CS Disco, Inc. Executive Summary. Get to know the fastest-growing ediscovery solution in North America.

Transcription

1 CS Disco, Inc. Executive Summary Get to know the fastest-growing ediscovery solution in North America.

2 Hello. We re Disco. Our History Disco was initially developed at a litigation boutique in Houston. It was born out of the firm s frustration with conventional tools that were slow and difficult for lawyers to use. Instead of being forced to adapt our work methods to technology, we wanted to invent technology that works the way lawyers want to work. Disco was the result, and today our ediscovery software-as-a-service is the fastest-growing solution in North America. Disco for ediscovery, our first major innovation in legal technology, outperforms the competition on every important measure. Disco ediscovery is 10x faster and much easier to use so that lawyers are instantly productive. Since it was released in 2013, more than 300 law firms, enterprises, and government units, including 50 of the AmLaw 200, have used Disco ediscovery in major cases and investigations. With revenue growth over 20 percent month-over-month, Disco is the fastest-growing technology in ediscovery. Leveraging our turnkey, software-as-a-service delivery model, Disco releases new features and makes improvements nearly every week to maintain our industry leadership. And we are committed to achieving innovation in every other area of legal technology we enter. But the hallmark of a great technology company is not found in features or specifications. It is found in our customers trust in us. We aim to earn that trust by designing our technology solutions to perform the way great lawyers want and need them to perform. Disco is unique in that it combines world-class engineers with a deep love and respect for the law. Our Disco team is composed of former partners and associates of some of the most respected law firms in the world in every department, including engineering, operations, and sales.

3 Our founders are lawyers. Our products are designed by lawyers, for lawyers. And, we attract the best people by offering them the chance to work on realizing our vision of a world of law done right. Our Leadership Disco has an leadership team second to none in the industry. It comprises executive software professionals and seasoned litigators, who together bring a unique perspective to the legal technology marketplace unknown until now. KIWI CAMARA - Chief Executive Officer A lawyer with a B.S. in computer science, Kiwi earned his J.D. at 19 from Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Harris Hartz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, was a Ph.D. student in economics at Stanford, taught corporate law at Northwestern, and was a founding partner of Camara & Sibley LLP in Houston. His articles on constitutional law, corporate law, and international law have been published in the Journal of Corporation Law and the Yale Law Journal. KENT RADFORD Founder As a Disco founder, Kent articulates our vision for technology that empowers great lawyers to customers, partners, and employees. He was previously presiding partner at Camara and Sibley, practiced at Vinson & Elkins, and helped found the Houston offices of Hogan, Lovells and Pillsbury Winthrop. He is a registered member of the Cherokee Nation and expert on central Texas BBQ. BARRY HAGAN Chief Technology Officer Barry designed and built the search, database, and data-center infrastructure that is responsible for Disco s unmatched speed and responsiveness. Before joining Disco, he was CIO and director of technology at Sonic Foundry, a publicly traded company that made audio, video, image and animation software that was acquired by Sony. Barry earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin. PAGE 3

4 TOM BENWELL Vice President of Sales Tom leads the Disco sales organization, bringing experienced executive skills and proven success in building high-performance sales teams at software-as-a-service companies. He previously served in executive positions at HP/Compaq, Athens Group, and FuelQuest. His passion is executive coaching, mentoring and creating best-in-class sales organizations. NEIL ETHERIDGE Vice President of Marketing A 17-year veteran of the legal industry, Neil combines a deep understanding of law firms, legal departments, and the legal tech industry with a passion for delivering revolutionary legal technology. Before joining Disco, Neil was vice president of product marketing for Recommind, where he was responsible for product marketing, strategy, and competitive intelligence across all product lines, including ediscovery, information governance, and enterprise search. KEITH ZOELLNER Vice President of Engineering and Product Development With more than 25 years building highly scalable technology platforms and high velocity product development organizations, Keith leads the Disco engineering and product development team. During the last 15 years Keith has developed a proven track record of taking early stage start up technology organizations and guiding them through substantial growth. Most recently Keith facilitated large-scale growth at Spredfast in Austin, Texas, a market leading social media management organization. Prior to that, Keith spent seven years at StoredIQ, where he developed a highly scalable categorization and indexing platform for the legal tech market. DIANNE BORGES Vice President of Customer Success Dianne s goal is to develop deep relationships with Disco customers, ensuring that we deliver not only technology but also results. Prior to Disco, Dianne was vice president of client success for Bazaarvoice, the world s largest social commerce network, where she drove customer retention, account growth, customer segmentation, and profitable services delivery at scale. As senior vice president of market-research consultancy Millward Brown, she managed and grew relationships with strategic accounts including Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, Cadbury, Dell, Zales, and Microsoft. PAGE 4

5 Investment LiveOak Venture Partners made the initial investment in Disco, recognizing the value of its unique vision and enabling the company to enter the legal technology market and grow. LiveOak Venture Partners is a full lifecycle investor focused on technology and technology-driven service companies primary based in Texas and the Southwest. For over a decade, the founders of LiveOak have helped entrepreneurs create over $1.5B of enterprise value through investments in industry-leading companies, such as Spatial Wireless (acquired by AlcatelLucent), Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), LifeSize Technologies (acquired by Logitech) and Mavenir Systems. In November 2014 Disco closed an additional $10 million in series B financing. Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) led this round of investment, with participation from LiveOak Venture Partners. Disco customers Trevor Jefferies, of AmLaw 200 law firm Arnold & Porter, and Stephen Wallace, former general counsel of Westlake Chemical, also invested. Bob P. Goodman, founding partner in BVP s New York office, has joined Disco s board of directors. Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) invests in early-stage, hyper-growth startups, partnering closely with entrepreneurs to build durable businesses. BVP is a global firm with offices in Menlo Park, Cambridge, New York, Bangalore, Herzliya and Sao Paulo. With $4 billion under management, BVP invests anywhere from $100,000 to $75 million in innovative companies like Pinterest, Twilio, Box, LinkedIn, Shopify, Yelp, Skype and Cornerstone OnDemand. Over 100 BVP companies have gone public. Platform The goal of Disco is to deliver a world class legal technology that removes the complexities seen in most software tools today. We started with delivering a comprehensive ediscovery solution as a true Software as a Service or SaaS. This means there is no software to install or maintain in your IT infrastructure. No plugins or downloads in your browser to make it work. You simply log on to a website and start your review. This approach has delivered significant savings for our clients and given us the ability to scale on demand, something not possible with traditional on premise software. To deliver our unique SaaS, we incorporated next generation technology that use the same big data, No- SQL database technologies that power major search and social platforms. Other ediscovery platforms still rely on legacy search engines and SQL databases. These newer, more innovative technologies help enable us to deliver search performance that is 10 times faster than the competition. And we operate these technologies in Disco data centers that incorporate the newest high-performance servers that are much faster and more efficient than on-premise computing systems which can vary widely in performance and capabilities. PAGE 5

6 Manyof the legal technology solutions in the marketplace today are cobbled together through various integrations and licensing deals to offer a complete package. Disco has always taken a different approach. Disco has written all the code for its platform so that everything works together seamlessly. This reduces the risk of data spoliation and increases the efficiency of workflows allow us to achieve new, higher levels of automation. Thus we are able to avoid many of the manual tasks and data handoffs that are prone to error in other systems. How to get started: Using Disco is incredibly simple, just follow 3 easy steps Send us your data We automate all processing Start your search and review PAGE 6

7 1 Send us your data You send collected case data in native format, or productions received from opposing counsel, to us by hard drive, secure FTP, or even drag and drop. We load it on dedicated machines in secure, redundant, and audited data centers in the US and United Kingdom. 2 We automate all processing Disco software handles all processing automatically, including file unpacking, denisting, text and metadata extraction, OCR, time-zone normalization, duplicates, near duplicates, imaging all documents, parent-child relationships, conversations, search index and review database creation, and preparation of a full ingest report and exception report for defensibility. 3 Start your search and review Access your data through Disco on any web browser to perform searches and reviews using familiar Westlaw- and Lexis-style search syntax and produce results in all formats right from your desk. Disco is a complete replacement for your existing processing, early case assessment, review, and production tools. GET STARTED TODAY! See for yourself why Disco ediscovery has become the fastest growing company in legal technology. Visit the Disco website at and take a self-guided tour. PAGE 7