--- title: Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies... description: Stilta, an AI-powered legal tech startup, has raised a $10.5M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator and operators from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stilta-raises-10-5m-from-a16z-and-yc-to-help-companies-rediscover-the-patents-they-forgot-they-had-jgpya3m47 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had | daily.dev og:description: Stilta, an AI-powered legal tech startup, has raised a $10.5M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator and operators from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stilta-raises-10-5m-from-a16z-and-yc-to-help-companies-rediscover-the-patents-they-forgot-they-had-jgpya3m47 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jGPyA3m47.png og:image:alt: Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stilta, an AI-powered legal tech startup, has raised a $10.5M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator and operators from OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable. The platform uses a network of AI agents to automate patent research and analysis — tasks that have historically been slow and expensive. Users input a patent number and relevant content, and the system searches for conflicting patents, flags similar IP, and pulls filing and court history, producing litigation-grade reports with citations. The company targets the large pool of patents that companies have never enforced or licensed due to prohibitive analytical costs, aiming to unlock latent value in corporate IP portfolios. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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