AI Infrastructure for the Future of Immigration

Founded: 2025

Invested: 2025 - Valor led first round

Sector: Legal AI, vertical SaaS

Why Valor Invested

Immigration law is one of the most complex, document-heavy, and time-constrained areas of legal practice—yet it has been historically underserved by modern software. Petitions routinely require lawyers to synthesize hundreds of pages of government memos, client evidence, and policy updates, often across multiple languages, under strict deadlines.

Valor led the seed investment in Visalaw in 2025 because the company was built inside the problem—by immigration lawyers, for immigration lawyers—and applies AI where it creates immediate, measurable leverage. Rather than offering generic legal tooling, Visalaw delivers a purpose-built platform that meaningfully reduces time, cost, and cognitive load in one of the most demanding legal specialties.

We also saw early signals that matter: rapid adoption, strong conversion, real revenue, and a founder-led team with deep domain credibility. This is AI as infrastructure.

What Visalaw Does

Visalaw is an AI-powered legal research and drafting platform designed exclusively for U.S. immigration law. The platform uses generative AI and a proprietary immigration-specific knowledge base to help attorneys draft petitions, analyze policy changes, and process massive document sets in minutes instead of days.

Core capabilities include:

• Petition drafting: Reduces drafting time from 15–25 hours to under 30 minutes

• AI legal research: Built on the largest dedicated immigration law library in the market

• Document summarization: High-level, page-by-page, chronological, issue-based, and client-ready summaries

• Translation workflows: AI-assisted translation and summarization to identify only the pages that require certified translation—dramatically reducing client costs

• Policy analysis: Rapid synthesis of new agency guidance, executive orders, and regulatory changes

Visalaw is designed to integrate into existing immigration workflows, with planned integrations into case-management systems and flexible firm-wide licensing.

Visalaw serves:

• Immigration law firms of all sizes

• Employment-based immigration practices supporting startups and venture-backed companies

• Asylum and humanitarian law practices handling multilingual, high-volume evidence

• In-house immigration teams managing compliance at scale

The platform is particularly valuable for firms operating under flat-fee pricing models, where efficiency directly improves margins without compromising quality.

Why It Matters

Immigration lawyers are drowning in information—but what they need is clarity, speed, and confidence.

Visalaw turns overwhelming inputs into actionable first drafts, enabling attorneys to:

• Respond to policy changes the same day

• Serve multilingual clients more effectively

• Reduce unnecessary translation and staff costs

• Spend more time on legal judgment and client strategy

AI does not replace legal expertise—but in immigration law, it is rapidly becoming foundational infrastructure for firms that want to scale responsibly.

Momentum Since Valor Invested

Since Valor led the seed round in 2025, Visalaw has moved quickly across product, revenue, team, and partnerships:

• Revenue traction: In its first year as a SaaS platform, Visalaw achieved well over a million in annual recurring revenue with zero churn and rapid expansion across major law firm clients.

• Product velocity: Expanded drafting, summarization, and multilingual workflows while maintaining strong security and ethical oversight.

• Team build-out: With Valor’s support, the company recruited and hired a new CTO and its first sales leader—laying the foundation for scalable growth.

• Strategic content partnership: Announced a content-sharing agreement with JD Supra, integrating trusted legal intelligence from more than 70,000 attorney contributors and reaching over 750,000 subscribers nationwide. This partnership materially deepens Visalaw’s research layer and keeps practitioners current as immigration policy evolves.

Founder-Led, Domain-Deep

Visalaw is led by Josh Waddell, who transitioned from legal operations into software development to solve the inefficiencies he experienced firsthand. The founding team includes some of the most respected practitioners in immigration law, including Greg Siskind and Jason Susser, founders of one of the top immigration law firms in the country.

This depth of practitioner involvement is reflected in the product’s credibility, adoption, and trust within the immigration bar.

Valor’s Perspective

Visalaw represents the kind of Southern, vertical-AI company Valor seeks to lead early:

deeply informed by its users, revenue-generating from day one, and focused on solving a real professional bottleneck with precision.

As immigration law continues to grow in complexity and urgency, Visalaw is building the operating system lawyers will rely on to practice faster, smarter, and with greater impact.