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Line — Engineer · 01/03

We build companies inside the industries we know.

Legaltech, banking core, insurance operations, regulatory automation. Founders bring the domain; we ship the first product with them, and stay through the first customer.

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SCALE / PORTFOLIO / 2026-Q3ARR ramp across cohortsFideicSeries A8k22k44k78k110kCadenceSeed6k18k32k52k68kStatuteSeed4k12k26k40k54kPrismaSeries A2k8k16k28k42kOrdinatSeed2k6k12k22k32kQ3 25Q4 25Q1 26Q2 26Q3 26TOTAL PORTFOLIO ARR€306kMEDIAN TVPI3.4×GROSS IRR42.3%
Portfolio ARR ramp across cohorts — five active ventures
Ventures in build
Seven companies engineered from inside their target industry.
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Every one of these ventures started with a founder who had shipped inside a regulated operation — and a Pillor operator seated next to them on day one.

Four verticals live · Nine founders in flight · €12M deployed at seed across direct and LP co-invest.

Thesis

The next generation of European legaltech is not being built by tooling vendors. It is being built by former operators who left the practice with a specific pipeline in mind.

We build those companies with them. Same office, same standups, same engineers. Not an accelerator, not a fund with a deck. A co-founder that ships.

We stay through the first paying customer, the second, the third — until the company owns its own rails and can hire the next operator itself.

A build, week by week

From day one to institutional round.

  1. Week 0
    Founder + operator seated

    You bring the domain. We bring the engineers and the operating posture. Same room from day one.

  2. Week 3
    First operator interviews

    We enter the first target customer's operation together. Diagnosis in the wild, not in a deck.

  3. Week 6
    MVP live in production

    First real customer. First real invoice. No shadow environment, no pilot purgatory.

  4. Week 12
    First contracts, second cohort

    Second and third customers. The rails start to compound. The market map fills in.

  5. Month 9
    Institutional round

    Series A conversations. We stay through the round with introductions to LPs already inside the sector.

Why here, not somewhere else

The best legaltech companies are built inside the operation. That is our advantage.

An accelerator sees the deck. We see the pipeline. That difference compounds every week.

Verbatim · Founding cohort
I brought the domain. Pillor brought the operator posture and the engineers. Six weeks later we were in production. Nine months later we closed a Series A.
A founder-in-residenceFounding cohort · 2025
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