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Pierre Martin shared thisFirst RelFest as Gavel now part of Relativity . Pretty special one. We’re launching Relativity aiR for Drafting, built on Gavel’s powerful technology and now securely connected to millions of matter documents. That changes the ambition. This isn’t just contract review or a chatbot sitting on top of a few files. It’s about producing defensible work product grounded in the actual matter, with enough depth to handle real legal complexity. My team has also been showing more of claiR: letting lawyers converse with huge corpora throughout the lifecycle of a case, from early strategy and discovery to drafting, trial, and soon, on the go. When you can reason across petabytes of legal data, the opportunity is much bigger than chat. It’s turning matter knowledge and intelligence into action, at unprecedented scale. Super proud of this team for absolutely crushing demo after demo, and of how quickly we’ve gone from acquisition to building together with real ambition. If you haven't seen the demo sparkle from Laura Goodfellow you are seriously missing out. And huge credit to Dorna Moini Phil Saunders Chris Brown Elise Tropiano for an inspiring keynote. Great catching up with Elizabeth Grabowski Parikh from Courtroom AI too. Change is in the aiR. #Relativity #RelFest #RelFest2026 #Legal #Technology #Startup #Gavel #BuiltOnGavel
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Pierre Martin reposted thisAnother year, another celebration of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Illinois ECE distinguished alumni! Congratulations Aran Hegarty, Jim Raftery, Jong Yoon Lee, Prasun Raha, Pradeep S. Shenoy, and Sharon Xue Yang! Thank you for carrying forward the Illinois ECE and The Grainger College of Engineering legacy! When I graduated over a decade ago, I became the first Black woman to earn the doctorate in ECE at Illinois. I had no idea then that I'd carry that distinction to leading our Alumni Board. Thank you to our incredible Board and Illinois ECE for your partnership and your belief in me. Congratulations again to our distinguished alumni.Pierre Martin reposted thisECE welcomed this year's Alumni Awards recipients for a Colloquium Series Panel on September 10. ECE Alumni Board President Yemaya Bordain faciliated the panel that included Aran Hegarty, Jim Raftery, Prasun Raha, Pradeep S. Shenoy, and Sharon Xue Yang. #IllinoisECE #ECEColloquiumSeries #ECEAlumniAwards #GraingerEngineering #ECEalumni
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Pierre Martin shared thisGavel (now part of Relativity) is back on the recruiting trail! We are hiring the engineers building the AI surfaces defining the future of law, from advanced to staff engineers. The setup is unusual: - You'll work directly with the founders. - Operate in startup mode. - Build with the speed and ownership of a small, talent-dense team. - We're growing fast and were just acquired this summer. - So we are continuing to build agents for lawyers, but now backed by 80+ petabytes of legal data, and the scale and distribution of Relativity, our parent company. At Gavel, we’re building AI-native products lawyers will actually live in every day: agents, workflows, drafting, research, redlining, and entirely new interfaces for legal work. I just opened these roles on our AI Surfaces team: → Advanced Software Engineer — AI Surfaces https://lnkd.in/gCswdigW → Senior Software Engineer — AI Surfaces https://lnkd.in/gNEanA7Y → Lead Software Engineer — AI Surfaces https://lnkd.in/gDsNaExw If you’re an exceptional engineer who wants startup-level ownership, direct access to the people making strategic bets, and a data + distribution advantage that most AI startups can only dream about, I’d love to hear from you. In person in Seattle, Chicago or full remote. In bonus, a video of our team in our Seattle office last year, which continues to grow :) #BuiltOnGavel #Gavel #Relativity #LegalTech #AI #Seattle #Chicago #Tech #Jobs #Recruiting cc: Dorna Moini
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Pierre Martin reposted thisPierre Martin reposted thisOur first-ever Demo Day, two VC AMAs, and much more happening at AI House in Seattle!
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Pierre Martin shared thislet's go! 🔥Pierre Martin shared thisA top-five Am Law 100 firm is joining the Advanced Access program for Relativity claiR, a conversational AI experience designed specifically for lawyers. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates is among the first major law firms to participate in the program, evaluating and providing input on #RelativityclaiR ahead of its planned general availability in early 2027. “We look forward to collaborating closely with leading organizations like Skadden as we develop claiR to help lawyers work with their most consequential legal data more directly, applying their own judgment to the facts that matter most.” — Chris Brown, President, Relativity #RelativityclaiR #LegalAI #LegalTech #LegalDataIntelligence
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Pierre Martin reposted thisPierre Martin reposted thisEtched delivers, Wispr launches Notetaker, & more | Neo & Noteworthy Check out our August recap of learnings and announcements by Neo portfolio companies and community members. Share your thoughts and subscribe to stay posted on all things Neo! 💙 https://lnkd.in/gb-wNzKBEtched delivers, Wispr launches Notetaker, & more | Neo & NoteworthyEtched delivers, Wispr launches Notetaker, & more | Neo & Noteworthy
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Pierre Martin reposted thisPierre Martin reposted thisSome things just can’t be “unseen.” Early last year, I was shadowing a scientist in the lab of a well-known biotech company. She was in the lab because the FDA had requested some additional assays to be run for their lead clinical program. She was in the lab because she was the ONLY PERSON in the company who could handle this particularly finicky cell line. She had any number of clever little tricks and every time I asked her whether that technique was in the protocol, she’d reply with something like… “oh no, it's not a big thing, I think it just keeps the cells happier.” I couldn’t help thinking to myself: “what if she wasn’t here?” For companies at that stage, a company whose future depended on this lead asset, it was an existential risk. At that time, I was regularly connecting with Renee Wegrzyn, an old friend and colleague who was running ARPA-H. She was running into the same issues at the funder level - time and again incubating incredible scientific breakthroughs but all too often seeing them wither on the vine because they struggled to scale or translate into new contexts. We realized that as an industry, we don’t have a good representation of scientific work. And that bottlenecks EVERYTHING. Automation? Can’t automate what you don’t understand. AI? Hard to interpret data if batch effects are outweighing the scientific signal. M&A or licensing? Expensive to do a deal if you have to spend 12 months just getting the tech to reproduce in your hands… REALLY expensive if your manufacturing process fails to replicate at your CDMO and your drug launch is delayed. Training? Inherently limited by the 1:1 nature of apprenticeship. Today, we’re formally introducing Transfyr. We’re building the infrastructure that is needed to understand how process and context impacts outcomes. We capture tacit knowledge, we understand where variance matters (and just as importantly, where it does not), and we work to make processes more legible, reproducible, and transferable. We're working with the top scientist and the top frontier AI labs. I’m incredibly lucky to be building this with Renee, and with a kickass team that is unapologetically ambitious and pragmatic. We’re grateful to Carl Zimmer and The New York Times for spending so much time with us to capture the "magic" and to understand what we’re building and why it matters... for scientists, and for the world that depends on them. We're fortunate to be backed by General Catalyst, who led our $25 million seed raise, alongside Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures, Factory, MVP Ventures, Underscore VC, SV Angel, Neo, and LH Capital, Inc. & Lyda Hill Philanthropies And we're honored to be advised by some of the very best, including Chris Re (who convinced me to start this company on a long walk in Menlo Park), David Baker, Stephen Quake, D.Phil., Jakob Uszkoreit, Kenneth C. Frazier, and Kevin Weil. More to come. For now: meet Transfyr.
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Pierre Martin shared thisThis is exactly the strategy that made Gavel joining Relativity so exciting to Dorna Moini and me: AI-native surfaces, available to every lawyer, powered by the depth and intelligence of Relativity’s data. I’m incredibly excited to lead the ClaiR + Gavel teams as we join forces around that vision across surfaces that lawyers love. I can't wait to see what we can build together with Relativity’s customers around the world. Huge kudos to the entire team for getting this out the door -- this is a huge first step! The opportunity is much bigger than adding AI to legal software. We get to rethink how lawyers everywhere interact with legal data and get high quality work done on the most important matters. let's go!Pierre Martin shared thisToday we're announcing Relativity claiR. #RelativityclaiR gives lawyers conversational command of the full depth of their legal data — grounded, cited, auditable answers from the complete matter record, in plain language, without complexity or a learning curve. Three of the world's leading law firms are the first to put claiR to work through Relativity's Advanced Access program: A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner LLP, and K&L Gates. "This isn't lawyers learning their way around #RelativityOne. It's a fundamentally new way to get them straight to the answers in their most consequential legal data." — Phil Saunders, CEO, Relativity Full announcement in the comments. #RelativityclaiR #LegalAI #LegalTech #LegalDataIntelligence
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Pierre Martin shared thisCongrats to Daso! I can't wait for my kids to try it out.Pierre Martin shared thisDaso has raised a $750k pre seed round from Neo My first job was teaching 3 and 4 year olds to read at Kumon. Since then I've taught English to refugees in Greece, coding to middle schoolers at Juni Learning, and developers how to build with AI at Runpod and JustBuild. Every time, the same lesson: the magic is one on one attention. And almost no parent can afford it for their kid. Now AI makes truly personalized learning possible. So we're rethinking the computer for kids from first principles. Daso is a computer for kids ages 6 to 12 with an AI tutor baked in and real creation tools: drawing, coding, music, film, writing. We replace passive scrolling with active learning. The tutor guides, it never does the work for them. A computer, not a companion. Help us stop the spread of brainrot and protect critical thinking and attention spans! In two weeks, our first Founding Families receive Daso Computers in their homes for a free four week program. We have a few spots left. If your family has kids ages 6 to 12, or you know one that does, apply in the comments
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Pierre Martin liked thisPierre Martin liked thisCongratulations to Philip Weldon, Senior Director of eDiscovery and AI Assisted Review, of Hecker Fink LLP! The Customer Experience award honors the trailblazers who turn customer relationships into lasting partnerships, embracing feedback, driving innovation, and constantly elevating the customer experience. #RelFestChicago #InnovationAwards
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Pierre Martin reacted on thisPierre Martin reacted on thisAnother Pitch Please in the books! This is one of our favorite events at AI House. Five entrepreneurs on stage, pitching their big vision, with a lineup of AI House experts offering candid feedback and Q&A. A great way to get a glimpse at how Seattle founders are innovating — and how investors are thinking about the impact of AI. Here's what we saw this week: — Voice AI that makes check-in calls for rural Medicare patients. — An index of construction specs that pulls product details out of building specification documents and public filings to prioritize sales leads for building-product manufacturers. — Guardrails for AI agents that provide real-time visibility and control over what agents can access and do inside a company. — Proof of human, using physics: A check that flashes light and plays inaudible sound on an ordinary phone to confirm a real person is physically there. — Self-driving inference optimization: Software that tests models, hardware and serving settings to find the fastest, cheapest way to run each AI workload. Thanks to everyone who attended — we always love the networking before and after these events. Thanks to Kyle Lui of Bling Capital, Vikas Kamran of Gradial, and Sri Chandrasekar of AI House for judging. Our next Pitch Please will be later this month — with some Halloween themes in store! Follow our Luma page for updates and see you there: https://luma.com/aihouse
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Pierre Martin reacted on thisPierre Martin reacted on this🏃 The Rise and Run: a #RelFestChicago tradition since 2018, started by Ari Kaplan in memory of his friend Alex Hanan, who battled lung cancer. Discover how this inspiring community tradition came to life. 👇
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Pierre Martin liked thisPierre Martin liked thisI’m hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to build directly alongside me at Altara. A few things that could make you a great fit: 1. You crave proximity to real-world, customer impact. You're willing to jump on planes, step onto factory floors, and work alongside scientists to turn physical bottlenecks into scalable software. 2. You plan to start a generational company someday and want to be on the frontlines of a fast-growing startup in SF to learn how to do it. 3. Bonus points if you have firsthand experience in a lab or semiconductor fab. We are reinventing how scientists and engineers work at the frontier of energy, materials, and compute. You'll help shape what Altara builds, how we win, and what this company becomes. If this is intriguing to you, apply below.
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Pierre Martin liked thisFirst RelFest as Gavel now part of Relativity . Pretty special one. We’re launching Relativity aiR for Drafting, built on Gavel’s powerful technology and now securely connected to millions of matter documents. That changes the ambition. This isn’t just contract review or a chatbot sitting on top of a few files. It’s about producing defensible work product grounded in the actual matter, with enough depth to handle real legal complexity. My team has also been showing more of claiR: letting lawyers converse with huge corpora throughout the lifecycle of a case, from early strategy and discovery to drafting, trial, and soon, on the go. When you can reason across petabytes of legal data, the opportunity is much bigger than chat. It’s turning matter knowledge and intelligence into action, at unprecedented scale. Super proud of this team for absolutely crushing demo after demo, and of how quickly we’ve gone from acquisition to building together with real ambition. If you haven't seen the demo sparkle from Laura Goodfellow you are seriously missing out. And huge credit to Dorna Moini Phil Saunders Chris Brown Elise Tropiano for an inspiring keynote. Great catching up with Elizabeth Grabowski Parikh from Courtroom AI too. Change is in the aiR. #Relativity #RelFest #RelFest2026 #Legal #Technology #Startup #Gavel #BuiltOnGavel
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University of Illinois Young Alumni Achievement Award
University of Illinois
Presented to Dr. Pierre Martin in recognition for delivering high impact products and outstanding leadership in the software engineering industry.
Only 33 alumni have ever been honored with this award in the history of the University of Illinois.
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