{"id":827744,"date":"2026-11-08T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/827744\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T04:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:42:11","slug":"clare-womans-start-up-raises-e1-4-million-in-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/827744\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare woman&#8217;s start-up raises \u20ac1.4 million in seed funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themonkswell.ie\/\" aria-label=\"Monks Well HPA 2910\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Monks-Well-HPA-2910-scaled.png\" alt=\"\"   class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1517\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Ennis woman Michelle Cotter<\/p>\n<p>A CLARE businesswoman\u2019s start-up company has raised a whopping \u20ac1.4 million in pre-seed funding.<\/p>\n<p>Juritas, a Stockholm-based contract intelligence company, was founded this year by Ennis woman Michelle Cotter.<\/p>\n<p>The former St Flannan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Now living in Stockholm, Sweden, Michelle\u2019s new company has raised \u20ac1.4 million in pre-seed funding. Passion Capital led the round, with participation from Blackwood, Araya Ventures, Baseline, Angel Invest and the byFounders Angel Collective.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle previously held leadership roles at legal AI company Legora, Revolut and Epidemic Sound.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve sat across the table from some of the world\u2019s largest organisations, and I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ambition is for Juritas to become the intelligence layer safeguarding the value in every contract a business signs,\u201d said Michelle Cotter, Founder and CEO of Juritas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContracts are the operating system of every business, yet almost no company knows what\u2019s really in theirs. It\u2019s 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\u2019s bringing that ambition to a problem every enterprise has. We\u2019re thrilled to back her from the very start,\u201d said Will Orde, Partner at Passion Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/juritas.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">juritas.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gleneaglekillarney.ie\/pre-christmas-craicers.htm\" aria-label=\"Gleneagle \u2018Christmas Craicers\u2019 online advert 1080 x 500 Oct \u201926 (Animated) 2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Gleneagle-Christmas-Craicers-online-advert-1080-x-500-Oct-26-Animated-2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*Ennis woman Michelle Cotter A CLARE businesswoman\u2019s start-up company has raised a whopping \u20ac1.4 million in pre-seed funding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[554,84,4203,271801,271802,27985,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-827744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-juritas","tag-michelle-cotter","tag-pre-seed-funding","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}