Chariot Claims Raises $10M to Scale Consumer Claims Against Hidden Fees and Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions

Chariot Claims raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners. The New York-based startup helps consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy violations, hidden fees and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel. The round also included Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff Ventures, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Graph Ventures and Vermilion Ventures. The financing brings Chariot’s total funding to $15.7 million, including a $3.6 million seed investment in April 2025 and an earlier pre-seed round.

Chariot works with law firms to identify potential cases, find affected consumers and gather the information needed to pursue compensation. Consumers complete an intake questionnaire that assesses preliminary eligibility in real time, after which Chariot reviews pre-qualified claims through technology and human oversight before sending them to partner law firms. Chariot says it is not a law firm and does not file claims itself; instead, it handles parts of the administrative workflow while partner firms handle the legal claims. The company charges law firms flat service fees, while the firms work on a contingency basis.

The raise comes as legal tech funding remains a major investor focus. Crunchbase News reported that funding to the legal tech space hit a record high last year with $4.6 billion invested, and that legal tech startups have pulled in more than $3 billion so far this year. Chariot plans to use the new funding primarily for hiring and product development, including AI tools to review cases and help determine whether consumers qualify to participate. The company currently has about 15 employees and is breaking even, according to the article.

Chariot looks for potential cases involving privacy violations, hidden fees and other consumer complaints by scanning public records, including federal court filings, and using AI to analyze allegations for partner law firms. The company typically receives more than 200,000 claim submissions per month and has taken on roughly 80 cases since shifting to its current business model just over a year ago. Chariot also tests ads to find consumers who may have claims, a practice that has drawn cease-and-desist letters from some companies over the use of company names and trademarks. Founder and CEO Zim Hang said the broader goal is to make alleged consumer abuses more costly for businesses: “We want to make unethical unprofitable.”