Startup Funding
SpotDraft, an AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, has raised $8 million from Qualcomm Ventures in an extended Series B funding round. The investment follows SpotDraft’s $56 million Series B raise in February 2025. Founded by Shashank Bijapur and Madhav Bhagat, SpotDraft combines intuitive workflows, business-friendly design, and AI-powered contract intelligence to help legal teams reduce turnaround times, scale operations, and demonstrate measurable business impact. The startup will use the raised capital to to deepen its product and AI capabilities and expand its enterprise presence across the Americas, EMEA, and India, and the relationship extends beyond capital. “This investment validates the architectural direction we've taken with SpotDraft,” said Shashank Bijapur, Co-founder and CEO, SpotDraft. “Legal teams handle some of the most sensitive business information, yet most AI tools still require sending that data to external cloud models. We've developed the...