Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long.
He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine learning models for sports betting. “I’ve always been drawn to solving difficult data problems,” he told TechCrunch. He went on to consulting, where he helped companies with their AI integration strategies and learned what it took to get large enterprises to embrace the technology.
Block then took a role at an autonomous trucking company, where he saw firsthand how manual and slow the patent process was. The idea for his next company came one evening at dinner with a friend and colleague, Tobias Estreen, when Estreen’s father, a patent attorney, started recounting what his days looked like: “Reading the same kind of documents, the same way he had for thirty years,” Block recalled.
Block and Estreen saw an opening and teamed up with two others,...
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