The company recently closed a $2.5 million funding round and has plans to introduce a Spanish to English translation capability and support for multi-language recordings. It also intends to expand its team of seven employees to around 10 in the new year, with a focus on marketing and communications. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, Mehrotra believes it has created a "burning platform for change" in the criminal court system.
Key takeaways:
- Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove founded JusticeText, a startup that automatically transcribes body cam footage, interrogation videos and more for public defenders, enabling attorneys to take time-stamped notes, create video clips and share evidence with their colleagues.
- JusticeText also offers a feature that provides several-sentence summaries of each piece of uploaded evidence and a ChatGPT-powered tool, MirandaAI, that allows attorneys to ask free-form questions about their discovery.
- Despite concerns about data breaches and the accuracy of transcriptions, JusticeText has won over clients and expanded its customer base, which now includes the state-wide public defenders systems in Massachusetts and Kentucky.
- In the near term, JusticeText plans to introduce a Spanish to English translation capability and support for “multi-language” recordings, as well as grow its team of seven employees to around 10, with an emphasis on expanding its marketing and communications function.