They chose London as a base, but it was with a Franco-European technological DNA and French capital that they launch their project. Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi, former deployment strategists at Palantir, announce the launch of Ankar AI, a startup specializing in the automation of patent filing procedures. By relying on artificial intelligence models, the platform aims to drastically reduce the time necessary for the writing, analysis and validation of patents for R&D teams.
In large technological and industrial groups, the protection of intellectual property is still based on a long, fragmented and very manual process. Each invention must first be formalized by a technical memo of several dozen pages, often written by the researchers themselves, then reread, reformulated and validated by specialized lawyers. This complex chain slows down the valuation of innovation, at the risk of discouraging certain inventors or delaying critical deposits. It is to this systemic problem that Ankar AI intends to answer.
The tool developed by the startup offers full coverage of the deposit cycle. It automatically generates the technical memo from the elements provided by the inventors, compares the invention to the basics of patents and the existing scientific literature, reformulates the critical elements to guarantee the originality of the deposit, and can even assist the lawyers in the final writing of the request. Once the patent has been validated, Ankar AI continues to intervene by detecting possible violations or duplicates thanks to algorithmic surveillance tools.
The approach already appeals to several international groups. Valeo, among Ankar’s first customers, uses the solution to accelerate patent filing in its R&D programs. Other fortune companies have also started testing the platform in sectors with high technological intensity, such as aeronautics, chemistry or health. The economic model is based on an annual subscription, with variations according to the size of the legal teams and the volume of deposits.
Ankar has joined an emerging but strategic market, that of AI applied to intellectual property. In the United States, actors like Deepip, supported by Balderton, already occupy the field. The young Franco-British shoot claims differentiation by the complete integration of the deposit route and better adaptability to regional requirements. If the technological basis is common, the regulatory subtleties between American, European or Asian offices require specific engineering that the startup has started to integrate from the design.
With this fundraising of 3 million pounds sterling, or about 3.6 million eurosAnkar intends to strengthen its engineering team, accelerate the development of its product, structure its commercial force and open an office in Paris. The round of table was led by Ventures indexwith the participation of French funds Daphni,, Ventures motoras well as German funds Booom And Puzzle ventures. Individual investors recognized in the tech ecosystem, as Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog) and Julien Chaumond (CTO of Hugging Face) Complete the Tour.
