Business Insider · Jul 2026
Pitch-deck coverage that adds revenue-mix context and reiterates enterprise customer traction in legal and corporate patent workflows.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Stilta is a Stockholm-based, YC W26 legaltech startup building agentic AI for patent enforcement, defense, and commercialization. It serves IP firms and enterprise legal teams with source-cited patent, prior-art, invalidity, infringement, and FTO analysis.
Primary product
Agentic AI software for patent enforcement, defense, and commercialization (including invalidity, infringement, and FTO analysis)
Founded
2026
Headquarters
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
LegalTech / patent AI
Offices
Vegagatan 13a, Stockholm, Stockholm County 11329, Sweden (HQ)
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise software
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
CPO & Co-Founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven and high-ownership; the company emphasizes genuine care, resourcefulness, and trust over control, and the hiring pages stress shipping to production quickly, end-to-end ownership, and enterprise-grade reliability.
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public YC job postings show base salary ranges of $100K-$200K with equity grants for founding roles; one patent role explicitly offers visa sponsorship and the engineering role says U.S. citizenship/visa is not required.
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing is not disclosed; the site directs prospects to book a demo.
Differentiators
- —source-cited and auditable outputs
- —agentic workflows for patent work instead of flat search results
- —invalidity, infringement, and FTO analysis in minutes
- —searches patents, scientific literature, file wrappers, and archived web pages
- —coverage across 180M+ patents in 100+ jurisdictions and 250M+ scientific publications
- —enterprise security controls including per-tenant isolation, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 alignment, GDPR compliance, and US/EU data residency
Technology
Python
TypeScript
OpenAI
vector databases
distributed compute
cloud orchestration
Kubernetes
Customers
Roche
Alfa Laval
Maersk
Bergenstråhle and Partners
Spotify
Mannheimer Swartling
major IP firms
in-house IP teams at global enterprises
Competitors
Harvey
Relativity Technologies
Epiq
Solve Intelligence
Patlytics
Scale & contact
Latest news
Stilta · May 2026
Company announcement of a $10.5M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Y Combinator and operator investors participating; says the funding will expand the team in Stockholm and New York and highlights enterprise traction.
TechCrunch · May 2026
TechCrunch covers the seed round and describes Stilta as an AI platform for patent research and analysis, noting the founders, round lead, and investor participation.
Law.com · May 2026
Legaltech coverage of the funding round, product focus, and hiring plans for engineers, patent specialists, and go-to-market roles in Stockholm and New York.
Stilta · Feb 2026
Company benchmark post measuring recall on PTAB IPR institution decisions and positioning Stilta's agentic approach against general LLMs and commercial patent search tools.
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