LegalTech startup DeepIP raises 25 million US dollars

The LegalTech company DeepIP has raised a total of 40 million US dollars in financing within nine months. The startup has now closed a Series B round of 25 million US dollars, led by Korelya Capital and Serena. Other investors include Headline and Balderton Capital.

The company intends to use the capital to further expand its platform and integrate artificial intelligence along the entire patent life cycle, from research and drafting to the strategic management of intellectual property rights.

Platform approach instead of isolated AI tools

While many AI applications in the patent sector have so far only supported individual tasks, DeepIP pursues a workflow-native approach. The software integrates directly into existing work environments such as Microsoft Word and existing IP management systems so that experts do not have to change their usual processes.

The aim is to avoid media disruptions and maintain context over long periods of time. This is an important point in patent proceedings, which often extend over years and involve several teams.

Increasing complexity in patent work as a growth driver

The need for such solutions is growing. Patent volumes are increasing worldwide, while IP specialists are in short supply. Companies therefore need systems that keep knowledge available in a structured way and support innovation in a scalable manner.

Since the Series A round, DeepIP has quintupled its turnover and introduced an AI-native platform that is used by leading players and is deeply integrated into the daily workflows of patent experts

Olivier Martret, Partner at Serena

DeepIP addresses this challenge by placing AI not as an add-on tool, but as an integrated layer over the entire work process. According to the company, this approach leads to up to 20 percent higher user acceptance and around 40 percent more intensive use compared to classic standalone AI applications.

Already widely used in law firms and industry

The platform is already being used by thousands of professionals in more than 400 patent law firms and IP departments. Users include Greenberg Traurig, Mewburn Ellis, Dexcom and Philips.

To date, the software has supported over 40,000 patent processes and is thus increasingly developing into a central infrastructure for AI-supported patent work.

Expansion into a collaborative IP platform planned

DeepIP intends to use the new funding to expand its platform functionalities, particularly in terms of collaboration, knowledge networking and so-called agentic AI functions. In future, these will anticipate work steps, automatically maintain correlations and proactively support experts.

In the long term, the company is positioning itself as an end-to-end system for patent intelligence - designed for an innovation landscape in which AI itself becomes the driver of new intellectual property rights.