Omnilex

THE PROBLEM

Legal research remains slow and fragmented. Lawyers search statutes, judgments, commentaries and internal files across separate systems, then manually connect the reasoning. Generic AI can summarize text, but complex legal work demands jurisdiction-specific sources, traceable citations and much greater reliability.

THE APPROACH

Omnilex brings those materials into one AI workspace. Its AI-generated commentary layer annotates and connects laws and court decisions, helping lawyers move from a question to source-grounded analysis rather than an unsupported chatbot answer. The platform also integrates firms’ internal knowledge. Its focus on Swiss and German law creates a credible wedge in markets where local legal depth matters more than generic model breadth.

WHY THIS TEAM

Co-founders Marco Henri, Etienne Salimbeni and Ismael Seck combine startup execution, applied AI and cybersecurity. CTO Salimbeni holds computer-science and cybersecurity master’s degrees from EPFL and ETH Zurich, conducted AI and cloud-security research at Oracle, and worked in security engineering at Niantic. He also co-authored LEXam, a legal-reasoning benchmark developed with researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.

MOMENTUM

Omnilex raised a $4.5 million seed round in November 2025 led by Founderful, with Plug and Play and others participating. At the announcement, it reported more than 120 adopting organizations, ARR doubling over the prior three months and 200,000-plus legal annotations. Its website now reports more than 6,000 lawyer users, a development partnership with the Swiss Federal Chancellery and a rollout to Dextra’s 130 employees. These figures are company-reported.