Ep 048: ROSS Intelligence Founders Andrew Arruda and Jimoh Ovbiagele

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi travels to Toronto to sit down for a live recording with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform</span> <a href="https://rossintelligence.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">ROSS Intelligence</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, CEO</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewarruda"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Andrew Arruda</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and CTO</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/findingjimoh/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jimoh Ovbiagele</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Along with a third founder,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pargles/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pargles Dall’Oglio</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Arruda and Ovbiagele first developed ROSS at the University of Toronto in 2014, rapidly gaining international attention for what the news media dubbed the robot lawyer of the future. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In short order, the founders were invited to Silicon Valley to participate in the prestigious Y-Combinator startup incubator. Denton’s</span> <a href= "http://www.nextlawlabs.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NextLaw Labs</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">made ROSS one of its earliest investments. In 2015, they secured $4.3 million in seed funding and then, two years later, another $8.7 million in Series A funding. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “</span><a href= "https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjle45eeelm/jimoh-ovbiagele-23-par/#2b27caf82deb"><span style="font-weight: 400;">30 Under 30</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So where is ROSS today? On today’s episode, Arruda and Ovbiagele recount the founding of their company, its rapid rise, controversy over its marketing, major developments over the past year, and what lies ahead. They also share their thoughts about AI in legal more broad