Patent Catalyst
We help startups articulate, protect and curate their core patent, creating a strong foundation upon which to build a company. Founder-friendly is just the starting point; we live for inventors.
Fundraising
With your company’s core patent strategy in place and its value verified, we’ll help you raise the funds you need to grow. As a strategic partner through the life of the company, we can offer support for fundraising strategy, investor introductions, or follow-on investment.
Scaling
Patent portfolio strategy, roadmapping, and curation is a long-term commitment and Ideaship is there throughout. As your revenue grows and you build out your team, lean on us for guidance on IP budgeting, claims, and referrals to keep your portfolio healthy and strategic. Your valuation will thank you.
Acquisition and IPO
Eventually such care and diligence cultivating the company’s core IP assets throughout the entrepreneurial journey pays off. Carefully curated patent portfolios generate meaningfully higher valuations in successive funding rounds and at exit.
Our Mission
Ideaship helps Founder Inventors maximize the value of their innovation and their company by catalyzing a patent strategy that helps stake out the future of their industry.
Harvest
Our first step is to extract, refine and polish your team’s innovations into something not just patentable and defensible, but industry-defining. This is both art and science, and our team has decades of experience practicing this craft.
Protect
It’s technical, bureaucratic and expensive, and we’ve got you. Our team is full of patent nerds – lawyers, analysts, subject matter experts, former patent examiners, and former founders. We live for this stuff, and if we invest in you, you’ll have peace of mind that we’re living for your IP.
Create Value
Such care and diligence has real value in the marketplace. Companies with well curated IP strategies and patents command higher valuations in successive funding rounds and exits. Your Ideaship Market Analysis offers deep insight into your industry, and identifies players in your space (including potential acquirers). Your Ideaship Patent Valuation provides trusted third-party validation of your patent portfolio, and future investors will appreciate its significance.
Plan for the Future
While our focus is on building the patent foundation your startup needs to grow, we are eyeing the full length of your entrepreneurial journey. The Ideaship Patent Roadmap illuminates the path ahead of you, providing vital information for product development, partnership development, and potential exits.
Succeed
Entrepreneurship is a team sport. Ideaship contributes a unique skill set in a mission-critical component of startup success. We’re 100% dedicated to supporting founders, we’re good team-players, and our incentives are aligned to support your long-term success.