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status_detail → add: control changed in March 2024; co-founder Timothy Pullan ceased to be a PSC on 14 March 2023; Duncan Painter has been a director since 24 May 2022 (reason: CH PSC and officers; the record's latest event is the 2020 Series A)" } ], "held": [], "same_as": null, "package1_id": null, "type": "Companies", "category": "legal", "function": "Cambridge software that reads and pre-screens contracts automatically for lawyers.", "affiliation": "Start-ups", "sources": [ "https://www.uktech.news/tag/thoughtriver", "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=thoughtriver", "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10007469/persons-with-significant-control", "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10007469/officers", "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10007469" ], "source_quotes": [ { "url": "https://www.uktech.news/tag/thoughtriver", "quotes": [ "ThoughtRiver raises $10M Series A to expand globally", "the market leader in automated contract review and pre-screening" ], "accessed": "2026-10-29", "trade": false, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=thoughtriver", "quotes": [ "THOUGHTRIVER LIMITED\" \"10007469\" \"Incorporated on 16 February 2016" ], "accessed": "2026-10-29", "trade": false, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10007469/persons-with-significant-control", "quotes": [ "Mr Duncan Anthony Painter", "Ownership of shares – More than 50% but less than 75%\" (notified 27 March 2024); 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its managed-services team went to Scissero in December 2025 and Microsoft hired at least 18 former staff in January 2026; the UK company is still listed as active at Companies House, with accounts overdue, and filed a confirmation statement on 24 March 2026. 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Companies House shows the company active, with its registered office moved in December 2025 to the care of investor Episode 1 Ventures, and its 2025 accounts overdue.", "uk_status": "uk", "company": { "ch_number": "11400135", "registered_office": "C/O Episode 1 Ventures Llp, 112-116 New Oxford Street, London, England, WC1A 1HH", "incorporated": "2018-06-06", "legal_form": "ltd", "owner_or_acquirer": "null (managed-services team sold to Scissero)", "headcount": null, "ch_number_clean": "11400135", "companies_house_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11400135", "ch_note": null }, "place": { "text": "London (WC1A 1HH)", "postcode": "WC1A 1HH", "lat": 51.516697, "lng": -0.129336, "region": "England: London", "admin_district": "Camden", "geocoded": "postcodes.io" }, "people": [ { "name": "Richard Robinson", "role": "Co-founder and CEO (named by Legal IT Insider as not joining Scissero)", "from": null, "source": "https://legaltechnology.com/2025/12/10/scisseros-acquisition-of-robin-ai-the-combined-offering-fits-hand-in-glove/" }, { "name": "Carina Negreanu", "role": "former Chief Technology Officer, now at Microsoft", "from": "to 2026", "source": "https://news.bgov.com/private-equity/microsoft-brings-former-robin-ai-legal-tech-employees-into-fold" } ], "money": [ { "kind": "note", "amount": null, "currency": null, "date": null, "detail": null, "raw": "null (Bloomberg Government reports at least US$61.5m raised by late 2024; 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The leads file reported a £13.3m Series A led by GV in October 2024, but no source for it could be opened in this session. 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The company could not be identified at Companies House (the name is shared by many companies), so current status is not confirmed.", "one_line": "Software that automatically draws diagrams of complex business deals, such as corporate structures and organisation charts.", "description": "Jigsaw is a London-headquartered start-up, with US offices in New York, Chicago and Miami, founded by Stephen Scanlan (chief executive) and Travis Leon, a former Merrill Lynch commodities trader. Its platform visualises complex business deals and generates corporate-structure and organisation diagrams. UKTN reported a $15m (£12m) round led by Exor Ventures in April 2024, with angels linked to Linklaters, Morgan Stanley and KKR. Its legal entity was not identified. 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