The LegalTech Ecosystem in Wales

throughout our journey and it is undoubted that if we weren’t who we are and where we are, Kuva would not exist." 314

Awen Collective Ltd 315 Founded in 2017 by Jules Farrow-Lesnianski and Daniel Lewis, 316 Awen Collective is a cyber security software company whose mission is “to make society safer by increasing the cyber resiliency of our critical national infrastructures and manufacturers 317 ”. The company provides cybersecurity risk assessments and offers software packages for vulnerability assessment and compliance reporting.

Awen is a member of Cyber Wales and the South Wales Cyber Security Cluster, as well as Global Welsh. 318 It was ranked 25 in the Welsh Tech 50 in 2020 and continues to grow. 319 In an interview with Business News Wales, the Awen Collective team commented on the benefits of being based in Wales: We’ve found that Wales is a great place to live, and by creating great jobs here, we can attract great people to work for us. We also have some very good ecosystems here, including Technology Connected, CyberWales, and Global Welsh, which all do great work in promoting Wales in the UK and across the globe. These ecosystems are well supported by Welsh Government. 320

DocFlite 321 Founded in 2016 by Elaine Amas and TJ Amas 322 , DocFlite focuses on customer onboarding, providing software solutions to manage documents, in particular quotes, “and ultimately streamline customer acquisition 323 ”.

314 Kane Fulton, “Meet the Rising Stars 4.0 Regional Winners: Wales’ leading early-stage scaleups” (Tech Nation, 3 December 2021), available at https://technation.io/news/meet-the-rising-stars-4-0-regional-winners-wales-leading-early-stage-scaleups/. 315 See http://www.awencollective.com/. 316 Awen Collective, “Team Awen”, available at https://www.awencollective.com/team. 317 Awen Collective, “About”, available at https://www.awencollective.com/about. 318 Awen Collective, “Friends of Awen”, available at https://www.awencollective.com/friends. 319 Business Cloud, “Wales tech 50”, available at https://businesscloud.co.uk/wales-tech-50/. 320 Technology News Wales, “What is Awen Collective?” (May 2020), available at https://businessnewswales.com/what-is-awen- collective/. 321 See https://docflite.com/. 322 PitchBook, “DocFlite Overview”, available at https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/277289-65#team. 323 Fintech Wales, “The FinTech Five – 23rd December 2022” (December 2022), available at https://fintechwales.org/news/the- fintech-five-23rd-december-2022/.

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