Exclusive: Chariot Raises $10M To Help Consumers Fight Back Against Hidden Fees And Hard-To-Cancel Subscriptions

figure — while helping another founder build an app that collected information about class-action settlements, Zim Hang came to learn how challenging it can be for consumers to seek compensation from companies they believe wronged them. He also discovered mass arbitration, a way to pursue individual claims when companies’ contracts prevent customers from joining class actions.

At the same time, he also realized that relatively few law firms were set up to manage thousands of those claims at once. Zim Hang, founder and CEO of Chariot Claims. (Courtesy photo) That gap became the basis for Chariot Claims, which has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners to help consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy violations, hidden fees and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff Ventures, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Graph Ventures and Vermilion Ventures also participated in the financing. The New York-based startup works with law firms to identify potential cases, find affected consumers and gather information needed to pursue compensation. The round brings its total funding to $15.7 million, which includes a $3.6 million seed investment in April 2025 and an earlier pre-seed round. Chariot’s latest round comes amid a surge in investment across legal tech. Funding to the legal tech space hit a record high last year, with $4.6 billion invested, per Crunchbase data. So far this year, legal tech startups have pulled in more than $3 billion, putting the sector on pace to match or exceed the 2025 total. The Chariot process works like this: For each case, consumers complete an intake questionnaire that assesses preliminary eligibility in real time. Chariot’s team then reviews these pre-qualified claims through a multi-layered system of technology and human oversight before sending it to the partner law firm handling the case. Hang, the company’s CEO, told Crunchbase News that Chariot typically receives more than 200,000 claim submissions per month and that it has taken on roughly 80 cases since shifting to its current business model just over a year ago. The company has about 15 employees and is currently breaking even, he said. It plans to spend the new funding primarily on hiring and product development, including AI tools to review cases and help determine whether consumers qualify to participate. A gap in consumer legal services Chariot is Hang’s third startup.