Real venture backing behind the Word-plugin approach
Qanooni raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Village Global, with participation from Oryx Fund, part of Salica Investments, TA Ventures and angel investors — a genuine, independently reported funding round for a company founded in 2024 by Anuscha Iqbal, Ziyaad Ahmed and Karim Shiyab. That backing is validation for its specific bet: meeting lawyers inside Microsoft Word and Outlook rather than asking them to adopt a new standalone platform.
It holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification, runs on Microsoft Azure, and states client data is not used to train its models — a real, verifiable security posture for a young company.