*Ennis woman Michelle Cotter

A CLARE businesswoman’s start-up company has raised a whopping €1.4 million in pre-seed funding.

Juritas, a Stockholm-based contract intelligence company, was founded this year by Ennis woman Michelle Cotter.

The former St Flannan’s student who has a BA from Mary Immaculate College and an MBS in International Entrepreneurship Management from UL, has worked in the tech industry for over a decade.

Now living in Stockholm, Sweden, Michelle’s new company has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding. Passion Capital led the round, with participation from Blackwood, Araya Ventures, Baseline, Angel Invest and the byFounders Angel Collective.

Michelle previously held leadership roles at legal AI company Legora, Revolut and Epidemic Sound.

Juritas is a contract intelligence company that helps businesses find and act on the value in their contracts after signature, from unclaimed discounts and supplier commitments to renewals and obligations.

The new funding will grow the engineering team in Stockholm, speed up product development, and build the enterprise-grade security and infrastructure large customers need.

“I’ve sat across the table from some of the world’s largest organisations, and I’ve seen the same pattern every time: teams negotiate hard, sign, and move on. Yet everything they need to know is already theirs, written into their own contracts. That knowledge just rarely reaches the right person at the right time.

“My ambition is for Juritas to become the intelligence layer safeguarding the value in every contract a business signs,” said Michelle Cotter, Founder and CEO of Juritas.

“Contracts are the operating system of every business, yet almost no company knows what’s really in theirs. It’s one of the largest blind spots in enterprise software. Michelle has seen first-hand what it takes to build a category-defining European company, and she’s bringing that ambition to a problem every enterprise has. We’re thrilled to back her from the very start,” said Will Orde, Partner at Passion Capital.

Learn more at juritas.com.