Solving the hardest problem in IP

The patent system is one of the world’s most valuable and least automated knowledge workflows. More than $200bn a year flows through processes that depend on dense technical documents, slow manual reviews, and legal expertise that takes years to train. Every stage of the patent lifecycle is high-stakes, prone to errors, and fragmented across teams, tools, and continents.

That’s what drew us to Solve Intelligence. They’re creating a set of tools that IP professionals have been asking for, quietly, for years. The mission: build the go-to AI-powered platform for inventors, in-house IP teams, and outside legal counsels to collaborate across every aspect of the patent process. 

Today, Solve announced its $40m Series B, just months after raising its Series A, bringing total funding to $55m. In the same period, annual recurring revenue has grown more than tenfold to reach eight figures and the company is profitable. More than 400 IP teams across six continents now rely on Solve, from global law firms like DLA Piper and Perkins Coie to corporate IP departments at Siemens and Avery Dennison.

We’re proud to be leading this round, alongside our friends at 20VC, Y Combinator, Operator Collective and a remarkable group of founders and operators that includes leaders from Canva, Deel, Ironclad, Cleo, Hugging Face, Pigment, and Tinder as well as Kevin Johnson, who founded Quinn Emanuel’s IP litigation practice.

A platform built for how IP actually works

The genius of Solve Intelligence is that it’s focused on giving IP professionals leverage rather than pushing them out of the workplace.

The platform supports every major part of patent preparation and prosecution: gathering ideas from inventors, drafting full applications, responding to office actions, managing divisionals and continuations, and coordinating global filings across jurisdictions. It works across technical domains such as life sciences, chemistry, hardware and software. And it lets in-house counsel and outside counsel collaborate through the same workflow and data layer.

The impact is already huge, with customers reporting time savings of 60-80% on core drafting tasks, with no loss of quality. Some teams have tripled their productivity and weekly usage per user is up more than 265% since Solve’s Series A earlier this year. 

When we spoke to users, we heard the same thing again and again: Solve is the first product that feels like it understands their work, from the structure, to arguments, citations and reasoning. It isn’t a general AI model applied to legal tasks, but is instead software that’s built for patents by starting with first principles. 

That’s why so many legal firms we spoke with tested every tool in the market and still landed on Solve. As one partner put it: they were simply “so far above what other people are doing.”

Security first, not security later

In patent law, confidentiality isn’t a feature, it’s central to the job. From day one, Solve has treated data protection as a core requirement rather than a compliance tickbox exercise. Their stance on security has been publicly praised by users such as the Special Assistant Attorney General of Colorado, who highlighted how Solve addresses security concerns upfront in product development.

Trust is hard to win in the legal industry and it’s been so encouraging to see how Solve has earned it in a relatively short time frame. 

Deep research with deep domain knowledge

One of the reasons Solve is so far ahead is the composition of its team. It blends AI researchers from Cambridge, Oxford, UCL and Imperial with experienced US and European patent attorneys from firms such as Hoffmann Eitle, Dentons, D Young and Fish & Richardson.

The result is proprietary AI, tuned specifically for patent reasoning. It integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Word, matches the expectations of legal workflows, and exposes reasoning and citations to support transparency.

AI alone cannot transform the patent system but AI that understands patents can. We have deep respect for the AI-first approach that Chris, Angus and Sanj are taking to an industry-wide problem.

Introducing Charts: the next chapter

Alongside the round, Solve has announced the launch of Charts, a product designed for the intense pace and data scale of patent litigation and high-volume IP analysis.

Charts can generate invalidity charts, standard-essential patent charts, infringement mappings, freedom-to-operate and clearance analyses, claim construction work, and portfolio reviews. It can extract insights from thousands of documents and lets firms encode their own internal know-how into reusable styles and templates. Everything is traceable and fully cited.

For litigators and corporate teams, this product is a new foundation for competitive advantage. 

We believe Solve Intelligence has a real opportunity to become the AI-native platform for intellectual property: the Copilot for IP law. A system of record that unifies how patents are created, prosecuted and managed across enterprises, law firms, and inventors globally.

For us at Visionaries, this is exactly the kind of company we love to support. A team combining world-class research, deep domain expertise, and the ambition to rebuild a critical industry from the ground up.

We’re also excited to be leading this investment from our Early Growth Fund, a position we’ve been taking more throughout 2025 with the support of our brilliant founders – for whom our Visionaries DNA and proposition seems to be resonating now more than ever – and our LPs, to whom we are hugely grateful for their continued trust. 

The patent system has always been about protecting inventions but now it needs reinvention of its own. Solve Intelligence is doing that work. Congratulations to Chris, Angus and Sanj for what you’ve achieved so far, and thank you for letting us join you in your mission.