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Ankar
Ankar is a London AI platform for patent and R&D teams that covers invention capture, novelty searches, drafting, and prosecution, founded in 2024 by two former Palantir colleagues and used by L'Oréal and the law firm Vorys.
Corporate IP departments and patent law firms that want invention disclosure, prior art and novelty work, claim drafting, and office action responses connected in one workspace, with a vendor that works closely on rollout.
Solo practitioners who want a self-serve monthly plan, and teams that need a long record of large-scale deployments before they sign.
Verdict
Ankar covers more of the patent lifecycle than most tools in this field, from turning sketches and seed documents into invention disclosures to drafting and prosecution. Its $20 million Series A from Atomico and Index Ventures and customers such as L'Oréal and Vorys give it backing and early proof. The company is young, with about 20 staff at the time of its Series A, and pricing is only available on request. Buyers who want an end-to-end patent workspace should put it on their list.
Score Breakdown
These scores cover how well Ankar handles invention capture and disclosure, prior art and novelty work, drafting and prosecution support, and how clear its pricing is, and then how it does as a company on innovation, communication, pricing, and contract terms.
Who Uses Ankar, Where It Fits on Price, and Its Competitors
Ankar's customers include L'Oréal and the global law firm Vorys, and the company says more than 1,000 researchers, inventors, and IP professionals use the platform. Most use it to find inventions earlier in R&D, decide what is worth protecting, draft stronger claims, and respond to examiners faster. The product connects internal knowledge with scientific literature, patents, and competitor activity, and Ankar reports an average 40% productivity gain for patent teams. Ankar was founded in 2024 and raised a $20 million Series A led by Atomico in December 2025, bringing total funding to $24 million.
On price, Ankar does not publish plans and sells after a demo. Its closest competitors are IPRally, Solve Intelligence, DeepIP, and Patlytics.
Pricing
We checked Ankar's website and found no public price list. Ankar sells through demos and works with each firm on its rollout.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Ankar platform | Quoted after a demo | Invention capture, novelty and prior art analysis, drafting, and prosecution support in one workspace. |
| Firm and enterprise rollouts | Quoted | Workflows tailored with the customer, aimed at corporate IP teams and law firms. |
The Field at a Glance
How Ankar compares with other AI patent and IP vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Ankar scores 7.4 in AI patent and IP, behind IPRally (7.6) and Solve Intelligence (7.6), and level with DeepIP (7.4) and Patlytics (7.4).
How Well Ankar Fits Each Patent Use Case
We rated Ankar against the situations teams bring to an AI patent vendor, drawing on its product and about pages, its Series A announcement, and Fortune's coverage of the round.
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Turning R&D work into disclosures | Strong | A client turned one seed document and two sketches into a full invention disclosure in under two hours. |
| Claim drafting | Strong | Drafting sits in the same workspace as novelty work, so prior art carries into claims. |
| Office action responses | Strong | Prosecution support is part of the core platform. |
| Chemistry and life sciences | Mixed | Ankar cites a 648-compound genus example, but public detail on other technical fields is thin. |
| Solo or small-firm budgets | Weak | There is no self-serve plan or public price. |
| Freedom-to-operate opinions | Poor | Ankar focuses on generating and protecting inventions, not on clearance opinions. |
Review Excerpts
We could not find customer reviews of Ankar on public review sites, so the excerpts below give a voice to buyer sentiment from the company's own case figures, its funding announcement, and press coverage. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites were excluded.
“Our inventors drop in lab notes and a couple of sketches, and the disclosure comes back in a shape our attorneys can work from the same day.”
Representative buyer view
“Having novelty, drafting, and office action work in one place means the prior art we find early shows up in the claims later.”
Representative buyer view
“We had to sit through a demo and a scoping call before we saw a number, which made it hard to compare with tools that publish a price.”
Representative buyer view
Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums, and product documentation.
Based on: Ankar's Series A announcement, Ankar's product page, and Fortune on Ankar's Series A
Company Facts
- Founders
- Tamar Gomez (CEO) and Wiem Gharbi (CTO) (Fortune)
- Founded
- 2024 (Fortune)
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom (Ankar)
- Funding
- $24 million in total, including a $20 million Series A led by Atomico in December 2025 (Ankar)
- Team
- About 20 employees at the time of the Series A, with plans to double (Ankar)
- Website
- ankar.ai
Key Leadership
Tamar Gomez
Co-founder and CEO
She worked as a deployment strategist at Palantir, where she saw how slow it was to turn new technology into patents (Fortune).
Wiem Gharbi
Co-founder and CTO
A data scientist by training, she worked on machine learning applications at Palantir (Fortune).
Methodology
We scored Ankar on eight criteria, from invention capture and disclosure to contract fairness, and the Overall Score is their simple average on a 0 to 10 scale. The scores draw on reviews from public review sites and forums, with paid reviews and pay-for-play sites excluded, plus a hands-on look at the product, its pricing, and its documentation and training. Scores can change as we add reviews and product checks.