Ankar Funding News – London-based Startup Ankar Raises £3M In Seed Round

The company will use the funds to grow its AI-powered platform that helps users discover, protect, and monetise their intellectual property.

The round also saw support from Daphni, Motier Ventures, Booom, and Puzzle Ventures, as well as angel investors like Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog) and Julien Chaumond (CTO of Hugging Face).

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WIPO data shows that up to 90% of a company’s value now comes from intangible assets like intellectual property. This makes it more important than ever for businesses—especially in fields like pharma, aerospace, and software—to manage and monetise their innovation effectively.

Ankar helps solve common R&D and IP challenges, such as time-consuming invention memos, translation problems, and expensive legal reviews. The founders, having faced these issues at Palantir, built Ankar to streamline and improve these tasks with AI.

“Recent developments in artificial intelligence signal a seismic shift in how humanity invents," said Tamar Gomez, co-founder of Ankar. "As AI becomes more deeply integrated with the invention process, we're about to witness an explosion in the rate of discovery. Ankar is positioning itself at the center of this transformation by building the operating system of innovation.”

“Our platform dramatically streamlines this process and mountains of documents which slow down research today,” said Wiem Gharbi, co-founder of Ankar. “But improving efficiency is only the beginning — building AI into the invention process, along with the inventors, allows inventors to fundamentally expand the horizons of what we can imagine creating. We believe Ankar is creating the foundation for the next generation of breakthrough technologies."

One of Ankar’s first customers is Valeo, a global automotive supplier. The two worked together to improve and simplify Valeo’s patent processes.

“Innovation and protection of IP are at the heart of Valeo’s strategy,” said Murielle Khairallah, Valeo’s Vice President of Intellectual Property. “Our co-development with Ankar and the use of their generative AI solutions strengthen our capacity to protect our innovations and optimise our process for patent filings. This modern approach is fully aligned with our operational excellence and our position of technological leader in the automotive industry."

As IP strategy becomes more important for business success and global patent filings keep increasing, Ankar is entering a large and growing market. In Europe, new regulations and rising competition have further boosted demand for tools that help companies innovate faster and protect their ideas.

“Tamar and Wiem are redefining how innovation is captured, protected, and commercialised — turning IP from a defensive legal asset into a strategic growth lever,” said Hannah Seal, Partner at Index Ventures. “As innovation and R&D lie at the heart of economic growth and progress more broadly, we’re excited to back Ankar on their mission to empower more teams to turn bold ideas into lasting outcomes."

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Founded in 2024 by Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi, Ankar uses AI agents trained on legal and scientific data to simplify the entire innovation process.