IP Copilot
Columbia, US · Founded 2023 · Delaware corporation · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
IP Copilot is an AI platform that discovers inventions across a team's tools and documents, guides inventors through disclosure, runs prior art searches, and manages patent portfolios with market and infringement monitoring. It serves enterprises, law firms, and startups managing their intellectual property.
Also known as IPCopilot · ipcopilot.ai
Founders & leadership
Board
Investors · 3
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$5.7M disclosed across 1 round · 2024
▶$5.7MraisedSep 2024 · 18 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Austin WaltersExecutive Officer, Director
- Jason HarrierDirector
- Farooq AbbasiDirector
- Offering amount
- $5.7M
- Amount sold
- $5.7M
- First sale
- Sep 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2023
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026IP Copilot is an intellectual property software platform that applies artificial intelligence to the discovery, capture and management of inventions inside organizations. The product monitors internal company discussions in real time to surface emerging innovations as they occur, then assists inventors in producing invention disclosures with sufficient technical depth to support filing decisions. It also performs prior art searches, and can tag, score and summarize ideas to accelerate review and triage of the invention pipeline. Beyond patents, the platform identifies and catalogs trade secrets so that internal know-how is documented and protected.
The hosted product is positioned for enterprise deployment, with Okta-based single sign-on, SOC 2 and GDPR compliance claims, and a published trust center. The company states that it hosts its own private AI rather than relying on third-party models, and that customer data is not used for model training. A separately licensed Market Intelligence module adds competitive profiles, product monitoring and infringement insights, and is gated by administrator entitlement.
Founding story
Co-founders Austin Walters and Jason Harrier drew on experience building and participating in large-scale IP programs and concluded that idea discovery and IP capture were largely neglected parts of the process, which led them to build IP Copilot with the stated aim of supporting the growth of the global inventor community.
Business model
IP Copilot sells access to a hosted, multi-module SaaS platform, with core invention discovery and disclosure capabilities and at least one add-on tier (Market Intelligence) that customers upgrade into via a sales conversation with the company.
Software licensing/subscription access to the platform, with upgrade paths to additional modules such as Market Intelligence sold through direct sales calls.
Traction
Reported team size of roughly 2-10 to 11-20 employees, with founder, C-suite, sales, marketing and engineering roles listed. The company reported enthusiastic early adoption among law firm users, and maintains a partner relationship with IPWatchdog including a multi-year cadence of sponsored webinars from 2024 through 2026.
Latest developments
Following the September 2024 funding announcement, the company stated plans to expand platform capabilities so users can identify top innovators and capture ideas in real time, and to increase marketing reach. It continued sponsoring IP-focused educational webinars, including sessions on AI in patent litigation and AI-assisted patent pruning.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
An early-stage AI IP management vendor with a small team, active in the patent-professional ecosystem as an IPWatchdog partner and webinar sponsor.
Positioned as built for inventors by inventors, with emphasis on the upstream stage of the IP lifecycle — real-time idea discovery and capture — which the founders identified as an overlooked gap, alongside self-hosted AI and a no-customer-data-training policy rather than third-party model dependence.
Technology
AI-based analysis of internal company communications and documents for invention discovery; generative assistance for drafting invention disclosures; automated prior art search with tagging, scoring and summarization of ideas; AI identification and cataloging of trade secrets; and market/competitive monitoring for infringement insight. The company states it runs self-hosted private AI models and does not train on customer data, and cites SOC 2 and GDPR compliance with Okta login.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise and law-firm sales supported by scheduled calls and demos, combined with content marketing in the IP legal community: IP Copilot is a listed IPWatchdog partner and has sponsored a recurring series of CLE and educational webinars on AI in prior art searching, patent prosecution, patent pruning and patent litigation, as well as IPWatchdog live events. Proceeds from its funding round were designated in part for expanded marketing reach.
Initially enterprise customers with in-house IP programs; the company subsequently extended to law firms, where it reported faster adoption cycles than in enterprise sales.
Geography
Headquartered in Columbia, Tennessee, United States; the platform advertises GDPR compliance alongside SOC 2.
History
Founded in 2023 and based in Columbia, Tennessee, the company launched a platform for invention discovery and disclosure aimed initially and exclusively at enterprise customers. It later expanded to law firms, finding adoption faster there than in enterprise sales cycles, with early law firm users contributing workflow and use-case feedback that shaped the product. A $5.6 million funding round was announced in September 2024, earmarked for expanding technical capabilities and marketing.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 10
by search overlap
Companies competing with IP Copilot for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsIP Copilot is listed as an IPWatchdog partner and sponsored a series of webinars on AI in invention capture, prior art search, patent prosecution, litigation and patent pruning, beginning with a November 2024 session on idea discovery and invention capture.
IP Copilot announced it raised $5.6 million to expand the technological capabilities of its IP discovery and management platform and to bolster marketing efforts.
$5.6M source ↗
After initially focusing exclusively on enterprise customers, IP Copilot extended its offering to law firms, reporting faster adoption than enterprise sales cycles and gathering new workflow and use-case feedback from early law firm users.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Log in | IP Copilotdemo.ipcopilot.ai · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does IP Copilot do?
- IP Copilot is an AI platform for discovering, capturing and managing inventions, prior art and trade secrets.
- Who are IP Copilot's investors?
- IP Copilot's investors include NextGen Venture Partners, Preface Ventures, Salesforce Ventures.
- How much funding has IP Copilot raised?
- IP Copilot has disclosed $5.7M raised across 1 round.
- Where is IP Copilot headquartered?
- IP Copilot is headquartered in Columbia, US.