Ankar

What is Ankar?

The AI enabled IP platform that augments innovation and guides IP investment decisions.

Business and value proposition

Ankar wants to build an AI based on semantic and multimodal search (text, technicall keywords, image or technical drawing) to increase breadth and precision, on patent ontology connected to literature, grants, legal data and on collaboration to leverage their knowledge base in a secure and user friendly space.

Why we invested?

• Top notch team: top academic background, Army mindset for Tamar, both are specialists of large enterprise (often industrials) deployment in complex environments.
• Big momentum: Generative AI & Large language model with their powerful semantic analysis and contextualized textual content capabilities can optimize data workflows and bolster R&D decision process
• Data integration was Tamar and Wiem speciality at Palantir, they know how to manage complex infrastructure, recover data in real time to fetch APi for retrieval and classification purposes.
• The R&D budget used by corporations for these types of tools is enormous.
• Intelligence software for IP search and monitoring becomes more and more important as industrial players need to reduce time to insight and increase successful product launch