Belgium-based Alice, an AI platform developed for lawyers and legal teams, has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to support the development of its end-to-end legal casework solution. The round was led by NewSchool and Seeder Fund, with participation from a group of Belgian angel investors.
The adoption of AI in legal practice is increasing, alongside concerns related to accuracy and reliability. Courts in several jurisdictions have encountered legal submissions containing incorrect or fabricated references, often linked to the use of unverified outputs from general-purpose AI tools. In Belgium, judges have intervened in multiple recent cases, including reopening proceedings and applying procedural measures, while similar decisions have emerged internationally.
Alice is designed to address these challenges by integrating AI into professional legal workflows, with a focus on verification, traceability, and maintaining human oversight.
Launched in June 2025 by practising lawyers Jeroen Villé and Armin Wintein, together with CTO Joren Coulier, Alice develops an AI platform built around legal workflows, emphasising usability, verification, and professional accountability. The platform is already in active use by multiple law firms in Belgium, reflecting early demand for AI tools aligned with legal standards and regulatory requirements.
Jeroen Villé, co-founder and CEO of Alice, said:
We believe AI can have a lasting role in legal practice only if lawyers can fully trust it and maintain control over their cases. Alice is designed to help legal teams work more efficiently and consistently, without the risks associated with unverified outputs.
Alice is structured as a continuous workflow in which each stage informs the next, reflecting the typical progression of legal casework. It supports the full process, from document analysis and legal research to argument development and the preparation of client communications and court-ready materials, within a single, unified environment.
With the pre-seed funding, the company plans to accelerate development of its core legal workflow, expand its team and customer support operations, and pursue geographic growth, beginning in Belgium and extending to the Netherlands and France.
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