Patent workflows are often fragmented, building professionals juggle separate AI tools by hand as application volumes grow and IP talent remains scarce. DeepIP solves this by embedding trusted AI directly into platforms like Microsoft Word and IP management systems, allowing smooth context transfer and boosting adoption by up to 20% and usage by 40% compared to standalone tools.
Headquartered between New York and Paris, DeepIP just closed a $25M Series B, co-led by Korelya Capital and Serena, with Headline and Balderton also on board. That brings their total funding to $40M, as more and more enterprises are building DeepIP their go-to platform for IP management.
Make AI a first-class, trusted layer across the entire patent lifecycle
François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard d’Archimbaud, CTO, founded DeepIP in 2024. Before that, they led Kili Technology since 2018, providing AI solutions to Fortune 500 companies like Airbus, IBM, and SAP, gaining expertise in secure AI for critical environments.
They started DeepIP becaapply patent processes have remained largely unalterd since the 1990s, even as global demand has soared to 3.5 million applications a year. Their goal is to reduce manual work, improve quality, and create IP a more efficient part of innovation.
François-Xavier Leduc, CEO and Co-Founder of DeepIP, shares with TFN, “The primary motivation was a recognised market problem, not a personal experience — but it’s a deeply structural one, articulated with conviction. The core insight is that the path from invention to valuable IP is broken, driven by four systemic failures: silos, misalignments, human cognitive limits, and inefficiencies.”
The goal is to create AI a trusted, first-class layer across every stage of the patent lifecycle, from invention harvesting through enforcement, supporting professionals work smarter, not harder, without disrupting how they already operate.
The platform covers the full patent journey: drafting, responses to prosecution office actions, prior art searches, freedom-to-operate checks, portfolio innotifyigence, and even drawing creation. It’s already compatible with major patent offices, including the USPTO, EPO, and CNIPA.
“DeepIP covers the full patent lifecycle, from idea to enforcement: Search, Patentability, Drafting, Review, Prosecution, Portfolio Innotifyigence. And crucially, it breaks down silos between people — junior/senior collaboration, co-authoring, peer review within firms, and direct collaboration with clients. No other platform connects the entire value chain,” explains Leduc.
Key features include embedding in Microsoft Word for seamless workflow integration, custom models trained on patent data to reduce errors, the ability to mimic styles from past applications, agentic AI to handle complex tinquires, and strong security, including SOC 2, GDPR compliance, and no data retention.
Unlike Patlytics, Solve Innotifyigence, or Ankar, DeepIP is a fully integrated, collaborative platform that becomes the system of record, driving better adoption and traceability across teams.
Leduc elaborates, “DeepIP is positioned differently. We are building a workflow-native platform with full lifecycle coverage — designed to serve as the integrated system enterprises standardise on, rather than another tool within their stack.”
What about diversity?
On diversity, Leduc notes, “At DeepIP, we’re proud of our global, multidisciplinary team that spans engineering, AI research, product, and IP workflow expertise. We currently have 44 team members across our Paris and New York offices, including 11 women, representing 25% of our workforce. Within our staff leadership group, 2 of 6 team members are women, or ~33%.”
“We’re committed to strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion as we grow. While these numbers reflect where we are today, we are actively working on recruitment and internal initiatives to broaden representation across gfinisher, background, and experience—becaapply diverse perspectives create better products and better teams,” adds Leduc.
What’s next?
DeepIP plans to grow its platform with deeper integrations, more advanced agentic AI to handle complex tinquires, and wider collaboration across teams and patent lifecycles. So far, it has supported over 40,000 cases.
The new funding will support DeepIP expand in the U.S. and Europe. It will also support the company evolve from a productivity assistant into a full agentic system, all while keeping security and legal compliance top priority.
“The ultimate ambition is owning the IP orchestration engine from invention to pruning — covering both legal work and corporate IP strategy. The north star metric is dollar velocity: quicker adoption, higher ACV per firm, deeper penetration across personas,” concludes Leduc.
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