Solve Intelligence has closed a $40M Series B funding round, pushing its total raised capital to $55M. The round arrives just months after the company secured a $12M Series A, signaling strong investor confidence in the AI patent platform.

Visionaries and existing investor 20VC co-led the round. Thomson Reuters and Y Combinator also increased their ownership stakes. Operator Collective, led by Mallun Yen, former Vice President of Worldwide Intellectual Property and Deputy General Counsel at Cisco, joined as a new investor.

Why Patents Need Better Software

The intellectual property industry has long relied on manual processes and fragmented tools. Patent attorneys spend countless hours on drafting, claim charting, and analysis work that could benefit from automation. Solve Intelligence has built its platform specifically for this challenge, focusing on the technical complexity and legal precision that patent work demands.

Mallun Yen explained her decision to invest: “After decades in patents as a founder, in-house leader, IP attorney, and now investor, I had an almost unrealistically high bar. But after meeting with dozens of startups, I kept coming back to Chris and his team. They’re not just technically exceptional – they’ve built an AI platform patent attorneys genuinely trust and rely on.”

Expanding Products and Global Reach

The Series B funds will support two main priorities. First, the company is broadening its platform beyond patent drafting and prosecution with a new product called Charts.

Charts enables legal teams to generate and analyze infringement and invalidity claim charts, standard-essential patent mappings, freedom-to-operate reviews, and portfolio-level comparisons across thousands of documents. Firms can encode their specific know-how into reusable AI styles, templates, and workflows. The system includes full citation support and transparent AI reasoning.

Second, Solve is expanding geographically. The company will open new offices in New York City and Munich to better serve customers in North America and Europe. Additional hires across AI research, patent law, and software engineering are planned.

From Drafting Tool to Patent Operating System

Founded by CEO Dr. Chris Parsonson, CTO Angus Parsonson, and Chief Research Officer Sanj Ahilan, Solve Intelligence started as a drafting assistant. It has since grown into a comprehensive platform used by more than 400 IP teams across six continents.

The company reports that 60% of its customers are law firms while 40% are corporate IP teams. Since the Series A, annual recurring revenue has grown more than 10x to reach eight figures. Solve is now profitable and has generated more cash than it has raised since inception. Users report time savings of 60 to 80 percent on drafting while maintaining or improving quality.

What makes Solve different from generic AI tools? The platform is built specifically for patent language, legal standards, and technical detail across software, hardware, life sciences, and chemistry. It integrates tightly with Microsoft Word and existing patent workflows rather than requiring teams to change how they work.

Backing from Industry Veterans and Tech Founders

The investor roster includes notable angel investors alongside the institutional backers. Founders of Tinder, Canva, Deel, Ironclad, Base44, Cleo, Hugging Face, Pigment, Higgsfield, and Trouva participated. Kevin Johnson, who founded Quinn Emanuel’s IP litigation practice, also invested.

Rob Lacher, founder of Visionaries, explained the firm’s thesis: “We have deep respect for how Chris, Angus, and Sanj have built Solve into the category leader in the US and Europe, with more than 60% of customers already stateside. The depth of their product is remarkable, and we believe Solve has a real shot at becoming the AI-native platform for intellectual property — the Copilot for IP law — powering every stage of the patent lifecycle across enterprises, law firms, and inventors globally. Solve can unify a fragmented ecosystem into one workflow and data layer that becomes the system of record for how patents are created, prosecuted, and managed.”

Paul Bonnet, General Partner at 20VC, who led the Series A and doubled down on this round, added: “The team at Solve Intelligence is nothing short of exceptional. They have gone from strength-to-strength this year: their product velocity is truly unmatched, and it shows in the customer love they receive, and in the numbers. We could not be more excited to support them again, as they create the OS for IP.”

Origianl Creator: Ekaterina Pisareva
Original Link: https://justainews.com/companies/funding-news/patent-ai-startup-solve-intelligence-gets-40m-funding/
Originally Posted: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:44:29 +0000