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Business Wire
07-08-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Harvey Announces Canadian Expansion, Establishes New Roots in Toronto
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Harvey, a leading AI platform for legal and professional services, today announced its deepening investment in Canada with the opening of a new hub in Toronto in October. As part of its global growth strategy, Harvey is making a long-term investment in the Canadian market, starting with hiring locally across engineering and sales to serve the unique needs of Canadian legal professionals. Recognizing that Toronto is home to top-tier engineering talent, strong academic institutions, and a thriving AI community, Harvey is looking to hire for over 20 roles across engineering and sales. Establishing a local presence will allow the company to tap into Canadian talent and continue to scale the platform with speed, performance and security. Harvey is already working with some of Canada's most respected law firms, including Davies and Gowling WLG, highlighting strong product-market fit and underscoring the demand for secure, purpose-built AI solutions. The new office will help Harvey collaborate even more closely with firms to shape the future of legal work. 'Canada is not just a market for Harvey, it's a place we're thrilled to be building in,' says Winston Weinberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Harvey. 'We're investing in local talent, partnering with leading firms, and embedding ourselves in the country's tech ecosystem. Toronto offers everything we look for in a growth hub: world-class infrastructure, exceptional talent, and a legal community eager to innovate.' Harvey's platform streamlines legal workflows by combining advanced language models with deep legal expertise. Its tools enable lawyers to draft, strategize, and synthesize across vast datasets; collaborate securely on projects; surface insights from both proprietary and public legal sources; and automate complex, recurring legal tasks. All of this is delivered through a secure infrastructure. 'Toronto will become a core development engine for Harvey. We're building critical infrastructure, expanding engineering capacity, and integrating Canadian technical leadership directly into our product lifecycle,' says Siva Gurumurthy, Chief Technology Officer. By establishing a permanent presence in Toronto, Harvey is positioning Canada as a core part of its product roadmap. This is only the beginning of the company's commitment to building locally, growing nationally and contributing meaningfully to the evolution of AI in legal and professional services globally. To learn more about career opportunities with Harvey, visit our careers page. About Harvey Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Its tools streamline complex workflows in areas such as contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation, helping professionals make faster, smarter decisions. Harvey is used by more than 517 customers in 54+ countries, including global law firms and Fortune 500 companies. To learn more, visit
San Francisco Chronicle
09-07-2025
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Another growing AI startup makes a big move in downtown S.F.
On the heels of securing a fresh funding infusion last month, San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Harvey AI is now upgrading its downtown office. The company, which provides AI solutions for attorneys, is on the verge of a deal with Los Angeles-based Kilroy Realty Corp., which is one of the Bay Area's more prominent commercial landlords. It's unclear whether the parties have signed, though real estate insiders told the Chronicle that a deal involving Harvey leasing 92,000-square-feet of office space at 201 3rd St. was imminent. Kilroy declined to comment on the deal when contacted by the Chronicle. But, a spokesperson for Harvey, who also declined to share specifics, confirmed that the company will be moving to the new Third Street location 'later this fall.' It's been a tough five years for Kilroy and other commercial landlords in San Francisco since the start of the pandemic, but the city's office market is now showing signs of a very slow recovery period — largely thanks to demand for new offices from AI startups. Harvey is currently based in a smaller, 30,000-square-foot office at 575 Market St., and had been perusing the market for a larger space for some time — it came close to signing a deal at 525 Market St. several months ago, the Chronicle learned. It's unclear why that deal did not materialize. The company's lease with Kilroy takes the growing startup away from Market Street, placing it across the street from the city's Moscone Convention Center and near the Museum of Modern Art in the Yerba Buena neighborhood. 'We've hired a new CTO in Siva Gurumurthy and a new Chief Business Officer in John Haddock and both of them have plans to hire talented individuals to join their team this year,' the company's spokesperson said in an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday. 'While we don't share lease details or specific hiring targets, the move will support both our San Francisco growth goals and our objective of building a great connected culture across our teams and a space where we can host Harvey customers.' Gurumurthy served as the head of engineering for Twitter, now known as X Corp., for six years prior to the pandemic. Haddock is a recent veteran of fintech Stripe. Last month, the three-year-old company announced that it raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation in a Series E fundraising round — its backers include Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Sequoia Capital and OpenAI. Named after the sharp-witted lead character in legal drama 'Suits,' Harvey was founded in 2022 by former antitrust litigator Winston Weinberg and Gabriel Pereyra, a former research scientist for Google DeepMind and machine learning engineer at Meta. The deal with Kilroy comes as a boost to the developer's 12-story Third Street building — and larger portfolio in San Francisco, which hasn't seen a deal of that size in years, according to the company's executives. Kilroy CEO Angela Aman said during an earnings call in May that a 57,000-square-foot lease renewal by data analytics company Amplitude, that was completed at that time, represented Kilroy's largest deal in the city since 2019. According to Kilroy's most recent quarterly financial report, just over 11% of its occupied space, or 1.9 million square feet, was available for sublease as of March 31, and a majority of those subleases were concentrated in the Bay Area. Overall vacancy in San Francisco's office market has been hovering at over 30% for several years now, but late last year began to dip for the first time since 2020, a positive trend that continued last quarter. San Francisco real estate firm CBRE has forecast that the city is on track to have its best leasing year since 2019, when 12.6 million square feet of office space was leased. Alexander Quinn, senior director of research for real estate firm JLL, said in a post to social media on Tuesday that the amount of space leased by AI companies in the Bay Area grew from 4.8 million square feet to 10.8 million square feet over the last two-and-a-half years.
