EnforceShield, a Vilnius legal technology firm, has secured €1.7 million in seed funding to scale an autonomous platform that hunts down and eliminates intellectual property violations without human intervention.
The investment arrives as generative AI makes counterfeiting and IP theft dramatically cheaper and faster for bad actors. Brands now face infringement volumes that overwhelm traditional enforcement teams staffed by lawyers and analysts.
Vendep Capital led the round, with FIRSTPICK VC also participating.
The startup, founded in 2024 by practicing attorney Rytis Rudzinskas, runs a SaaS solution that handles the complete enforcement workflow. Its systems detect violations across platforms, apply jurisdiction-specific legal logic, validate cases, execute takedowns, and monitor for repeat offenses.
Rudzinskas spent years operating digital IP enforcement manually before building the company. He concluded that adding more lawyers would never solve the scaling problem. When infringers began adopting AI tools, enforcement needed to respond with equivalent technology.
Artis Bisers, Investment Manager at Vendep Capital, highlighted that finding counterfeits was never the difficult part for brands. The real value emerges after discovery, and EnforceShield processes everything in one system rather than stopping at detection.
The platform’s AI agents make case-level enforcement decisions using built-in legal logic adapted to each jurisdiction. This enables a “human-at-the-end” model where attorneys and analysts approve outcomes and handle exceptions or complex escalations, not routine cases.
As a result, enforcement volume becomes disconnected from headcount. Enterprises can process dramatically more cases without proportionally expanding their legal teams.
Same-day onboarding sets the company apart. EnforceShield requires minimal upfront data, ingests it directly, and often surfaces infringements clients never noticed.
The company operates globally from Lithuania, with a US subsidiary in Tennessee. American customers already represent up to 80 percent of its sales pipeline.
The fresh capital will fund technical and product development for the next layer of enforcement automation. Future agents will manage escalations, track repeat offenders, and navigate complex enforcement pathways beyond standard takedowns.
EnforceShield aims to become the default enforcement engine for enterprise IP holders across e-commerce, technology, sports, media, and publishing sectors.
