A new model for venture-stage legal
AI-native flat-fee legal services for venture-backed companies. GC subscription, capital raising, M&A — with the senior dealmaker judgment Big Law charges by the hour.
Every engagement runs through an experienced attorney. No associate-led drafting, no junior-led negotiations.
A practice intelligence layer drafts, reviews, and tracks deal documents. What used to take an associate week takes a senior partner an afternoon.
Subscription GC and per-deliverable flat fees. No clock, no surprise invoices, no incentive to drag out the work.
Subscription GC
Day-to-day legal — commercial contracts, employment, corporate governance — covered by a monthly subscription. No hourly bills, no surprise invoices, partner-level attention at a predictable cost.
Capital raising
Formations, SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced rounds (Seed through Series C). Flat fees, agreed upfront. NVCA standard with deviations explained, not buried.
M&A
Acquisitions, exits, and strategic transactions for venture-backed companies. Diligence, drafting, and negotiation run by senior counsel from kickoff to close.
Stay through exit
We stay with you — from your first SAFE through your priced rounds and eventually your exit. Continuity matters; the deal you do at Series A is the diligence you face at the sale.
High-quality legal advice, delivered with AI leverage, at affordable and predictable rates. Flat fees per deliverable, or subscription-based outside GC services. No hourly bills. No metered email. No surprise invoices at month-end.
We stay with you — from your first SAFE through your priced rounds and eventually your exit. The same senior attorney who knows why your founders' vesting was structured a particular way is the one who handles the buyer's diligence. That continuity is rare, and it's the part of Big Law that's actually worth paying for.
Underneath sits a practice intelligence layer we've built ourselves: a drafting engine, a deviation corpus, and a deal-tracking substrate that turns associate-level work into infrastructure. Senior judgment plus AI leverage is how we charge flat fees for work competitors still bill hourly.
Our founder is an emerging-companies and venture capital partner with hundreds of deals — formations, financings, M&A transactions — worth of dealmaker pattern-matching. Tessera is what happens when that judgment gets paired with the right tools and the right pricing model.
Founders, investors, or operators — tell us a bit about what you're working on and we'll be in touch as we open up engagements.
Or email hello@tessera.legal.