Argonautas.ai: The ultimate legal assistant

Argonautas.ai was founded by Antonio Gerassi Neto and Celso Nunes, former founders of Aurum, who identified the transformative potential of AI in the legal sector after nearly two decades in legal technology. The company develops an AI-powered assistant that streamlines the creation, revision, and automated filing of Brazilian legal documents, combining deep industry expertise with advanced artificial intelligence.

The company

Argonautas.ai was founded by Antonio Gerassi Neto and Celso Nunes. Antonio and Celso had previously founded Aurum, a company providing management software to Brazilian lawyers.  After building and managing this company for almost 20 years, Aurum was sold it to Constellation’s Vela operating group. Antonio and Celso continued to run Aurum as part of Vela and oversaw a period of strong growth.

With the recent advances in AI, Antonio and Celso saw an opportunity to revolutionize the legal industry. Argonautas.ai is an AI enabled legal assistant that enables the creation, revision and automated filing of Brazilian legal documents. It combines the founders’ lifelong experience with customer needs in this vertical with groundbreaking Ai technologies.

The benefits for AssetCore working with VMS Ventures:

With the VMS Fund, Argonautas receives:

• Sufficient capital to build and launch the new product. There’s no need for time consuming pre-seed fundraising rounds with dozens of investors.
• Direct commercial assistance from Vela’s extensive portfolio of software companies in the Brazilian Legal Vertical. Finding beta customers and integrating to existing legal management software is much easier with Vela’s assistance.
• Access to multiple funding rounds to support additional growth investments, acquisitions and any other capital needs that may materialize in the future.

Next Steps

With the investment round complete, the immediate goal is to develop and MVP suitable for testing on real customers. Initial customer trials are expected within the first six months, with progressively more features rolled out over the first two years.