2023年7月10日,

是明顯的一個重要裏程碑裏程碑,一個合法的科技公司,其產品為律師事務所的客戶提供了自動更新的情況下,它已經關閉了一個210萬美元的種子輪和重塑是Hona反映更廣泛的範圍內的產品的能力。主要的種子輪利希、猶他州、公司三個投資者:Y Combinator, Soma魯上校企業和資本。公司成立於2021年,曾在計劃資金籌集了500000美元。它在3月完成了Y Combinator批。產品,自動發送短信通知客戶他們更新的問題,該公司已獲得重大進展在過去的一年裏,共同創始人兼首席執行官Manny格裏菲斯在最近的一次采訪中告訴我。它已經超過20個員工,最近搬到更大的辦公空間,跨越超過每年100萬美元的經常性收入。曼尼格裏菲思的增長以及隨之而來的進化產品,該公司決定重塑是為了更好地反映這些變化。啟動時,公司將自己描述為達美樂披薩追蹤服務企業和他們的客戶,通知客戶當他們的問題達到指定的裏程碑。它主要律師事務所等領域的人身傷害,工人的賠償和移民,是線性和相當標準的裏程碑。但隨著公司的客戶群擴展到其他的實踐領域,它還擴大了其客戶的能力提供其他類型的更新不一定遵循線性跟蹤,和作為一個雙向消息和文檔交換係統為公司和客戶。 “Essentially, we’re going into practice areas where firms want to give their clients updates, but showing it in a linear form wouldn’t make sense to the client,” Griffiths said. “So now, they’re able to just notify the client, ‘Hey, this thing happened. '” The company settled on Hona as a name that everyone within the company liked but that is intentionally vague as to what the company does, so as not to pigeonhole its future growth. Integrates with Case Management Hona integrates with a firm’s case management software, which is where firms can set up the triggers that will notify clients of particular events. The company works with the firm for the initial setup of the triggers. “During their initial setup phase, they can say, ‘If this task is completed, I want to send this message or move to this phase,'” Griffiths explained. “So we spend a couple of meetings with the firm asking, ‘What do you want to update your clients on? What do you want to convey to them? '” The majority of the company’s customers are plaintiffs’ personal injury law firms, Griffiths said, but it also has a number of firms in areas such as bankruptcy, criminal defense, employment, family law, and immigration. But Griffiths has his sights set on expanding far more broadly among law firms and practice areas, to the point where he would like to see the company eventually reach unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion. For that to happen, he wants Hona to become the de facto client portal for every type of practice area, and one that provides more than simply updates, but also payments and other features for interfacing with clients. One key to achieving that, he believes, is maintaining strong relationships with case and practice management systems. Already, Hona integrates with more than a dozen platforms, including CASEpeer, Clio, Filevine, GrowPath, Litify, Neos, PracticePanther, and MyCase. “If we have the strongest functionality and we have really tight-knit integrations, there’s no reason we couldn’t be the de facto portal for everyone,” Griffiths said. By the way, the original idea for the company came out of Griffiths’ personal experience, after his wife was in a car accident in 2018 and hired a lawyer to seek compensation. The process proved frustrating, as she felt that her lawyer never kept her in the loop. Griffiths, who previously worked at the law practice management company Filevine, and cofounder Matt McClellan started the company so that clients would not always have to be the ones reaching out to get updates on their matters.