Paula Reichenberg
CEO & Co-Founder
Neur.on AI Solutions SA
Fribourg, Switzerland
I am a Swiss lawyer, INSEAD MBA graduate, and tech-savvy serial entrepreneur. My mission is to bridge the gap between the legal, financial, and digital worlds.
My organisation
About me
Paula Reichenberg, CEO, Co-Founder
Lic. iur (Fribourg 2003, summa cum laude)
Attorney-at-Law (Zurich bar - 2006, predicate "excellent")
MBA INSEAD (2007, Dean's List)
EPFL Data Science for Managers (Feb 2020)
2.5yrs in the M&A and Capital Markets Team of Bär & Karrer (R. Watter) (2004-2006, Zurich)
15yrs of experience as an entrepreneur and manager in the legal industry (2007-today, Geneva, Zurich, Fribourg):
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Successfully boot-strapped Hieronymus – Translations by Lawyers for Lawyers, and turned it to one of the top 3 legal & financial translation boutiques in Switzerland, serving most major law firms and legal departments of banks and insurance companies, the Swiss Stock Exchange and state entities (e.g. Financial Market Authority, Takeover board, Fed. Dpt of Finance).
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Created LexMachina, the first Neural Machine Translation Engine for Swiss lawyers (2018).
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Co-founded Neur.on as a tech spin-off from Hieronymus, raising CHF1.6mn (2022) angel round, as well as a CHF 855K bridge loan (2024) from a select panel of investors from the international LegalTech and legal & financial publishing industries.
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Under her initiative, her companies were awarded a CHF 320K and a CHF 430K Innosuisse R&D Grant for the set-up of a legal data processing pipeline and the development of industry-specific NLP microservices, as well as a CHF 955K non dilutive equity grant (Startup Innovation Project, 2024).
Broad industry network and detailed knowledge of law firm processes & operations
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Vice-President of the Swiss LegalTech Association
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Member of the Strategic Council of HES-SO (tenure 2025-2028)
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Member of the Industry Board of the Swiss AI Center for SMEs
Accolades
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Neur.on won the 2024 Fintech Awards (Early Stage category)
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Neur.on was nominated 2nd most innovative company in Switzerland in terms of Culture of Innovation by Bilanz (2024)
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UBS Female Founder Awards 2024: Nominated top-10 Finalist (Award ceremony to be held on December 14th)
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Nominated “Digital Shaper 2023” by the magazine BILANZ and “one of 100 personalities who shaped French-Speaking Switzerland in 2023” by LE TEMPS
My organisation
Language remains one of the biggest barriers to international growth and cross-border transactions. Legal and financial translations represent a growing multibillion-dollar global market, yet they remain underserved despite significant advancements in NLP technology. In 2024, lawyers and finance professionals still face two frustrating realities: outsourced translations often fail to meet quality expectations and come at high costs, while using machine translation requires labor-intensive, often non-billable effort to review and correct outputs.
Enter Neur.on.
We are reinventing how legal and financial translations are delivered worldwide by fostering seamless collaboration between AI-generated content, legal and financial professionals, and expert linguists.
Our cutting-edge suite of specialized AI agents bridges the gap between generic machine translation and the precision the industry demands. Fully integrated into MS Word, our tools provide lawyers with instant access to a unique repository of industry-specific multilingual data while enabling secure, efficient interaction with their own datasets.
Our clients include law firms, banks, insurance companies, government authorities, legal and financial publishers, as well as FinTech SaaS providers.
Through a pioneering partnership with Swisscom, we are set to become the first company to offer a fully Swiss, sovereign infrastructure—ensuring the highest levels of security and compliance to clients worldwide.
Speaker sessions (1)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
11:30 - 12:35
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