engineers, Centari’s proprietary Deal Reasoning Engine transforms complex transactional documents into strategic insights, enabling deal teams to negotiate with confidence, accelerate closings, and achieve superior outcomes. The company’s customers include AmLaw 100 and global investment firms.
Category: Legal Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital Tags: LegalTech, DealIntelligence, SeriesA, VentureCapital, M&A, LegalAI, EnterpriseAI, DocumentProcessing, Transactional
