Legal-tech startup Nyayanidhi has raised $2 million (about ₹17 crore) in a seed round led by 3one4 Capital, marking one of the more focused bets on AI-driven infrastructure for India’s litigation ecosystem. The round also saw participation from DeVC, PeerCheque, Force Ventures and a clutch of angel investors, including Nishchay Ag, co-founder of Jar, the company said.
Funding round with a systems-first thesis
The Bengaluru-based startup, founded in 2024 by Adithya LHS, Chakshu Masagali and Pratik Pany, is not positioning itself as yet another legal marketplace or document template library. Instead, Nyayanidhi is building what it describes as digital infrastructure for litigation, a software layer that sits inside the existing court and law-firm workflow and quietly does the heavy lifting of documentation, translation and filings using AI and automation.
According to the company, the new capital will be used to:
- Strengthen its AI infrastructure
- Expand its network of advocate partners
- Deepen partnerships with government bodies
- Scale operations across more Indian states
For 3one4 Capital and the other backers, the bet is on a systems play: if litigation in India can be made more predictable and timely at the workflow level, it could unlock value across courts, law firms, enterprises and eventually citizens who rely on the justice system.
An “operating system” for litigation, not just a tool
Nyayanidhi says its goal is to build an “operating system” for India’s litigation ecosystem, a single platform that improves speed, predictability and transparency in how legal work gets done.
At the core is an AI-native platform that automates three of the most time-consuming tasks in litigation:
- Legal documentation
- Translations
- Court filings
By standardising these processes and layering them with automation, Nyayanidhi claims it can make them up to ten times faster and more reliable, while maintaining strong quality controls.
On one side, the company works with a network of advocate partners who bring “deep legal expertise, sectoral insight and procedural mastery.” On the other, its technology stack is designed to ensure outcome-focused delivery, meaning the emphasis is on the result of the legal work rather than just providing tools and templates.
Co-founder and CEO Adithya LHS has described Nyayanidhi’s vision as building a platform that brings speed, predictability and accountability to legal work by combining AI with human legal expertise, helping clients reach resolutions with more confidence.
A system under strain: 50 million pending cases
The timing of this bet on litigation infrastructure is significant. Nyayanidhi points to market data that illustrates the scale of India’s judicial backlog:
- Over 50 million cases are currently pending across courts
- Around 20 million new cases are filed each year, according to the National Judicial Data Grid
Reforms such as the eCourts project have digitised parts of the system, from cause lists to online orders. But much of the daily work of litigation, drafting, bundling, translations, repeated filings across matters, remains heavily manual and paper-bound.
Nyayanidhi is attempting to plug this gap by focusing on the middle layer of litigation: not the courtroom itself, but the workflows that determine how quickly and accurately a matter is prepared before it even reaches the judge’s desk.
Pilots inside High Courts and early traction
Unlike many early-stage SaaS products that operate at arm’s length from institutions, Nyayanidhi is already embedded inside the High Court ecosystem.
The company says it has:
- Completed pilots within High Courts, working closely with court processes
- Built enterprise partnerships for litigation workflows
- Processed thousands of litigation cases on its platform so far
Operating from within the High Court of Karnataka, Nyayanidhi provides multilingual drafting and filing support, an important capability in a system where pleadings and orders often move between English and regional languages. The company claims that, in select matters, this has reduced preparation timelines from weeks to days.
For lawyers and litigants, this kind of time compression can mean faster filings, fewer procedural errors and more bandwidth for strategic work rather than repetitive paperwork.
Investors see a “reliability” play in litigation
For lead investor 3one4 Capital, Nyayanidhi is addressing what it calls a “real gap” in the legal ecosystem: the need to make litigation more reliable and outcomes-driven, not just digitised for the sake of it. The focus, according to the firm, is on measurable results, shorter preparation cycles, more predictable filings and greater accountability in how legal work is executed.
Other participants in the round, including DeVC, PeerCheque, Force Ventures and angel investor Nishchay Ag, are effectively backing a human-in-the-loop AI model: AI handles the heavy, repeatable processes, while advocates ensure nuance, strategy and compliance with evolving legal standards.
What the fresh capital enables for Nyayanidhi
With the seed funding in place, Nyayanidhi has outlined a clear set of priorities:
- Expand the advocate network
- Onboard more lawyers across practice areas and geographies
- Deepen collaboration so that the AI layer reflects real-world litigation practice
- Strengthen AI and automation infrastructure
- Improve the reliability and speed of its drafting, translation and filing engines
- Enhance quality controls to maintain trust in automated outputs
- Scale geographically and institutionally
- Take its platform to more states beyond its existing High Court deployments
- Deepen partnerships with government and judicial bodies to integrate into official workflows
- Broaden enterprise partnerships
- Work with enterprises that handle high volumes of litigation and compliances, offering them a more predictable process layer
India’s legal-tech space has seen experiments ranging from contract lifecycle tools to discovery platforms and legal research engines. Nyayanidhi is notable for targeting the litigation stack itself, the part of the system that directly interfaces with courts, and where delays are most visible to citizens.
By choosing to work from inside court environments and aligning its product around speed, predictability and accountability, the startup is positioning itself less as a standalone app and more as part of the core infrastructure of litigation.
If the company can continue to prove that its AI-native workflows reduce preparation time, support multilingual operations and maintain high legal accuracy at scale, it will strengthen the case for treating litigation infrastructure as a critical layer of India’s broader digital public infrastructure story, much like what has happened in finance and identity.
For now, the $2 million seed round gives Nyayanidhi more runway to test that thesis in real-world courtrooms and high-volume litigation environments, at a time when the pressure to clear India’s mounting case backlog is only intensifying.
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