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Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had | TechCrunch
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- Stilta raised $10.5 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with YC and other investors participating.
- Stilta uses a network of AI agents to search for conflicting patents and pull filing and court history.
- Block said Stilta's output is 'litigation-grade: a report and claim charts with pinpoint citations to every piece of evidence.'
- Stilta aims to lower costs and unlock latent value in patent portfolios by accelerating analysis.
- Stilta’s founders previously observed the patent process as slow and labor-intensive.
- The funding round included involvement from operators at OpenAI and other tech firms.
- Stilta positions itself as augmenting lawyers rather than replacing them.
- Stilta’s market focus is the legal tech space within AI-enabled transformation.
- Stilta’s seed round signals strong investor interest in AI-assisted IP workflows.
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