MANZ also joins Series-C of Europe’s Legal AI

• Partnership with leading European legal publishers provides Noxtua with a strong and independent anchoring in the European Legal AI market

• C.H.BECK, Germany’s leading legal publisher, becomes with largest investment of the media group the new majority shareholder in AI company Noxtua

• MANZ, Austria’s leading legal publisher, joins as a new investor

BERLIN/MUNICH/VIENNA, September 23, 2026 – With Germany’s C.H.BECK as its new majority shareholder and Austria’s MANZ, Europe’s Legal AI Noxtua has closed its Series C funding round totaling more than 100 million EURO. Noxtua’s partnership with leading independent European legal and tax publishers demonstrates a commitment to Europe’s Legal AI and brings together powerful AI solutions and reliable legal expertise from across Europe in a secure and sovereign AI platform for legal professionals. This partnership with Noxtua is also the largest investment of the more than 260 years old publishing house C.H.BECK.

For the AI company Noxtua, these independent legal publishers offer as strategic partners new opportunities for long-term planning. The collaboration as part of the Series C round supports Noxtua’s ongoing development as well as its pan-European expansion into additional markets. C.H.BECK had already invested in Noxtua during last year’s Series B round, while MANZ Verlag is joining as a new investor.

Technology and curated content partner for Europe’s Legal AI

“We are pleased to be taking the next steps in our expansion together with C.H.BECK and MANZ as investors in our Series C funding round. We are developing Noxtua based on exclusive content from leading legal publishers across the continent, and have already built, among other things, Europe’s largest legal database and Europe’s largest network of independent legal publishers. The joint investment by C.H.BECK and MANZ in Noxtua is therefore also a strong signal to the market,” emphasizes Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk (CEO and founder of Noxtua).

“Combining high-quality data with innovative AI technology is the recipe for success in a rapidly changing market. That is why we at C.H.BECK are proud to be Noxtua’s majority shareholder following its latest financing round. As a publisher with a long-standing tradition, this commitment together with MANZ is also an investment in the future of the law. Noxtua’s vision goes hand in hand with our values as an independent family-owned company with a special responsibility for the legal system in Europe,” explains Prof. Dr. Klaus Weber (member of the Executive Board at C.H.BECK).

“For more than 40 years, MANZ has played a pioneering role in the digitization of the legal sector. Trustworthy content from legal publishers has always formed the foundation upon which legal experts throughout Europe work—and which must be protected. As a publisher, we also guarantee that the quality of legal content is maintained, even—and especially—in the age of AI. That is why this investment round is the next logical step for us. We are proud to be actively shaping the future of Legal AI through this Series C financing round together with C.H.BECK and Noxtua,” highlights Mag. Susanne Stein-Pressl (Managing Partner at MANZ).

Legal AI based on exclusive curated legal data

Founded in Berlin in 2017 out of research at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the scale-up launched the first version of Noxtua in 2024. Since then, the AI company has experienced continuous growth and now has more than 30,000 users, around 100 employees, and six locations across Europe (Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Zagreb, Munich, Fribourg). Europe’s Legal AI covers the entire workflow of legal writing, including research, analysis of complex legal issues, and document drafting. Its jurisdiction-specific Legal AI Workspaces are based on exclusive, curated legal data from leading European legal publishers (including C.H.BECK, MANZ, Helbing Lichtenhahn, Wydawnictwo C.H.Beck, Nakladatelství C. H. Beck, Nakladateľstvo C.H. Beck, Blendow Group, Ciela Norma).

Founded in 1763, the publishing house C.H.BECK had already come on board as the lead investor in April 2025 as part of the Series B funding round, which was, at the time, the largest funding round in Europe for Legal AI. That same year, the publisher and the AI company jointly launched the Beck-Noxtua Legal AI Workspace in Germany. C.H.BECK is Germany’s leading legal publisher; with more than 60 million documents covering all relevant areas of law and the most comprehensive collection of relevant legal commentaries, beck-online is the most extensive legal database in the German-speaking world and is essential for the daily work of legal professionals.

MANZ has also been collaborating with Noxtua since 2025 on the MANZ-Noxtua Legal AI Workspace. As one of Austria’s leading legal publishers, the company has been driving important innovations in the legal market for more than 175 years. With the launch of the first legal database (RDB) in 1986, MANZ has played a pioneering role in the digitization of legal content for 40 years. MANZ-Noxtua builds on this tradition and is consciously pursuing a European approach: partnering with Noxtua, it brings together specialized information from various publishers on a single platform, thereby fundamentally increasing the efficiency of legal work.

With its Series C funding round and the accompanying strengthening of its publishing alliances, Noxtua is entering a new phase and is therefore restructuring its investor base; investors Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, CMS, Dentons, and Dominik Schiener are making room to align with the scale-up’s deepened content- and strategy-focused direction. The leading law firms CMS and Dentons will continue their close collaboration with Noxtua as key anchor clients in the future; CMS co-initiated Noxtua in 2024 as a Legal AI specifically tailored to the high demands of legal professionals.