We're passionate about our mission to solve intellectual property. Organizations today spend enormous time and resources solving hard, complex intellectual property issues.

Our team builds powerful intellectual property products that provides both the depth and the quality of information that gives our customers the edge they’re looking for.

Wayne Chang
Wayne Chang, Founder

Backed by the

Greatest Minds in Innovation

Steve Anderson

Founder, Baseline Ventures

Baseline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on seed and growth-stage investments in technology companies. The company was the first seed investor in Instagram, led the seed round in Crashlytics, an early investor of Twitter, and has been called "one of Silicon Valley's most successful — and smallest — investment firms" by Forbes.

Steve Anderson was recognized on Fortune's list of "50 Businesspeople of the Year" and ranked #5 on the Forbes Midas List.

Mallun Yen

FOUNDER AND CEO OF OPERATOR COLLECTIVE

Mallun is the Founder and CEO of Operator Collective, a venture fund and the dream team community of founders and Operator LPs. She is also the co-founder of SaaStr, the world's largest B2B SaaS community. She is also the founding board member of ChIPs. Previously, she was VP of Worldwide Intellectual Property at Cisco and Executive Vice President at RPX. She chairs the advisory board of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and is on the advisory board for Stanford Law School's Center for Law, Science and Technology.

Ali Rowghani

MANAGING DIRECTOR, Y COMBINATOR

Ali worked in finance at Pixar for nine years, serving as Chief Financial Officer between 2002 and 2008. In 2008, he left Pixar to become CFO for Twitter, a post he held for four years until he became Twitter's Chief operating officer. In November 2014, Ali joined Y Combinator as a part-time partner focusing on helping YC alumni scale their companies. Ali was appointed to the Board of Directors of Restoration Hardware in 2015.

Nicole Stata

GENERAL PARTNER, BOSTON SEED CAPITAL

Nicole M. Stata is a General Partner of Boston Seed Capital, which she founded with Peter Blacklow and David Balter in 2011. Ms. Stata was named in 2013 as one of the top 25 most influential woman in tech in Boston by VentureFiZZ. And in 2015 received the “Rising Star Venture Capitalist” award from The New England Venture Capital Association.

Naval Ravikant

CO-FOUNDER, ANGELIST

Naval Ravikant is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Notion, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, Bolt, Yammer and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn companies.

Jeff Fagnan

FOUNDER, ATLAS VENTURE & ACCOMPLICE

Exits from Fagnan's portfolio include cybersecurity company Carbon Black (acquired for $2.1B in 2019) and pharmaceutical company PillPack (acquired by Amazon for $1B in 2018).

Fagnan now serves on company boards for AngelList, Hopper and Carbon Black, among others.

Jennifer Lum

CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER, BIOSPRING

Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. She has co-founded several companies and has worked with many others on formation, fundraising, growth, and M&A.

Scott Belsky

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, ADOBE

Scott Belsky is an executive, entrepreneur, author, and investor (and all-around product obsessive). He currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.

Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012.

Eric Paley

PARTNER, FOUNDER COLLECTIVE

Eric Paley is a Partner at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund with a mission to be the most aligned fund for founders. Eric led FC's investments into numerous companies including Uber, Cruise, Airtable, Formlabs, Whoop, DesktopMetal (NYSE: DM), IAS (Nasdaq: IAS), and The TradeDesk (Nasdaq: TTD). Eric has been named to the Forbes Midas List, appearing as #9 in 2020.

Our Industry Experts

Tim Pham

HEAD OF PATENTS
DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL & HEAD OF IP
GENERAL COUNSEL
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Mallun Yen

VP, WORLDWIDE IP & DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CHIEF BUSINESS & PRODUCT OFFICER
MEMBER, COUNCIL

Doug Hudson

SR. PATENT COUNSEL
VP, GLOBAL LEGAL
SR. PRODUCT COUNSEL

Sean Edgett

SVP & GENERAL COUNSEL
DIRECTOR, LEGAL
Steve Anderson
FOUNDER, BASELINE

Angel Investors

Abhinav Gupta
FOUNDER
FOUNDER
Ali Rowghani
MANAGING PARTNER
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Anne Dwane
BOARD MEMBER
CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER
CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER
Artur Adib
CEO/FOUNDER
VP OF SOFTWARE
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Brian Lynn
CO-FOUNDER
HEAD OF MARKETING
HEAD OF PRODUCT MARKETING
Brian Shin
MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Chris Keller
MANAGING PARTNER
FOUNDER & CEO
David Brown
FOUNDING MANAGING PARTNER
FOUNDING VENTURE PARTNER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
David Chang
VICE PRESIDENT
DIRECTOR OF NEW PRODUCTS
COO
Eric Paley
PARTNER
BOARD DIRECTOR
CO-FOUNDER
Giuseppe Stuto
MANAGING PARTNER, CO-FOUNDER
STRATEGIC CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDER & CEO
Hemal Shah
PRODUCT LEAD
PRODUCT LEAD
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Jake Swanson
MANAGER ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
CO-FOUNDER
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Jeff Fagnan
FOUNDER
GP
FOUNDING INVESTOR
Jeff Seibert
CO-FOUNDER
CO-FOUNDER
HEAD OF CONSUMER PRODUCT
Jennifer Lum
CO-FOUNDER
VENTURE CAPITAL ADVISOR
VP IADS
Jeremy Levine
FOUNDER & CO-CEO
FOUNDER
FOUNDER
Jonathan Badeen
CO-FOUNDER
INVESTOR
Jonathan Corbin
GLOBAL VP
MENTOR
Julian Fialkow
MANAGING PARTNER
STRATEGIC VENTURES
Kevin Alvarez Fung
CO-FOUNDER
GENERAL PARTNER
PRODUCT
Kyla Sirni
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Mallun Yen
FOUNDER, CEO
CO-FOUNDER, COO
CO-FOUNDER, CEO
Matt Hillman
INVESTOR
FOUNDING PARTNER
INVESTOR
Matt Kraning
CTO
CO-FOUNDER
Michael Winter
CO-FOUNDER
INVESTOR
INVESTOR
Naval Ravikant
CEO · CHAIRMAN
INVESTOR
INVESTOR
Nicolas Susco
FOUNDER
FOUNDER
BOARD MEMBER
Nicole Stata
GENERAL PARTNER
FOUNDING INVESTOR
FOUNDING INVESTOR
Phil Beauregard
MANAGING GENERAL PARTNER
OWNER
INVESTOR
Philipp Schams
FOUNDER
INVESTOR
INVESTOR
Ron Levin
PARTNER
HEAD OF MARKETING
Rob Go
CO-FOUNDER
VC
PRODUCT MARKETING
Sean Grundy
CO-FOUNDER, CEO
EDF CLIMATE CORPS FELLOW
PROGRAM MANAGER
Scott Belsky
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
CO-FOUNDER
INVESTOR
Steve Anderson
FOUNDER
FOUNDING INVESTOR
FOUNDING INVESTOR
Vikas Mohindra
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR FINANCIAL ADVISOR
FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Waikit Lau
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
ADVISOR & INVESTOR
ADVISOR & INVESTOR
Wes Putnam
PRESIDENT
ACCOUNT MANAGER
OUTSIDE SALES
Will Koffel
GROUP PRODUCT MANAGER
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
CO-FOUNDER AND CTO