Solve Intelligence is Building AI for Patents and Launches Charts

Solve Intelligence, building intelligence for drafting, prosecution, claim charts, invention harvesting, and more, led by Chris Parsonson, Angus Parsonson, and Sanj Ahilan, has secured $40 million in Series B co-led by Visionaries and 20VC, with Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, Operator Collective (led by ex-Cisco IP chief Mallun Yen), and angels like the founders of Tinder, Canva, Deel, Ironclad, Base44, Cleo, Hugging Face, Pigment, and Higgsfield, as well as Kevin Johnson, who founded Quinn Emanuel’s IP litigation practice, taking our total funding to $55M.

This round follows the company’s $12M Series A just months ago, underscoring the rapid adoption of Solve Intelligence across the IP industry. The platform is quickly emerging as the central workspace where in-house and outside counsel collaborate across every stage of the patent process.

Solve Intelligence is expanding its platform beyond drafting and prosecution. Over 400 IP teams already use the product for invention harvesting, application drafting, and office-action responses. The new Charts product now adds support for freedom-to-operate reviews, infringement and validity analysis, SEP mapping, and litigation workflows, creating a unified environment for any patent-related task.

The Series B round also accelerates global expansion, with new offices in New York City and Munich and a growing team of AI researchers, patent attorneys, and engineers. The company is building an end-to-end platform for the entire patent lifecycle.

The new Charts product enables IP teams to generate and analyze infringement and invalidity claim charts, SEP mappings, freedom-to-operate and clearance reviews, and portfolio-level comparisons across thousands of documents. Organizations can embed their proprietary expertise into the platform through custom AI styles, workflows, and templates. Charts also provides full citation support and transparent AI reasoning to strengthen trust and verifiability.

Charts is designed to help patent attorneys, litigators, transaction teams, and in-house IP leaders perform high-quality charting work at a scale and speed that was previously impractical or cost-prohibitive.

Growth has been driven not only by Solve Intelligence’s capabilities but by its foundational approach. Security and confidentiality remain core architectural principles, meeting the standards of major law firms, corporations, and public institutions. The platform’s specialized AI is tuned to patent language, legal requirements, and domain-specific technical detail across software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry, and other fields. Deep integrations with existing workflows, including Microsoft Word and established prosecution processes, allow IP teams to adopt the technology without overhauling current practices.

Customers report 60–80% reductions in drafting time while maintaining or improving quality. Since the Series A round, weekly user activity has risen by 265% as more workflows are consolidated on the platform.

Patent drafting and prosecution formed the initial foundation. The platform has since expanded into invention harvesting, collaboration between in-house and outside counsel, and now claim charting and portfolio analysis through Charts.

Over the next five years, the vast majority of in-house and external IP teams are expected to collaborate on AI-native platforms for every stage of the patent workflow. Inventors and R&D teams will interface with counsel through systems built for transparency, security, and seamless knowledge capture.

The long-term objective is for Solve Intelligence, shaped by the expertise of patent professionals, to serve as the core software layer through which innovation is captured, protected, and commercialized.

Mallun Yen, former Vice President of Worldwide Intellectual Property and Deputy General Counsel at Cisco, who participated in the round through Operator Collective, emphasized the team’s unique position in the market:

“After decades in patents as a founder, in-house leader, IP attorney, and now investor, the bar was almost unrealistically high. Yet after meeting with dozens of startups, the work led back to Chris and his team. They are not only technically exceptional, but they have also built an AI platform that patent attorneys genuinely trust and rely on.”

Rob Lacher, founder of Visionaries and co-lead of the round, highlighted Solve’s growing market position:

“We have deep respect for how Chris, Angus, and Sanj have built Solve into the category leader in the US and Europe, with more than 60% of customers already stateside. The depth of their product is remarkable, and Solve has a real opportunity to become the AI-native platform for intellectual property, the Copilot for IP law, powering every stage of the patent lifecycle across enterprises, law firms, and inventors worldwide. Solve can unify a fragmented ecosystem into a single workflow and data layer that serves as the system of record for how patents are created, prosecuted, and managed.”

Paul Bonnet, General Partner at 20VC, noted:

“Solve Intelligence has delivered exceptional execution. Product velocity continues to outpace the market, reflected clearly in customer enthusiasm and performance metrics. This Series B marks renewed conviction in a team building the operating system for the IP world.”