Vikk AI raises $3.5M seed to grow its AI legal assistant and attorney ad platform
What's the deal? Vikk AIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Long Beach, California-based consumer legal assistant and attorney referral platform, has raised a $3.5 million seed round. Investors include tax attorney Ronson Shamoun, personal injury attorney Joe Samo, health executive Brad Jowell, pharmaceutical executive Cooper CollinsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and undisclosed angels.
The round follows a $700,000 pre-seed that closed in August 2025, bringing total funding to $4.2 million. The company was self-funded before the pre-seed.
What does it do? Vikk AI lets users describe a legal problem and receive an overview of their options. Its Lawyer Ad Center, now fully available after beta testing, lets attorneys advertise to potential clients by location and practice area.
What's the endgame? Co-founder and chief executive officer Walid Romaya said the platform aims to triage everyday legal issues, then connect users to lawyers. Customers "use Vikk as a first line of inquiry," he said, citing accidents, child custody, and property disputes. "Our mission is to provide that first assistant, triage, and then hand it over to the lawyer if the user would like to connect to the lawyer."
What's next? Vikk AI will spend the funds on software development, more engineers, and outreach to advertisers. It plans a lawyer directory by mid-August and an initial trial of Vikk Data Hub — a terminal offering law firms, insurers, and other enterprises anonymized data on legal search trends — around the end of the third quarter of 2026.
Romaya framed the Data Hub around enterprise demand: "If I'm an insurance company, I want to see trends about legal matters in a certain state, and what kind of legal matters are popping that might affect me or my brand."
The backstory: Romaya founded the company in 2019 with Lewis & Clark Law School professor Tabrez Ebrahim to connect attorneys and clients. It pivoted in 2023 toward a legal assistant that helps potential clients articulate their issues before matching them with attorneys. Vikk AI now employs 15 to 20 people.
The signal: The seed round sits in the top 10% of all-time seed rounds in the legal sector, drawn from a sample of 3,224 deals. That places Vikk AI's backing well above the norm for early-stage legal startups, even as the company builds toward revenue from both ads and data.
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