AI Legal Tech Startup Rulemapping Secures €12M Funding

Rulemapping Group has raised €12 million in a fresh funding round, according to information from the company's press release. The investment was supported by the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND), Hidden Peak Capital, and several notable business angels.

The Berlin-based startup specializes in transforming complex legal and regulatory texts into machine-readable formats, enabling the automation of administrative procedures with full transparency. Their technology could dramatically reduce processing times for bureaucratic procedures from months or years to just weeks.

"Our solution combines artificial intelligence with a rule-based framework to deliver legally sound, transparent decision support – without the risk of hallucinations," explained CEO Till Behnke, who previously co-founded successful social impact platforms betterplace.org and nebenan.de.

The new capital will be directed toward expanding Rulemapping's AI development capabilities and growing teams across business development, AI engineering, and legal engineering functions.

The technology, developed by Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidenbach, uses a method called "Rulemapping" that visualizes complex rule structures into decision trees that machines can process. This approach mirrors legal reasoning while making it accessible to automated systems.

Looking ahead, the company aims to establish an open-source Rulemapping standard to accelerate public administration processes across Europe. Their innovation addresses one of modern society's most pressing challenges: how to handle increasingly complex regulations efficiently while maintaining transparency and traceability in decision-making.

Since 2022, SPRIN-D has supported the development of the Rule Mapping standard as a foundational innovation for dealing with administrative complexity.