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Techstars '22Berlin, DE · Founded 2021 · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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PatentPlus provides AI-powered tools for innovation teams to identify technology partners, startups, and licensing opportunities through semantic search across company and patent databases. The platform serves R&D and innovation scouting teams in research organizations and enterprises seeking to accelerate technology identification and transfer.
Also known as PatentPlus
Founders & leadership
PatentPlus was founded in 2021 by Florian Mysliwetz, Marius Almstedt, and Simeon Graupe.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026PatentPlus is a Berlin-based software company offering AI agent tooling for innovation scouting and technology transfer. Its stated positioning is an "AI operating system" for innovation, new business and technology transfer teams, intended to shorten partner and solution search from months to minutes. The company markets two connected products along the innovation pipeline: the PatentPlus Agent and the Transfer Hub.
The PatentPlus Agent executes research workflows described in plain language, running from initial search to a finished report. Advertised capabilities include industry partner search across a stated base of more than 70 million companies, startups and the wider web; patent research, prior art searches and freedom-to-operate (FTO) pre-checks; and generation of contact details, outreach drafts and shareable reports, with AI-driven qualification and fit analysis. Transfer Hub is a public-facing showcase where research organizations list patent portfolios, spin-offs and collaboration opportunities in order to receive inbound industry requests without building their own innovation store; listings of patents and spin-offs are described as automated. The Transfer Hub site presents portfolio analytics including patents over time, jurisdictions, inventors, applicants and technology areas.
An external startup directory describes PatentPlus as a digital marketplace and analytics platform for patented technologies connecting research organizations with corporations and investors, using a patent-based technology scouting methodology to surface licensing, buying and co-development opportunities, and partnering with research organizations on R&D collaborations, inventor collaborations and deep-tech spin-off investments.
Business model
PatentPlus sells access to its software to organizational customers, with a demo-request sales motion on its website. Two offerings are presented: the agent product for research workflows and the Transfer Hub, through which research organizations get listed and receive inbound industry requests. The Transfer Hub is positioned as replacing the cost and effort of an organization building its own innovation showcase.
Traction
As presented on the Transfer Hub site, the platform covers 4,287 patents (2,336 granted, 1,951 pending), 8,763 inventors, 605 spin-offs and 25 research organizations, including 185 recent patent publications for 2025 and 2026. A published testimonial comes from the head of the Technology Transfer and Startup Center at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Market position
Positioned as a tool for innovation scouting and technology transfer teams, marketed to research organizations and enterprises seeking industry partner matching and patent portfolio visibility.
Technology
The platform is built around AI agents that take natural-language task descriptions and run multi-step research workflows end to end, combining search across a company/startup dataset of more than 70 million entities and the open web with patent search, prior art and freedom-to-operate pre-checks, automated qualification and fit analysis, and report and outreach drafting. Transfer Hub applies automated patent and spin-off listing plus portfolio analytics across partner research organizations. The company states data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256, that hosting is in Europe under EU GDPR, and that customer inputs and outputs are not used to train AI models.
Go-to-market
Direct sales via "Book a demo" requests on the website, complemented by a "Get listed" funnel for research organizations joining the Transfer Hub, which in turn generates inbound industry requests. Customer references from university technology transfer offices are used as social proof.
Technology transfer offices and startup/transfer centers at universities and research institutes, corporate innovation scouting and new business teams, and deep-tech investors. Named Transfer Hub participants include Berlin University Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Fraunhofer IWU, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Paul Scherrer Institut, University of Bern, University of Bonn and University of Hamburg.
Geography
Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with hosting in Europe. Transfer Hub partner research organizations are primarily in Germany, with additional institutions in Austria and Switzerland; partner search coverage is described as worldwide.
History
The company's about page states it was founded in August 2020; a startup directory entry lists a founding year of 2021. Co-founders Florian Mysliwetz and Simeon Graupe are listed as active, while co-founder Marius Almstedt is noted as having left in December 2023.
Risks & controversies
Publicly disclosed funding is limited: a startup directory lists total funding in the €1–€100K range. Founding date is inconsistent across sources (August 2020 on the company's about page versus 2021 in a directory listing), and one of three co-founders departed in December 2023.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 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.
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsThe company's about page lists co-founder Marius Almstedt as having left in December 2023, with Florian Mysliwetz and Simeon Graupe remaining active co-founders.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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primary sources listed
- PatentPluspatentplus.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does PatentPlus do?
- PatentPlus builds AI agents that help technology transfer offices and innovation scouts find and qualify industry partners.
- Who founded PatentPlus?
- PatentPlus was founded by Florian Mysliwetz, Marius Almstedt, Simeon Graupe in 2021.
- Who are PatentPlus's investors?
- PatentPlus's investors include Techstars.
- Where is PatentPlus headquartered?
- PatentPlus is headquartered in Berlin, DE.