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Cooley is a leading global law firm providing strategic legal counsel to innovative companies and investors across technology, life sciences, capital markets, M&A, litigation and regulatory matters. observed

fresh · evidence 6d ago 7 sources no confidence data
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Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.connectdev.cooley.com product surface 06-19 api.connectuat.cooley.com product surface 06-19 api.connect.cooley.com product surface 06-19 api.engagedev.cooley.com product surface 06-20 api.engageuat.cooley.com product surface 05-12 api.engage.cooley.com product surface 05-12 beta.cooley.com launch prep 02-17 staging.cooley.com launch prep 02-17 dashboard.cooley.com product surface 01-25

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Current round

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Opportunity & risk

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VIX signals 9 hard signals across 1 source ▾

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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Cooley GO – legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes, formation to IPO ↗
  2. rumor The Meteoric Acceleration in Series A Valuations ↗
  3. rumor The Meteoric Acceleration in Series A Valuations ↗

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 152 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 152 WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May 2018-05-15 ↗

Raw observations 22 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Cooley observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
common_name Cooley observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 152 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894385", "title": "Cooley GO – legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes, formation to IPO", "points": 1, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_typ observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894385", "title": "Cooley GO – legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes, formation to IPO", "points": 1, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_typ observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894385", "title": "Cooley GO – legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes, formation to IPO", "points": 1, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_typ observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894385", "title": "Cooley GO – legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes, formation to IPO", "points": 1, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_typ observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894385", "title": "Cooley GO – legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes, formation to IPO", "points": 1, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_typ observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075514", "title": "WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May", "points": 152, "created_at": "2018-05-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075514", "title": "WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May", "points": 152, "created_at": "2018-05-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075514", "title": "WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May", "points": 152, "created_at": "2018-05-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-05-15 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075514", "title": "WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May", "points": 152, "created_at": "2018-05-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-05-15 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075514", "title": "WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May", "points": 152, "created_at": "2018-05-15"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-05-15 normalized 0.20
description They started serving startup founders directly with a software platform. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
description Cooley is a leading global law firm providing strategic legal counsel to innovative companies and investors across technology, life sciences, capital markets, M&A, litigation and regulatory matters. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.70
domain www.cooley.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.95
index.ai_tie NOT_AI observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
website_url https://www.cooley.com observed enrichment 2026-07-24 normalized 0.75
website_url https://www.cooley.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.80