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Atomico Leads $20 Million Series A for Ankar’s AI Patent Platform

The London startup plans to double its 20-person team to push into U.S. R&D hubs.

Overview

  • Index Ventures, Norrsken, and Daphni joined the round, bringing Ankar’s total funding to about $24 million.
  • Ankar positions its product as an end-to-end operating system for intellectual property that unifies novelty search, claim drafting, and prosecution.
  • The platform scans roughly 150 million patent applications and 250 million scientific publications and adds claim-level reasoning, LLM governance, and enterprise-grade security.
  • Early customers including L’Oréal and law firm Vorys report about a 40% productivity boost with hundreds of hours redirected to strategy.
  • Founded in 2024 by Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi, the company will scale engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams across Europe and the United States.