ayfie has attracted global media interest.
Below is a selection of recent press.
- October 1, 2020
Going Public in the Pandemic -
Ari Kaplan, an attorney, author, and leading legal industry analyst, spoke with Johannes Stiehler, the CEO of ayfie Group. They discussed the company’s mission, how the appeal of linguistic technology at law firms and corporate legal departments has evolved, and ayfie’s listing on the Merkur Market in Oslo in July of 2020.
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- October 1, 2020
- September 8, 2020
ayfie Buys Enterprise Search Co. Haive, Follows Public Listing -
Is this a big deal? For Ayfie, yes, as it shows perhaps what its wider strategy is now, i.e. building out a platform for law firms and corporates. Also, as mentioned, although this deal was in Norway it would be underestimating things to assume that its impact will only be felt locally. And, Ayfie also clearly has business growth on its mind. Under the new management of Stiehler we can expect more growth steps to come.
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- September 8, 2020
- August 6, 2020
Big data analytics startup Ayfie lists its shares for public trading -
NLP-driven document analysis company, ayfie, has listed its shares for public trading – an unusual step for a small legal tech startup that is not part of a larger company.
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- August 6, 2020
- August 5, 2020
ayfie Lists Shares in Rare Legal Tech Move -
AL TV News report – ayfie‘s new CEO, Johannes Stiehler, speaks about the move to list the doc analysis company’s shares.
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- August 5, 2020
- July 9, 2020
Newcomer continues upward -
ayfie in particular has had a very good start to the stock market life. After the first two days, the stock had risen 49.5 percent, and Thursday the upturn continues.
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- July 9, 2020
- July 7, 2020
Success on the listing of the ayfie Group -
On Tuesday morning, text analysis company ayfie Group was listed on Merkur Market. At the time of writing, the stock is trading at 2.48, giving a market value of NOK 263 million.
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- July 7, 2020
- June 25, 2020
Spetalen, Haudemann and Opsahl are listed on ayfie -
Øystein Stray Spetalen grabbed hold of the search and artificial intelligence company ayfie. After a restart, he is rushing to the stock exchange with pricing of 160 million.
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- June 25, 2020
- April 16, 2020
The Barriers to Adoption of Legal Technology – What They are and How we Overcome Them -
Technology adoption in the legal industry has certainly grown, but there are still barriers to total adoption. To understand those barriers we must ask and answer 3 questions about technological changes and adoption: Why do industries change, how do they chance, and most importantly how do they feel about that change?
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- April 16, 2020
- April 7, 2020
Learning About Technology the Hard Way -
Law firms who have yet to make the jump into newer technologies and telework options now find themselves with a new reality that can cause inefficiency and risk. There are simple areas that are taking time to adopt like using video conferencing, chat, and online document libraries as well as the larger issues of fending off security breaches as lawyers are all forced to work from home. Having to learn all these things at once is daunting and doing it remotely is almost impossible if a lawyer does not have a foundation to build on.
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- April 7, 2020
- February 4, 2020
10 promising Norway-based startups to watch in 2020 -
Norway is not only known for its stunning natural beauty (think glaciers, natural fjords and spectacular Northern Lights), but is often cited for its high standard of living, having taken the number 1 spot for best place to live in the last UN’s Human Development report. Having scanned the local ecosystem for its most promising talent, here is our top pick of Norwegian startups to keep an eye on in 2020.
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- February 4, 2020
- January 15, 2020
The Need For White Box AI In Legal Work – ayfie’s Johannes Stiehler -
In the legal space we can’t afford the luxury of not understanding why something happens because you might have to defend it in court, or you might have to understand why it works in a certain way and potentially correct it using human input.
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- January 15, 2020
- December 18, 2019
Artificial Lawyer Readers’ Predictions For 2020 -
In 2020 the legaltech sector will see continued consolidation, whether by acquisition or by smaller start-ups collaborating amongst themselves to pull their point solutions into an integrated platform. Overall the legal sector is still struggling with technology adoption and training machine learning algorithms.
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- December 18, 2019
- November 26, 2019
ANALYSIS: Legal Tech’s Gender Diversity Problem -
“Legal tech, from a services perspective and from a subject matter expert perspective, has been a place where the marginalized have gone to live. Women, minorities, basically people who didn’t fit the mold, moved over to tech,” Jeanne Somma, legal insights executive and counsel at ayfie, a search and text analytics solutions company, said.
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- November 26, 2019
- October 29, 2019
5 Challenges Facing Startups in the Legal Tech Market and Beyond -
... identify documents within an organization that hold personally identifiable information—a function echoed in other forms in software offered by competing tech startup ayfie ...
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- October 29, 2019
- November 4, 2019
Future Lawyer Week USA, 20-21 Nov, New York -
... And finally, there will of course be plenty of legal tech companies there. Sponsors at present include, among others: Bryter, ayfie, Neota Logic, LawGeex, ContractPodAi, iManage, Luminance, Tessian, and D2LT. ...
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- November 4, 2019
- October 23, 2019
Oasis Adds ayfie Inspector, an Advanced Linguistic Analysis Application, to Its Robust Suite of eDiscovery Technology -
Oasis announces the adoption of ayfie’s Inspector, bringing ayfie’s powerful AI solution to its extensive network of vendors and service providers. The Oasis/ayfie partnership furthers both companies’ role in revolutionizing the use of technology in discovery by empowering eDiscovery practitioners to leverage cutting edge technology to solve the complicated problems unique to discovery.
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- October 23, 2019
- October, 14 2019
Legal Innovators: Hot Panels, Top Insights + Great Networking -
... Artificial Lawyer also spoke to Stiehler during one of the breaks and asked him to elaborate. He said: ‘AI will never in the foreseeable future act like an actual human being because there are so many things that human beings are very good at [like] creativity, creatively connecting context, prior knowledge they have about the world … and AI just [misses] that context, that bigger picture. ...
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- October, 14 2019
- September 17, 2019
Lineal licenses ayfie's linguistic technology to supercharge eDiscovery -
Lineal, who provides Digital Forensics, Cyber Security and eDiscovery services, began using ayfie's sophisticated big text analytics platform last month to improve their technology assisted review process for clients. The partnership allows Lineal to benefit from ayfie's deep integration with the review platform Relativity as ayfie's technology is driving various functionality within Relativity such as entity extraction, email threading, and predictive coding. ...
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- September 17, 2019
- September 21, 2019
eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments in Q3 2019 -
Since beginning to track the number of publicly highlighted merger, acquisition, and investment (M&A+I) events in the eDiscovery ecosystem, ComplexDiscovery has noted approximately 400 M&A+I events between November 2001 and today. ...
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- September 21, 2019
- September 19, 2019
eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments in Q3 2019 -
Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t – gleaned from recent publication. ...
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- September 19, 2019
- September 19, 2019
ILTACON 2019 Wrap Up -
The 4-day conference brought together leaders, managers, and decision-making legal technologists from small to large-sized law firms, corporate and government law departments, academia, and the G100 firms to discover and evolve successful legal operation strategies for today’s transforming legal industry. ...
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- September 19, 2019
- September 17, 2019
Lineal licenses ayfie’s linguistic technology to “supercharge” eDiscovery -
London-headquartered litigation and cybersecurity support provider Lineal has begun licensing ayfie’s text analytics engine Inspector to improve their technology-assisted review process. Lineal has been using ayfie for around a month. ...
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- September 17, 2019
- September 17, 2019
Lineal licenses ayfie's linguistic technology to supercharge eDiscovery -
Lineal is delighted to announce it has licensed ayfie's linguistic technology to enhance their offerings. The partnership allows Lineal to benefit from ayfie's deep integration with the review platform Relativity as ayfie's technology is driving various functionality within Relativity such as entity extraction, email threading, and predictive coding. ...
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- September 17, 2019
- September 16, 2019
At $1.2 Billion, 2019 Is A Record Year for Legal Tech Investments — And It’s Only September -
For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.2 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end. ...
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- September 16, 2019
- September 16, 2019
At $1.2 Billion, 2019 Is A Record Year for Legal Tech Investments — And It’s Only September -
For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.2 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end. ...
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- September 16, 2019
- September 10, 2019
Fenwick Elliott Picks ayfie’s Computational Linguistic Tech for Knowledge Discovery -
Construction and energy law firm Fenwick Elliott is working with text analytics provider ayfie to enhance its knowledge discovery capabilities, in what is an important client win for the tech company as it targets expansion in the legal sector. ayfie’s tech is based upon computational linguistics. The UK law firm will be using ayfie’s Locator for Knowledge Discovery. ...
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- September 10, 2019
- September 6, 2019
Legal Tech Startups' Challenge: Looking for the New in a Post-Novelty World -
For example, the legal tech company ayfie offers a software suite that uses a combination of text analytics and linguistics-based information retrieval to filter unstructured data sets for PII or other relevant items. ...
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- September 6, 2019
- August 16, 2019
With $10 Million Investment, ayfie Eyes Expansion Across Border and Industries -
Earlier this week, analytics company ayfie announced that it had raised $10 million in funding with an eye towards strengthening its business profile within the global marketplace, which includes building out its North American commercial team in Denver.
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- August 16, 2019
- August 16, 2019
ayfie has raised $10 million in funding to accelerate growth and vertical expansion -
ayfie Group, a leading provider for advanced big text analytics solutions, announced funding round to accelerate its growth and extend its product offerings building on its reach in the legal tech sector and financial tech markets. This is the second investment round after the initial funding in June 2017.
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- August 16, 2019
- August 16, 2019
AI Doc Review Company ayfie Raises $10 million -
ayfie Group, which is focused on text analytics solutions, has announced a $10m funding round to accelerate its growth and extend its product offerings. This is the second investment round after the initial $8m funding in June 2017.
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- August 16, 2019
- August 16, 2019
Predictive search and text analytics startup ayfie gets $10m funding injection -
Congrats to the ayfie team on its latest funding round of $10m to spur growth in North America. ... Equally important, ayfie continues to release innovative adaptations of its products: ayfie Inspector and ayfie Locator.
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- August 16, 2019
- July 17, 2019
Digital assistants – why is being smart so hard? -
Interacting with computers has always been clunky and indirect, and today’s digital assistants are no different. They misunderstand, misinterpret and malfunction. But why is it so hard to make this most promising way of interacting with a machine work? The answer lies in the interaction between the different modules required for a smart assistant.
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- July 17, 2019
- June 17, 2019
Inertia is not an option -
Johannes Stiehler, CTO at another Eagle Lab LawTech resident ayfie, reminded Future Lawyer Week that ‘robots don’t get bored’. ayfie’s AI-powered document processing and content extraction software aggregates and visualises data to present complex information quickly and clearly. Intelligent automation is used to decide how to analyse and present the data. But Stiehler emphasises that AI is not foolproof – it takes on boring tasks to enable humans to focus on the important ones.
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- June 17, 2019
- June 3, 2019
KM – A Growing AI Battleground, As ayfie Bags New Client -
AI company, ayfie, which handles text search and analytics, has bagged a new law firm client for its KM-focused ‘Locator‘ application, as interest in tapping tools to reveal internal knowledge grows across the market. In this case, ayfie has bagged SANDS, a top Norwegian law firm and the third it has picked up in this Nordic country. SANDS will use Locator initially in its dispute resolution team to help break down data silos across the firm, surface knowledge and identify connections between recorded insights.
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- June 3, 2019
- June 3, 2019
ayfie signs customer agreement with Norwegian business law firm SANDS -
ayfie, a leading provider for legal tech software solutions, today signed a customer agreement with SANDS, a full-service law firm with leading expertise across all areas of business law. ayfie Locator for knowledge discovery will accelerate SANDS projects by making internal and external information easy to find and instantly accessible for teams through a natural approach to searching and viewing knowledge distributed throughout the company.
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- June 3, 2019
- May 21, 2019
Thommessen announces partnership with legal tech software provider -
Thommessen recently announced a new partnership with ayfie, a pioneering global software provider for “big text” analytics. ayfie Locator for knowledge discovery will pull Thommessen’s internal data into a Universal Index™, normalize and structure it, and turn it into an expertise knowledge base for the lawyers.
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- May 21, 2019
- May 21, 2019
Norwegian: Kort vei fra idé til prototype -
Thommessen-advokat Katinka Ranberg trekker frem ayfie, et slags Google tilpasset advokater, som et av firmaets fortrinn i teknologi-satsningen. Ranberg håper en uredd innovasjonskultur, og et tett samarbeid mellom unge advokater og digitalavdelingen, vil sikre dem årets talentpris.
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- May 21, 2019
- April 29, 2019
Legal Tech Trends Report 2019 -
A new Legal Tech trends report was recently published on basis of a survey conducted by the legal industry software company ayfie amongst legal tech experts worldwide from December 2018 to February 2019. The report shows some interesting facts about the status and most important trends on the legal tech developments.
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- April 29, 2019
- March 27, 2019
Market Split On If AI Tools Needed to Compete in 2019 – ayfie Report -
A new survey on legal tech trends by text analytics company, ayfie, has found that 50% of respondents believe law firms will need to embrace AI tools to remain competitive in 2019. ... The finding is one of several insights from the ayfie Legal Tech Trends Report 2019, which interviewed a small, but indicative sample of 22 experts, including CIOs, CEOs, lawyers and legal tech consultants, to gather their views.
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- March 27, 2019
- April 15, 2019
ayfie Announces Strategic Partnership With Top Law Firm Thommessen -
ayfie, a pioneering global software provider for “big text” analytics, is pleased to announce its latest partnership with Thommessen, one of the largest law firms in Norway.
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- April 15, 2019
- March 27, 2019
ayfie Adds Lawyer to Management As It Expands Legal Market Push -
Text analytics company, ayfie, has hired US lawyer Jeanne Somma for the newly created role of Legal Insights Executive and Counsel, as part of a wider drive to engage with law firms globally. The creation of a new legally-focused role is another sign of how seriously ayfie is now going after clients in this market.
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- March 27, 2019
- March 8, 2019
AI Co. ayfie Offers Mortgage Doc Analysis, Links With FinTech Platform -
One question that often comes up is: why don’t the multiple types of businesses involved in the huge market for mortgages make use of AI data extraction techniques to speed up the process? After all, if there was ever a need for more efficiency that would benefit a huge number of people, then it’s here. ... AI company, ayfie, which has a strong focus on detailed data extraction and is ramping up its work in the legal sector, has just announced a partnership with a US financial technology provider, Alpha Modus, to power contract analytics for the mortgage industry.
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- March 8, 2019
- March 4, 2019
Artificial Intelligence in eDiscovery -
Rob Wescott, Chief Strategy Officer at ayfie added “the growth of data sets in E-Discovery continues to outpace budgets and human resources that can be applied to a matter.”
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- March 4, 2019
- March 7, 2019
Alpha Modus Signs with ayfie to Launch Mortgage Analytics with the Power of ayfie AI -
Best-In-Class “Big Text” Analytics Solution ayfie Will Power Contract Analytics for the Assure Platform to Drive Efficiency in the Mortgage Industry.
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- March 7, 2019
- March 6, 2019
Alpha Modus partners with ayfie for mortgage contract analytics -
Software company ayfie has signed a licensing agreement with Alpha Modus, a financial technological provider, to power mortgage-related contract analytics.
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- March 6, 2019
- January 31, 2019
Machine Learning Disrupting the Law Industry -
As companies continue their journey to digital transformation, they’re increasingly adding artificial intelligence and machine learning to their toolbox. Today, the law industry is facing the same disruption as ai and machine learning is transforming the legal profession in many ways. In this conversation with Rob Wescott, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at ayfie, he explains how machine learning aids lawyers in their jobs, the limitations of AI in law and the wider opportunities that exist.
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- January 31, 2019
- January 30, 2019
ayfie to provide groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence workflows for the Relativity® ecosystem -
ayfie, a leading software company for information retrieval and big text analytics, today announced the launch of ayfie Inspector for Relativity® with Continuous Active Learning methods (CAL). ayfie CAL is powered by SentioAI™ CAL Predictive Analytics & Sentio Maestro™ model-based quality control software.
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- January 30, 2019
- January 30, 2019
ayfie to provide groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence workflows for the Relativity® ecosystem -
ayfie, a leading software company for information retrieval and big text analytics, today announced the launch of ayfie Inspector for Relativity® with Continuous Active Learning methods (CAL). ayfie CAL is powered by SentioAI™ CAL Predictive Analytics & Sentio Maestro™ model-based quality control software.
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- January 30, 2019
- January 15, 2019
Hey Siri, When Will Voice Assistants Improve? -
Natural Language Processing (NLP), the tech behind Voice Assistants, is still evolving. We find ourselves frustrated with Siri and Alexa when they misinterpret our commands, but the future for NLP and Voice Assistants looks great nonetheless.
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- January 15, 2019
- January 15, 2019
Norwegian: Legal tech: For BAHR Leap er ikke tech-utvikling kun ett produkt, men en fulltidsjobb -
Da advokatfirmaet BAHR bestemte seg for å satse på teknologi, etablerte de like gjerne et eget datterselskap med navnet BAHR Leap. Her dedikerer de ansatte hver eneste dag til innovasjon og nytenkning.
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- January 15, 2019
- December 15, 2018
Law and Word Order: NLP in Legal Tech -
The law has language at its heart, so it’s not surprising that software that operates on natural language has played a role in some areas of the legal profession for a long time. But the last few years have seen an increased interest in applying modern techniques to a wider range of problems, so this post looks at how natural language processing is being used in the legal sector today.
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- December 15, 2018
- December 11, 2018
Norwegian: Kunstig intelligens kan gi mer effektiv saksbehandling -
I alle organisasjoner brukes mye tid til å finne frem i arkivert kunnskap og informasjon. Kunstig intelligens innehar egenskaper som gjør at man kan redusere denne tidsbruken, og frigjøre ressurser til bedre saksbehandling og andre viktige oppgaver, skriver Truls Baklid.
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- December 11, 2018
- November 15, 2018
3 Industries That Will Be Disrupted by Natural Language Processing -
You may have heard the phrase “Natural Language Processing (NLP)” in our modern dialogue on technology. As a definition, NLP is a field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) used to understand and analyze human language. It recognizes human linguistics patterns, can interpret natural language and extract specific data points from large amounts of unstructured data.
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- November 15, 2018
- May 28, 2018
Norwegian: Landet søkeavtale med BAHR
- May 28, 2018
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