Arna Launches to Replace Traditional Law Firm offerings with "Legal AI Blueprints" for Companies
Arna, an AI company on a mission to enable businesses to independently resolve complex legal matters, today announces its official launch and a successful pre-seed funding round led by prominent European investors.
Founded by Rodoljub Petrovic (formerly led engineering at Celtra, Turtl and Weflow) and Nejc Novak (the founder of law firm Nlaw), Arna represents a strategic fusion of deep legal expertise and high-scale engineering. Unlike the current wave of “assistive” AI tools designed to help lawyers work faster, Arna is built for the company itself, embedded in its operation, aiming to replace the traditional, costly reliance on external law firms for both routine and strategic legal matters.
Beyond Chat: Autonomous Legal Blueprints
At the core of Arna’s platform are Blueprints - curated, end-to-end solutions for specific legal challenges. These are not mere templates; they are intelligent workflows that help companies identify barriers, map out strategies, and execute legal tasks - from securing MiFID licenses to managing global employment compliance - without the immediate need for a billable-hour lawyer.
“The industry has focused on AI as a co-pilot for lawyers. We believe the future is AI as a pilot for the business,” says Nejc Novak, CEO of Arna. “By enabling employees to solve more legal problems with no or minimal involvement of lawyers, we aren’t just reducing the pressure on in-house teams -we are fundamentally changing the procurement of legal services. For many companies, Arna will be the reason they don’t hire a traditional law firm, and their in-house teams will have more time to focus on high-value strategic matters.”
Proven Impact: 60+ Jurisdictions and Regulatory Wins
Arna has spent the last three months in stealth, proving its model with forward-thinking companies, such as Native Teams (on managing employment law compliance across 95 jurisdictions) and Iconomi (on EU financial services licences), demonstrating Arna’s ability to navigate high-stakes regulatory environments.
A pre-seed of European Backing
To fuel its mission, Arna has raised a pre-seed round led by an angel ticket from Jani Valjavec, with participation from Fil Rouge Capital, daFund, and Jernej Strasner (Accel Starter). This group of EU-based investors is providing Arna with access to a wide network across the continent as it prepares for rapid expansion.
“We saw a massive gap between ‘chatting with documents’ and actually ‘getting legals done,” says Rodoljub Petrovic, CTO of Arna. “Our focus now is on expanding our Blueprint library and scaling our infrastructure to support companies across Europe as they transition to a more intelligent, autonomous way of handling legal operations.”
The capital will be used to scale the product and prove its value beyond the first few customers and legal verticals.
About Arna
Arna is a cloud platform that helps companies automate their legal tasks with AI. Through its proprietary, lawyer-designed Blueprints, Arna provides the intelligence and workflows needed to solve legal problems, manage risks, and reduce external counsel spend.
To learn more, visit arna.ai.