Ankar, a London-based AI platform innovating how firms and regulation companies seize and defend their patents, has raised a €17 million ($20 million) Sequence A spherical to develop its staff and broaden additional into the US.
The spherical was led by Atomico, with Index Ventures doubling down and Norrsken VC and Daphni collaborating – bringing complete funding to €20 million ($24 million).
Tamar Gomez, co-founder of Ankar AI, says: “Invention is how we resolve humanity’s greatest challenges, but the methods that defend these concepts are a long time old-fashioned. AI will redefine how international organisations innovate over the following 5 years, turning IP from a value centre right into a development driver. The businesses that undertake Ankar now will form the way forward for innovation.”
In 2025, EU-Startups reporting factors to regular funding exercise throughout AI-driven LegalTech and IP-adjacent software program in Europe.
Alongside Ankar’s Sequence A, Madrid-based iPNOTE raised a €857k Seed spherical to scale its AI-powered platform aimed toward lowering and managing mental property prices for firms. Amsterdam-headquartered Saga secured over €1.5 million to broaden its lawyer-centric AI platform for authorized professionals throughout Europe and Latin America, whereas Copenhagen-based Pandektes closed a €2.9 million Seed spherical to automate authorized analysis and navigation of European laws. Within the UK, London-based Augmetec raised over €2.4 million to additional develop its AI-enabled authorized workflow platform.
Taken collectively, these 2025 funding bulletins signify roughly €24.7 million in disclosed capital flowing into AI-enabled authorized and IP software program when mixed with Ankar’s Sequence A.
Most comparable firms lined by EU-Startups this 12 months stay at Seed stage, positioning Ankar’s spherical on the bigger finish of the funding spectrum for the sector in 2025.
Whereas not one of the instantly comparable IP-focused startups reported this 12 months are UK-based, exercise throughout Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK signifies geographically distributed investor curiosity in making use of AI to authorized and mental property workflows.
Wiem Gharbi, co-founder of Ankar AI, provides: “Patents sit on the intersection of deep technical data and exact authorized reasoning, and AI can lastly unlock actual leverage in that course of. Ankar offers professionals the analytical depth they’ve by no means had earlier than, enabling stronger technique and higher safety. Atomico shares our ambition to construct the infrastructure behind the following era of worldwide innovation.”
