Our Mission
Turn the legal agreement from a value drain to a value gain
Our Journey
Like you, we work with legal agreements every day. In our experience, they describe what should happen - but do nothing to make it happen. Obligations are remembered, not enforced. Evidence is assembled after the fact. Performance depends on whoever happens to be paying attention.
Our co-founders went looking for a better solution and found only tools that made the problem slightly more manageable. Nothing that actually solved it.
What they realised was that the legal agreement itself needed to change - not the software around it. An agreement that could execute its own obligations, route tasks to the right people, capture evidence as part of normal operations, and maintain a legally certain record across its entire lifecycle. Not a document that describes what should happen. A system that makes it happen.
That is what Hunit builds. And it turns out the global economy has been waiting for it.
Hunit's team
Aaron Powers
CEO, co-founder
Track record of developing nascent sectors and early leaders within them. Founder of pioneering companies in mobile IP telephony, agricultural technology and the industry association of record for biological crop inputs, 2 listings, 17 M&A deals, ~$200m in equity raises.
Jan Berger
CCO, co-founder
Disrupter of mature sectors using technology focused business models and innovative finance. Realtime media streaming, IoT, internet-enabled P2P sales and mobile IP telephony. Multiple exits, LSE listing, Fortune 500 partnerships, Wall Street equities ($100m+ AUM).
Petr Bradatsch
CTO
Technical co-founder of Scout24 SE, now listed with a market cap of €6.5 billion. Founder and CEO of Data Flix, Hume and 21st Real Estate. Over 30 years of delivering cutting-edge technology across multiple sectors and at significant scale.
Luke Ledet
Director of Engineering
Luke Ledet, a native of the New Orleans area, has more than 10 years of experience developing and leading teams to create high-quality software.
Norbert Posch
Business Development
PhD in law, with senior roles at Apple and Samsung. Three successful exits including one with Apax Partners, and NASDAQ board experience at a £1.2 billion-revenue company.
Mark Gretton
Director
Head of Fixed Income & Investment Banking Clarksons. Previously head of CB for ABG Sundal Collier and Executive Director of Investment Banking UBS.
Torkell Vold
Advisor & GP at JV partner Tide Capital Management
GP, Tide Capital Management, $7B+ of energy transition maritime financing. Previously MD, Offshore Merchant Partners. $5 billion portfolio of oil and gas, shipping assets, MBA SDA Bocconi.
Steinar Nyrud
Strategic Advisor - Maritime
Leading maritime and international Attorney. Previously General Counsel and and MD Nordic Defence Club. Serves as a Director on a number of Boards.
Hunit is proud to be affiliated with the below organisations:
FUSE by A&O Shearman
Selected as 1 out of 15 from a pool of over 220+ companies, Hunit is fortunate to participate in A&O Shearman's prestigious Fuse programme. This opportunity gives us to collaborate with top legal experts at the world's 3rd largest lawfirm (by revenue). We're excited to be developing use cases alongside the firm’s forward-thinking clients.
With this invaluable partnership, Hunit is poised to lead the way in revolutionising the legal landscape.
LawtechUK
Hunit was 1 out of 8 UK LawTech companies selected for their innovative work within the legal sector for the 2022 cohort, and our participation was renewed for 2023.
LawtechUK is an initiative to help transform the UK legal sector through tech, delivered through a collaboration between Tech Nation, the LawtechUK Panel and the Ministry of Justice. It provides leadership, tools and a targeted work programme to help the legal and tech community deliver tomorrow’s legal services, today.
Microsoft for Startups ScaleUp Accelerator
We were 1 of 13 companies selected from 1000+ pool for Microsoft’s ScaleUp accelerator program. This provides us with access to technical and commercial support for the MS Co-Sell program, with 13,500 MS enterprise sales teams representing the Hunit platform in target verticals.
UK Trade & Investment Global Entrepreneur Program
We were 1 of 100 companies selected in 2020 to be relocated to the United Kingdom as part of the country's drive to extend is global technology leadership. This continuing programme provides us with support and introductions to key networks and stakeholders within the UK Government.