Ryan Steadman

SaaS Revenue & Strategy Architecture | Legal & Fintech | A2J | AI/ML | CxO/CRO/COO | Start & Scale-ups, Operator, Seed Investor | Behavioral Economics & Change | People Analytics | Customer Success | Data, Product Geek

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Seed Investor
Jan 2025
Lega is an LLM-Governance platform specifically designed to provide law firms and enterprises with a secure and efficient way to explore, assess, and implement generative AI technologies. Responding to the breakneck pace of change on the AI landscape, Lega empowers organizations to embark on their generative AI journey with confidence by enabling them to: - Safely explore different large language models through a single enterprise platform; - Effortlessly build and configure API-driven solutions in a few clicks; - Ensure secure solution access across the enterprise via Single Sign-On (SSO); - Enforce policy adherence with real-time compliance checkpoints; and - Analyze usage—across different solutions and LLMs—through a single, comprehensive audit trail.
Product Advisor, Seed Investor
Sep 2024
We provide associates with an intuitive tool to manage capacity, assignment preferences, and training needs. By integrating practice management data, we give partners and resource managers real-time insights into resources and capabilities, enabling more efficient and sustainable matter staffing.
Seed Investor
Apr 2022
Capacity is a work allocation platform that empowers law firms to delight their clients, champion their people, hold true to their vision, and face the future with confidence. Using tailor-made allocation algorithms, Capacity ensures that a firm’s strategic objectives – whatever they may be – are hardwired into each and every delegation decision. The result is optimised resource management, providing delegators with all the information they need to make the very best staffing decisions, all in one simple, easy-to-use interface. Our mission? To embed your vision in every decision.
Seed Investor
Jul 2018
HerculesAI is a generative AI company that brings the power of large language models inside the security perimeter of enterprises. Its powerful operating and orchestration platform, Hercules, enables enterprises to quickly create, deploy, and run generative AI apps without compromising security standards. These apps can augment knowledge workers in any domain, resulting in higher revenue, improved profitability, and enhanced worker satisfaction. To learn more visit https://www.hercules.ai
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2025
Seed Investor
Jan 2025
Lega is an LLM-Governance platform specifically designed to provide law firms and enterprises with a secure and efficient way to explore, assess, and implement generative AI technologies. Responding to the breakneck pace of change on the AI landscape, Lega empowers organizations to embark on their generative AI journey with confidence by enabling them to: - Safely explore different large language models through a single enterprise platform; - Effortlessly build and configure API-driven solutions in a few clicks; - Ensure secure solution access across the enterprise via Single Sign-On (SSO); - Enforce policy adherence with real-time compliance checkpoints; and - Analyze usage—across different solutions and LLMs—through a single, comprehensive audit trail.
2024
Product Advisor, Seed Investor
Sep 2024
We provide associates with an intuitive tool to manage capacity, assignment preferences, and training needs. By integrating practice management data, we give partners and resource managers real-time insights into resources and capabilities, enabling more efficient and sustainable matter staffing.
Senior Client Partner
Jan 2024
More than a practice management system, Fulcrum Global Technologies’ Solution ecosystem—Fulcrum Snap—is the industry’s most powerful solution suite running on the world’s largest software platform, SAP. The ecosystem encompasses all functional areas of law firm management, including time entry, matter management, new business intake and conflicts, clients and matters, time and cost, WIP, billing, e-billing, collections, financials, HCM, CRM, and comprehensive analytics. Fulcrum Snap incorporates standardized, best-practice, pre-configured processes that bring commercial discipline and true scalability to law firms’ operations. Available in the cloud or on-premise, with SAP’s HANA in-memory database as the foundation, we provide real-time, fully mobile, secure information throughout your firm from a single, global instance—one version of the truth. With world-class support, BPO services, and over 20 SAP-qualified best-of-breed Rapid Deployment Solutions that implement quickly and affordably, Fulcrum GT’s commitment to strategic, digital transformation and client success is unparalleled in the legal industry. Our software solutions have been acknowledged as a British Legal Awards Innovation Award winner and Chicago Innovation award finalist.
2023
3E Cloud GTM Ops (acquired by TPG Capital)
Jun 2023
Elite is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently. Our solutions lie at the heart of a large proportion of the world’s largest, most successful and innovative law firms. In fact, three-quarters of the Am Law 200 and four-fifths of the Global 200 rely on at least one Elite solution to help drive their firms’ business operations into the future. As more firms make cloud solutions a core part of their technology strategies for the future, Elite is leading the way in supporting customers as they move their financial and operational systems into the cloud. To date, Elite has supported more than 400 firms around the world in their move to 3E in the cloud.
2022
3E Cloud GTM Ops (3E acquired by TPG Capital)
Oct 2022
Thomson Reuters (TSX/NDAQ: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information on Thomson Reuters, visit tr.com and for the latest world news, reuters.com.
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