iManage

About iManage

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by iManage

All products by iManage reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

iManage WorkAI Document Processing

Document, email, and knowledge management for law firms and professional services

Free7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores iManage

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed iManage's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.9 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who iManage competes with, and how they differ.

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NetDocuments

A cloud-native, legal-only document management system built as SaaS from the ground up rather than migrated from on-prem software; NetDocuments and iManage run head-to-head in most large-firm DMS RFPs, and iManage itself publishes a comparison page against it.

Litera7.6/10

Focuses on document drafting, comparison and contract-analysis workflows embedded directly in Microsoft Word and Outlook (Litera Flex, Kira Systems) rather than acting as the firm's system-of-record repository; it overlaps with iManage's document-lifecycle and AI contract-review features without replacing iManage's core DMS.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in iManage's history, with sources.

1. Jan 29, 2026Milestone

   Ask iManage expands to platform-wide AI-powered search

   iManage announced new capabilities for Ask iManage, its native AI assistant, moving from analysis of user-selected document sets to platform-wide search that answers natural-language questions with cited results across the firm's iManage Work repository. Generally available to all Ask iManage subscribers at no added cost.

   imanage.com
2. 2024Launch

   iManage launches Ask iManage, a native generative-AI assistant

   iManage launched Ask iManage, a secure AI assistant natively embedded in the iManage Work experience that lets users query and reason over documents, emails and other content without leaving the platform.

   imanage.com
3. Apr 11, 2023Funding

   Bain Capital Tech Opportunities makes minority growth investment

   iManage announced a strategic growth investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities to accelerate its cloud, governance, AI and workflow roadmap. Described by both parties as a minority investment; deal size was not disclosed.

   baincapital.com
4. Aug 24, 2020Acquisition

   iManage acquires Closing Folders, legal transaction management leader

   iManage acquired Closing Folders, the market leader in legal transaction management (LTM), adding automation and governance over deal documents from creation through closing.

   imanage.com
5. Sep 7, 2018Acquisition

   iManage acquires Elegrity, a risk and compliance software provider

   iManage acquired Elegrity, a San Francisco-based provider of client-intake and conflicts-checking software for law firms, extending iManage's governance capabilities across the matter lifecycle. Elegrity's roughly two dozen employees joined iManage.

   lexblog.com
6. May 25, 2017Acquisition

   iManage acquires RAVN Systems, a UK-based AI company

   iManage acquired RAVN Systems, a UK-based artificial-intelligence company founded in 2010 whose platform organizes, discovers and summarizes information from documents and unstructured data, announced at iManage ConnectLive Chicago 2017. RAVN's technology was integrated into iManage Work.

   imanage.com
7. Jul 21, 2015Milestone

   iManage completes management-backed buyout from HP

   iManage's executive management team completed a buyout from Hewlett-Packard, spinning the business back off as an independent software provider after more than a year of negotiations. Co-founder Neil Araujo became CEO of the newly independent company.

   law.com
8. Oct 3, 2011Acquisition

   HP completes $11.1B acquisition of Autonomy, bringing iManage under HP

   Hewlett-Packard completed its $11.1 billion acquisition of UK-based Autonomy Corporation, which had acquired iManage's then-parent Interwoven in 2009. iManage became an HP business unit as a result.

   archive.nytimes.com
9. Jan 22, 2009Acquisition

   Autonomy agrees to acquire Interwoven, iManage's parent, for $775M

   Autonomy Corporation announced an agreement to acquire Interwoven, the enterprise content-management vendor that owned iManage since 2003, for approximately $775 million, passing iManage's ownership to Autonomy.

   reuters.com
10. Nov 18, 2003Acquisition

    Interwoven completes acquisition of iManage, Inc.

    Interwoven, Inc. completed its acquisition of iManage, Inc., merging iManage into a wholly-owned Interwoven subsidiary. Under the agreed terms, iManage shareholders received Interwoven stock plus approximately $30.5 million in cash.

    sec.gov
11. April 1999Milestone

    NetRight Technologies renamed iManage, Inc.

    The company, incorporated in Illinois in 1995 as NetRight Technologies, Inc., changed its name to iManage, Inc. in April 1999 ahead of its public offering.

    sec.gov
12. October 1995Founded

    NetRight Technologies (iManage's predecessor) incorporated in Illinois

    iManage's predecessor entity, NetRight Technologies, Inc., was incorporated in Illinois in October 1995 and reincorporated in Delaware in December 1996.

    sec.gov