Kicking Off 2026: New Investors, New Customers, New Product Features
A lot has happened in the last two months. We wanted to take a moment to share what we've been building, who's joined us, and where we're headed next.
Since we started Solve, the goal has been simple: help IP teams do their best work by combining real-world patent expertise with deep AI research, intuitive UX, and state-of-the-art security. The momentum we're seeing across the business tells us the market agrees as 400+ IP teams across 6 continents now use Solve.
Here's what's new.
New investors joining the journey
We're thrilled to welcome two new investors who need little introduction to anyone in the technology world.
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, and Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, have joined our investor base, alongside a number of other exceptional individuals. Their backing reflects something we hear from IP teams every day: patents are at the heart of how the world's most innovative companies protect and commercialize their work, and the software supporting that process has been long overdue for transformation.
We're grateful for the trust of every investor who has joined us, from our Series B co-leads Visionaries Club and 20VC, to Thomson Reuters, Operator Collective and Y Combinator who continue to back us, to the founders of Stripe, Perplexity, Deel, Ironclad, Canva, Hugging Face, Tinder, and many others who have chosen to support what we're building. This group of investors reflects the intersection of legal, enterprise software, and frontier AI in which Solve sits and their experience will be invaluable as we scale.
Welcoming new blue-chip customers
We're delighted to welcome HG Law, Troutman Pepper Locke, MKS, Haynes Boone, Bookoff McAndrews, Khurana & Khurana, Altacit Global and others to the Solve platform. These teams join over 400 IP practices and corporate IP departments, including DLA Piper, Siemens, Finnegan, and BCLP, that are already using Solve Intelligence across drafting, prosecution, claim charting, and more.
Our customers use Solve to collaborate across the full patent lifecycle: from invention harvesting and application drafting, through office action responses, to FTO and claim chart generation. Seeing leading law firms and in-house teams across the world adopt Solve as their platform of choice is exactly what drives us to continue scaling.
Expanding our Customer Advisory Board
Our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is made up of senior patent professionals who help shape how Solve evolves - bringing their real-world prosecution and litigation experience directly into our product roadmap.
We're proud to welcome four new CAB members over the last couple of months. Here’s what they have to say about AI, IP and Solve Intelligence.
Laura Brutman, Shareholder at Banner Witcoff
“Solve Intelligence combines a practitioner-focused user experience with AI tools that meaningfully enhance patent practice, helping professionals deliver higher-quality work and better outcomes for their clients. I’m excited to contribute my perspective as a practitioner as Solve continues to set the standard for high-quality patent tools built for those who use them.”
Dmitry Andreev, Partner at Lowenstein Sandler
“Effective IP strategy lives at the intersection of law and technology – understanding both is what allows us to turn innovation into lasting business value.”
Johnathon Webb, Partner at Faegre Drinker
“I am grateful to be able to help steer the development of AI tools that have helped me and my team to deliver excellent results. Solve Intelligence’s tools provide an advanced system that minimize administrative time, maximize time spent on legally significant analysis and drafting, and add value to projects not otherwise feasible in a typical workflow. Working closely with Solve Intelligence will help us to continue to see features rolled out that have a positive impact for patent practitioners.”
Joshua Davenport, Shareholder at Banner Witcoff:
“Today’s AI solutions are most effective when leveraged as a tool for creating human workflows that weren’t previously possible. By understanding lawyers, not just technology, Solve is truly innovating on what the practice of law looks like, and I’m excited to collaborate with them in helping think through what’s next in our field.”
New product features: built by patent attorneys, for patent attorneys
Over the last two months, we've shipped three significant product updates shaped directly by feedback from our CAB and customer base.
Figure Builder. Drafting patent figures has historically been one of the most time-consuming parts of preparing an application, often handled outside the core drafting workflow and prone to inconsistency with the written description. Our new Figure Builder brings figure creation directly into Solve, allowing practitioners to draft, label, and iterate on patent figures in the same environment as the rest of the application.
AI Review Functionality. Quality review is a critical part of the patent drafting workflow, particularly for firms managing tight turnaround times. We've redesigned the review experience in Solve, giving attorneys a faster, clearer way to customize and review aspects across claims, descriptions, and drawings before filing.
Citations in Charts. Since launching our Charts product for claim charting and patent analysis, one of the most consistent requests from customers has been richer, more transparent citation support. Every claim chart generated in Solve now includes full source-level citations, mapping to the precise passage in the source reference.
What's next
We're expanding our team and our presence in the US and Europe, including our new offices in New York City and Munich, to support the growing number of IP teams adopting Solve as their go-to platform for patent work.
To our customers, our CAB, and our investors: thank you for trusting us with your most important work. We're still at the beginning of what's possible, and we're looking forward to the journey ahead.
If you'd like to see what the platform can do for your team, we'd love to show you.
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