Aerial

Sorting through contracts, cap tables and corporate records before an investor asks for them is slow work, and Aerial is built to take most of it off a startup's plate.

Aerial is a legal document management platform that uses machine learning to organize company documents and prepare them for due diligence.

It gives startups a structured data room, so files sit in an order that investors and lawyers can follow without a long back and forth.

The idea is fewer legal red flags surfacing late and easier work with outside counsel, since everyone looks at the same organized set of documents.

Aerial also covers contract review, document extraction and knowledge management, which makes it more than a simple file store.

Pricing is freemium, with paid plans starting at 2, and the free tier is built for early-stage founders who have raised less than $2M.

Expect costs to rise as your company grows.

Because the document sorting relies on machine learning, new users may need some time to learn how it works before it feels natural.