Chamelio raises $26M Series A for AI in-house legal agents

Chamelio, an AI-native platform for in-house legal teams, announced a $26 million Series A led by Entrée Capital to build agents that execute routine legal workflows rather than only storing contracts.

FINANCE desk — legal AI money is shifting from “search the PDF” tools to agents that actually run the in-house workflow.

What the company says the product does. Chamelio calls itself an AI-native platform for in-house legal teams. AI-native means it was built around AI from the start, not a chat box bolted onto an old tool. In-house means the lawyers who work inside a company, not an outside law firm. The release says the platform manages and executes the full contract path, from drafting and negotiation to approvals, obligations, and later legal workflows. Customers can run routine, low-risk work on their own, or keep a lawyer in the loop where a person should still look. The release says the software handles routine tasks and escalates only the edge cases that need human judgment. File that pitch as the company’s. This desk did not use the product.

The old software it says it is replacing. Contract lifecycle management, or CLM, is software that mainly stores contracts and tracks the steps around them. The release says most in-house teams still rely on legacy CLM built to store contracts, not to analyze them or act on them. Chamelio’s line is that its system is trained on legal actions and can do the work: it drafts from a company’s own contracts, reviews and negotiates terms, routes requests, manages obligations, and runs multistep workflows. “Legal action model” is the company’s name for that system. This filing does not turn the name into a technical blueprint.

Who founded it. The release says Chamelio was founded in 2024 by Alex Zilberman and Gal Lellouche, alongside former general counsel Gil Banyas. The photo caption names the roles, left to right: Alex Zilberman, chief executive; Gil Banyas, chief operating officer; Gal Lellouche, chief technology officer. CTech, an independent Israeli business site, adds biographies the release does not print. Zilberman previously held leadership roles at Pagaya and was chief operating officer and a co-founder of AnyVision. Banyas has 15 years of legal experience, including as general counsel at AnyVision. Lellouche previously founded an AI company acquired by Sage, where he later held senior AI roles. CTech also says AnyVision made headlines for technological breakthroughs and for a series of public controversies. CTech does not list those controversies. This filing does not invent them. CTech calls Chamelio an Israeli startup. The release is datelined New York. File both. This desk did not pick a headquarters the pages left unstated.

The growth line does not match across pages, so both stay. The PR Newswire subhead says that since its seed round five months ago, Chamelio’s ARR has grown 4x. ARR means annual recurring revenue: the yearly value of current subscriptions if they keep paying. It is not an audited profit number. CTech says the company said annual recurring revenue has grown fourfold since its seed round eight months ago. Five months and eight months are different clocks. 4x and fourfold are the same multiple, printed on two pages. Do not average the clocks into a third date. The customer list is the company’s, and the last name is spelled two ways. The release says hundreds of customers, including Wiz, monday.com, Socure, AppsFlyer, and Wonderful.ai. CTech repeats that list and writes Wonderful, without the .ai. File both spellings. This desk did not count the customers or see the books.

Where the money goes, and what it plugs into. The release says the company will use the funding to further develop its proprietary legal action model, grow its legal engineering and product teams, and invest further in onboarding technology. Artificial Lawyer quotes that same company sentence. Legal engineering, here, means people who turn a legal team’s rules into software workflows. Onboarding technology is the company’s phrase for the tools that move a customer off the old system. The release also says the platform integrates with customer-record tools such as Salesforce, and with Slack, NetSuite, and procurement systems. A customer-record tool, often called a CRM, is the software a sales team uses to track accounts. NetSuite is a finance and operations system. Procurement is how a company buys goods and services. Artificial Lawyer repeats the same integration list. File those lines as the company’s, as both pages print them. This desk did not see a hiring plan or a connected account.

Two quotes, as color only. Alex Zilberman, chief executive and co-founder, said the mistake in legal AI has been assuming the future looks like today’s lawyer with faster contractual fact-checking, and that the product works from each company’s own records. Eran Bielski, general partner at Entrée Capital, said Chamelio is building the AI-native operating system for in-house legal teams, and that the founders turn customer feedback into product quickly. An operating system, in that sentence, means the main software a legal team runs on. It is not Windows or macOS. File the names, the titles, and those sentences as the release’s. A quote is not a customer count, and it is not a price for the company.

Do not fill in a price the pages left blank. The PR Newswire release, the CTech story, and the Artificial Lawyer note do not print a valuation. A valuation would be the price the round puts on the whole company. Do not add one. Do not turn “hundreds of customers” into a precise headcount. Do not treat a plan to grow the legal engineering team as a hire this desk has counted.

Plain English for the rest of the card: Series A = an early growth funding round after a seed. seed = the smaller earlier round. The release says five months ago. CTech says the company said eight months ago. AI-native = built around AI from the start. in-house = lawyers inside the company. CLM = contract lifecycle management, software that mainly stores contracts and tracks the steps around them. legal action model = the company’s name for a system trained to do legal work, not only store the file. ARR = the yearly value of current subscriptions. 4x and fourfold = four times, on two different clocks. CRM = customer-record software. procurement = buying goods and services. This filing is the 22 Sep announcement. It is not a priced public listing.

PRIMARY here: Chamelio’s 22 Sep 2026 release on PR Newswire, “Chamelio Raises $26M Series A to Replace Legacy CLM with AI-Native In-House Legal Operations,” stamped 09:00 ET and datelined New York — Tier A PRIMARY, the company’s own record. CTech’s same-day story is an independent wrap. Artificial Lawyer’s same-day note quotes the company. The $26 million Series A, the Entrée Capital lead, Work-Bench, Emerge Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital, the 2024 founding, the three co-founder roles, the AI-native in-house pitch, the drafting-to-obligations workflow, the escalate-only-edge-cases line, the 4x ARR since a seed five months ago, the hundreds of customers including Wonderful.ai, the legal-action-model use of proceeds, and the Salesforce, Slack, NetSuite, and procurement integrations are the release’s. The fourfold ARR since a seed eight months ago, the Wonderful spelling without .ai, the Israeli-startup line, and the Pagaya, AnyVision, and Sage biographies are CTech’s. The use-of-proceeds sentence and the integration list as Artificial Lawyer quotes them are that site’s. NOT claimed: a valuation, a single seed date this desk averaged, that this desk audited the books or counted customers, a list of AnyVision controversies, a stock tip, or investment advice. Distinct from the already-filed snorkel-350m, spott-21m, and verda-189m.