SAN FRANCISCO — California judicial analytics startup Gavelytics has expanded its platform to include data for the San Francisco County Superior Court.

The move comes after the company, which previously offered data only for state courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, announced a $3.2 million fund raise in March.

The platform is targeted in part at helping lawyers decide whether to issue a peremptory challenge at the outset of their case, also known as “papering” a judge, as well as how to steer the litigation once it is off and running.

Gavelytics founder and CEO Rick Merrill announced the expansion in a press release Tuesday, saying it would be “a powerful tool” for attorneys litigating in San Francisco.

The company's analytics show that, of the two complex litigation judges in San Francisco, “one is dramatically more defense-friendly at bench trial,” the release said. “However, the other judge is more likely to grant summary judgment.”

Gavelytics did not identify either judge in the release. The two complex litigation judges at San Francisco Superior Court are Judges Mary Wiss and Curtis Karnow.

The company said it has also identified which San Francisco judges are most likely to grant different types of motions, including discovery motions, and which judges receive the most peremptory challenges by filing party and case type.

Gavelytics launched in 2017 with a focus on providing data about California state courts. Merrill is a former Greenberg Traurig lawyer and told Legaltech News last year he founded the company after growing frustrated with anecdotal information being shared on email threads.

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The development is another sign of the legal analytics space growing increasingly crowded, although not every company has the same focus. Lex Machina, for example, has chiefly offered data on federal courts, although it recently launched a module for the Delaware Court of Chancery. Judicata, another California-focused legal tech company, is primarily geared toward enabling attorneys to do more intelligent legal research.

Gavelytics has raised a total of $5.7 million since 2016, including a funding round that netted the company $3.2 million at the beginning of March.

Merrill has said the funding will enable the company to “accelerate” its development road map for other states. Later in the year, Gavelytics also plans to add arbitration rulings to its data set and to release a searchable trial court database for judges in Los Angeles County.