EstateMin raises €1m pre-seed for trust and estate law-firm software

EstateMin raises €1m pre-seed for trust and estate law-firm software

21 October 2026: EstateMin, which makes software that carries a trust and estate matter from client intake to court filing, says it has raised €1 million (about $1.1 million) in pre-seed funding. NDRC and First Port Syndicate invested alongside angels Mike Hanrahan, Moira McKenna and Conor Stanley and others, and Enterprise Ireland came in through its High Potential Start-Up programme.

Not yet independently verified. This rests on EstateMin's own post. The revenue growth, estate value and time savings are the company's figures, the dollar amount is its own conversion, and no lead investor or valuation is named. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

The company was founded in Ireland and now gives New York as its base. It says the money will go on winning customers across the US, a larger go-to-market team, and more engineers and product staff.

A probate problem the founders lived

The company's post explains where the idea came from. Co-founder Oisín Dolphin went through probate after his father died and saw how manual and paper-heavy it still was. Chief executive Isabella Hughes, a law graduate and former legal executive, recognised the problem from her own working day: retyping information a client had already provided. The third co-founder, John Noonan, spent more than four years at Clio, the practice management platform, watching firms struggle with intake forms that had to be completed in one sitting.

"We've gone from working on that problem in Dogpatch Labs to building specifically for firms across America," says Hughes. "Now we want to see how far we can take it."

Built around Clio rather than against it

EstateMin's design choice is to work inside the tools firms already use. Its two-way Clio sync moves contacts, assets and documents in both directions and files documents in structured folders. Around that it offers:

• AI extraction of contacts, assets, account details and balances from wills, bank and brokerage statements and scanned documents
• a firm-branded client portal with magic-link login and automatic follow-ups, so staff do not chase clients for forms
• one record per matter holding every person, asset, debt and document, with a checklist that flags missing valuations
• court forms such as inventories filled from details entered once, with state coverage still expanding

Estate planning clients keep lifetime portal access and are nudged to keep their details current, which the company presents as a way for firms to keep those clients.

What the company says about traction

EstateMin says it supports law firms in all 50 states, that its revenue is growing 20 percent month over month, and that firms using it manage more than $770 million in estate value. It estimates firms save 5 to 7 hours on each estate planning matter and 5 to 10 hours on each administration. Silicon Republic, which reported the round the same day, gives 2024 as the founding year.

The product sits between two categories we track. Our catalogue lists 8 products in legal case management software and 12 in trust accounting software; EstateMin is narrower than either, aimed only at trust and estate practices that already run on Clio.

Company profile on TrustList: EstateMin

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Sources

• EstateMin: EstateMin Raises €1 Million Pre-Seed Round (post by Isabella Hughes), 21 October 2026
• Silicon Republic: Irish-founded legal tech EstateMin raises €1m to scale in the US, 21 October 2026