A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them.
Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-styled ‘AI-native patent firm’ into the United States, the world’s largest and most fiercely protected market for intellectual property.
The round was co-led by London’s 6 Degrees Capital and Amsterdam’s Newion, with existing backers Luminar Ventures and Alliance VC. The company says revenue grew 300 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter.
Replacing the firm, not the lawyer’s software
Most AI in the patent world has aimed at making lawyers faster, trimming admin and billable hours at the edges. Lightbringer’s pitch is blunter: it is built to replace patent firms outright, part of a wave of startups challenging the legal industry’s resistance to change.
