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CS Disco
CS Disco was founded in Houston, Texas, in 2013 by Kiwi Camara and Kent Radford, both graduates of Harvard Law School.
CS Disco
CS Disco was founded in Houston, Texas, in 2013 by Kiwi Camara and Kent Radford, both graduates of Harvard Law School. Camara, who served as the firm's initial legal technologist, built the platform to address the cost and speed bottlenecks in litigation document review. The company incorporated as a public benefit corporation before completing its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in July 2021, raising roughly $200 million at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. The firm now operates from its Austin headquarters. Disco's core product automates ediscovery — the process of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information for legal proceedings. Its SaaS platform spans legal hold management, processing, and AI-driven document review. The software uses proprietary algorithms to prioritize potentially relevant documents faster than linear human review, targeting Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 corporate legal departments. Disco's technology competes directly with legacy on-premise solutions from Relativity and cloud challengers like Everlaw. The company serves legal markets across the United States, with clients spanning North America and select international jurisdictions, and continues investing in artificial intelligence to expand from e-discovery into broader legal workflow automation. Disco went public in July 2021, trading under the ticker LAW on the NYSE. The company employed over 600 people at the time of its IPO. Founder Kiwi Camara retains substantial operational control as CEO and a major shareholder, while also holding the chairman position. The firm discloses its annual revenue and customer metrics as an SEC registrant; for the fiscal year 2022, revenue reached approximately $135 million, driven by subscription contracts with law firms and corporations. Disco has not disclosed separately managed assets, as it operates a software platform, not an investment firm. Disco's structural differentiator is its public benefit corporation charter, a rare governance choice for a legal-tech company pursuing aggressive commercial growth. That charter commits the board to balance shareholder returns with a stated mission of improving legal outcomes using technology. Combined with Camara's founder control and the firm's focus on replacing billable-hour review with software, Disco operates under a mandate that distinguishes it from both private-equity-backed peers and traditional legal process outsourcers.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2013
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Austin
Corporate office
Austin, TX, United States
Principals
Kiwi Camara
Co-Founder and CEO
Kent Radford
Co-Founder
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What does CS Disco do, and how does it differ from other e-discovery tools?
CS Disco provides a cloud-native e-discovery platform used by law firms and corporate legal teams to manage document review for litigation and investigations. Unlike legacy on-premise tools, Disco was built as a SaaS product with machine learning at its core, aiming to make document prioritization faster and more cost-effective. The company competes primarily with Relativity and Everlaw, positioning itself as the more technologically modern, AI-forward alternative in the market.
Who runs CS Disco, and what is their background?
Co-founder Kiwi Camara serves as CEO and chairman. Both Camara and co-founder Kent Radford are Harvard Law School graduates who started the company to address inefficiencies they observed in legal practice. Camara continues to exercise significant operational and voting control over the company, which influences strategy, product direction, and M&A posture.
Is CS Disco an investment firm or a software company?
CS Disco is a software company, not an investment firm. It generates revenue through subscription fees for its e-discovery platform, not through capital management or fund deployment. The firm's assets under management are therefore not a relevant financial metric; investors evaluate Disco on SaaS recurring revenue, customer growth, and product adoption.
How does CS Disco's public benefit corporation status affect its operations?
Disco incorporated as a public benefit corporation, which legally obligates its board of directors to consider the impact of decisions on stakeholders beyond shareholders. This structure is uncommon among legal-tech peers and signals a long-term focus on improving the legal system. In practice, it can shape decisions around product accessibility, pricing, and corporate governance, though the firm still operates as a commercial entity accountable to public markets.
How is CS Disco categorized in the institutional investment landscape?
CS Disco is not an allocator or capital manager — it is a publicly traded enterprise software company listed on the NYSE under the ticker LAW. Institutional investors who own Disco stock hold it as a public-equity position within technology or legal-tech sector allocations, not as a fund commitment or a family office relationship. The company is sometimes referenced in venture and growth equity contexts due to its venture-backed history before the 2021 IPO.
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