
Innovation is the key to solving society's greatest challenges, and IP (intellectual property) plays a pivotal role in encouraging, driving, and capitalising on innovation. At Ankar AI, our mission is to empower IP and R&D teams with AI to innovate more efficiently, thoroughly, and productively. We are building a platform for inventors to accelerate their work throughout the entire IP lifecycle by providing them with best in class software, leveraging LLMs, for IP search, patent filing, freedom-to-operate analysis and infringement detection. With the growing complexity and volume of IP today, traditional software is no longer meeting the needs of inventors. We are already working with the world's most innovative organisations (Fortune 500 companies and top patent filers) to solve critical needs with our product. Ankar AI is built by a world class team of engineers and product leaders from Palantir, Twitter, BCG, and top startups.

Innovation is the key to solving society's greatest challenges, and IP (intellectual property) plays a pivotal role in encouraging, driving, and capitalising on innovation. At Ankar AI, our mission is to empower IP and R&D teams with AI to innovate more efficiently, thoroughly, and productively. We are building a platform for inventors to accelerate their work throughout the entire IP lifecycle by providing them with best in class software, leveraging LLMs, for IP search, patent filing, freedom-to-operate analysis and infringement detection. With the growing complexity and volume of IP today, traditional software is no longer meeting the needs of inventors. We are already working with the world's most innovative organisations (Fortune 500 companies and top patent filers) to solve critical needs with our product. Ankar AI is built by a world class team of engineers and product leaders from Palantir, Twitter, BCG, and top startups.
What they do: AI platform for the full patent/IP lifecycle (idea generation, drafting, prosecution, infringement detection)
Headquarters: London / UK
Founders: Wiem Gharbi and Tamar Gomez
Recent funding: Reported $20M Series A (Jan 2026) and Seed (~£3M, May 2025)
Security posture: Emphasizes enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001)
Intellectual property management and patent workflow automation for enterprise legal/R&D teams
2024
Software Development
≈£3M
Seed round reported in press aggregators and investor listings.
$20M
Company blog post reported a $20M Series A with participation from Index Ventures, Norrsken, and Daphni.
“Backed by well-known European VCs (Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni) as lead/participants”
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Ankar AI is dedicated to empowering intellectual property (IP) and research & development (R&D) teams with AI tools to innovate more efficiently, thoroughly, and productively. Our mission is to build a platform for inventors that accelerates their work throughout the entire IP lifecycle by providing best-in-class software, leveraging large language models (LLMs) for:
With the growing complexity and volume of IP today, traditional software is no longer sufficient for inventors. Many companies are turning to us to help them stay at the forefront of innovation amidst the millions of patents filed each year.
We are expanding our team to achieve our ambitious goals and offer competitive compensation and equity packages to our employees.
Job Title: ML Engineer
Location: Hoxton Square, London (no remote)
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering