AI DeepIP Raises $15M to be the Harvey of Patent Law

New York & Paris, March 27, 2025: DeepIP, the AI-powered patent assistant, has secured $15 million in Series A funding to modernize the outdated patent filing process. The round was led by AI-specialist fund Resonance, with participation from Headline (Mistral AI), Serena Capital (Dataiku), and Balderton Capital. The funding will fuel expansion across the U.S and Europe, helping the $42B global IP law services leverage AI in a trustworthy way.

Despite global patent demand surging, the filing process remains stuck in the past – expensive, time-consuming, and prone to human error. IP lawyers are under tremendous pressure, expected as they are to deliver applications faster than ever – from 40 hours in the 1990s to just 20 hours today.

DeepIP’s AI-driven solution supports IP attorneys with up to a 50% reduction in time spent drafting, freeing roughly two hours of work per day. This has led not just to better productivity and improved IP firms’ talent retention, but better quality, with patents that are more robust and more defensible. Founded in 2024 by François-Xavier Leduc (CEO) and Édouard d’Archimbaud (CTO), the company has already helped draft 8,500 patent applications and is already trusted by top IP law firms such as Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner.

DeepIP integrates seamlessly into attorneys’ workflows, embedding directly into Microsoft Word while maintaining the highest security and compliance standards (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR) The product is set apart is its ability to analyze past patent applications, allowing DeepIP’s AI to learn and replicate the writing patterns of individual practitioners and their clients. This is crucial, as clients often require a specific tone and particular wording.

“There have never been as many innovations that could be protected and create more value for the entire economy. Yet, the way we manage the patents that make this possible hasn’t evolved fast enough. We built DeepIP through continuous feedback loops with the 50 largest U.S. IP law firms, refining our AI to deliver with precision and legal rigor. By combining cutting-edge AI with deep legal expertise, we’re pioneering a new era where patent professionals collaborate seamlessly with AI to work faster, smarter, and more strategically. We augment, not replace,” says CEO François-Xavier Leduc. “The product-market fit was almost immediate,” he continues. “As one customer put it: ‘I already have five colleagues who told me, If you don’t buy this for the firm, I will go buy it myself.'”

In a sense, patents are the underlying foundation of capitalism. They play a vital role in driving progress, protecting new ideas, and ensuring fair competition. Breakthroughs that start in the research lab need patents to transition into commercial applications. For example, mRNA vaccines were patented by a university and licensed to BioNTech and Moderna to become COVID-19 vaccines. Without patents, most innovations wouldn’t move beyond the lab.

About DeepIP:

DeepIP, formerly known as “davinci”, was founded in 2024 by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard d’Archimbaud, CEO and CTO, respectively, of Kili Technology, an AI scale-up that has been delivering AI solutions to Fortune 500 companies worldwide since 2018 and will continue as a standalone company with its own revenue streams.

DeepIP is the first next-generation trusted AI Patent Assistant designed to free IP practitioners from tedious tasks, enabling them to deliver greater value to their clients. Today, our tool is assisting the most prestigious and largest law firms, along with in-house counsels, in enhancing their patent drafting and prosecution workflows across the US and Europe. DeepIP’s North American headquarters is in New York City, and its European headquarters is in Paris, France. For more information, visit www.deepip.ai or LinkedIn.