29 Best Intellectual Property Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Intellectual Property Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 29 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $697.3m. The average funding per company in this subset is $24.0m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Physna logo

Physna

Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$84.9m

Money raised

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Wellspring Worldwide

Wellspring Worldwide is an innovation and technology commercialization program that offers technology scouting, corporate venturing, licensing and intellectual property software for corporations and universities.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Lex Machina

With data driven insight, Lex Machina enables law firms and lawyers to pitch and land new clients and win lawsuits.

4

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Red Points

Red Points protects your brand and content in the digital environment. We are able to do this through our proprietary technology which employs machine learning algorithms to scan the internet and identify all violations and infringements. Specialties: Data Security, Machine Learning

6

Funding Rounds

$135.2m

Money raised

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Smart Protection

Smart Protection is software for protecting intellectual and industrial property rights online, eliminating illegal copies of materials.

7

Funding Rounds

$24.1m

Money raised

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DRONE AVIATION HOLDING CORP.

DRONE AVIATION HOLDING CORP. is a Jacksonville, Florida-based drone manufacturing company founded in 2009.

1

Funding Rounds

$125.0k

Money raised

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Cedar Ridge Research, LLC.

Cedar Ridge Research, LLC. is a company that offers research and consulting services.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

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Brainbase

Brainbase is a company founded in 2016 by Nate Cavanaugh, Karl Johan Vallner and Nikolai Tolkatshjov.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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Kandou

KANDOU specializes in the design of high-speed, and pin- and energy-efficient chip-to-chip links, SerDes, and associated technologies.

4

Funding Rounds

$219.3m

Money raised

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UltraSoC Technologies

UltraSoC Technologies is a company founded in 2006.

7

Funding Rounds

$21.2m

Money raised

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ascribe

Ascribe was founded in 2014 with the goal of building the ownership layer of the internet for creators. Ascribe helps creators to manage their valuable digital creations by providing secure attribution, easy sharing and visibility.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Wellspring Worldwide Inc.

Wellspring Worldwide Inc. is a Chicago-based company founded by Matt Hamilton, Sandi Lowe and Robert Lowe.

8

Funding Rounds

$24.7m

Money raised

Tesseract Ventures, LLC logo

Tesseract Ventures, LLC

Tesseract Ventures, LLC is a robotics company.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Apptricity Corporation

Apptricity Corporation is a company founded in 1999.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Auction.com

Auction.com is an Irvine, California-based company founded in 2007.

1

Funding Rounds

$91.7m

Money raised

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Tradespace

Tradespace connects companies with innovators to get intellectual property from lab to market to assist with commercializing intellectual property.

2

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Beatdapp

Beatdapp is a company founded in 2018.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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amplified ai

amplified ai is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Samuel Davis.

2

Funding Rounds

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Brave Group

Brave group is developing a multifaceted metaverse business across the entertainment domain to bring the world excitement it has yet to experience.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

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IdeaBlock

IdeaBlock is an intelligence company using blockchain.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.1k

Money raised

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Nano-Meta Technologies, Inc.

Nano-Meta Technologies, Inc. is a West Lafayette, Indiana-based company founded by Alexandra Boltasseva.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

2

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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UneMeta

A curated social and NFT market space for quality and established IPs and Icons

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Cosynd

Cosynd is a company founded in 2016 by Jessica Sobhraj, Leo Larkpor and Cassidy Williams.

2

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

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Harvest Direct Enterprises

Harvest Direct Enterprises is a company founded in 2016.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

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Patentpal

Patentpal is an automate mechanical writing in your patent applications founded in 2018.

1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

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VSORA

VSORA is a company founded in 2015 by Pierre Emmanuel Bernard.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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ClearAccessIP

ClearAccessIP is a Palo Alto, California-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

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Gaohangip.com

Gaohangip.com is a Guangdong-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$470.0k

Money raised