Park IP and NLPatent partner to connect patent intelligence and global IP support. Date posted July 14, 2026 Preferred provider agreement reflects both companies' commitment to supporting innovators with specialized expertise to protect intellectual property across borders. [NEW YORK, July 14, 2026] - Park IP, a global IP solutions partner built for modern intellectual property work, and NLPatent, an AI-driven patent research and intelligence platform, have joined forces to deliver a more connected experience for their clients. Through a preferred provider agreement, the two companies are unifying specialized expertise across the patent lifecycle, from prior art research and intelligence to foreign filing, translation, and global portfolio management. NLPatent combined patent-domain expertise, proprietary AI, and directed workflows to help patent professionals move from question to answer to defensible work product faster, with more confidence, and without giving up control. Through the agreement, NLPatent's search, monitor, and visualize capabilities will be accessible through Legal Studio, Park IP's platform for managing patent translation and global intellectual property workflows. Park IP will serve as NLPatent's preferred provider for patent translation and foreign filing services, creating a streamlined experience for clients seeking both patent intelligence and global IP support. The partnership provides clients with access to trusted expertise and connected services designed to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and support innovation. "Innovation is increasingly global, but the processes required to protect it often remain fragmented," comments Erin Wynn, GM at Park IP. "Our partnership with NLPatent brings patent intelligence, multilingual expertise, and global IP support together in a more connected experience, helping organizations move more efficiently from patent discovery and analysis to protection and commercialization." As organizations expand internationally, patent portfolios increasingly require collaboration between technical, legal, and language experts. The partnership helps clients access those capabilities through a coordinated ecosystem of services designed to reduce complexity and improve efficiency. "Patent research and analysis are critical first steps in building a successful intellectual property strategy," notes Stephanie Curcio, CEO at NLPatent. "Through our partnership with Park IP, clients can move seamlessly from patent intelligence that understands claims, prior art, technical language, and context to the specialized translation and language services required to protect innovations in global markets." About Park IP Park IP, a Welo Global brand, is a global IP solutions partner built for modern intellectual property work. The company enables legal teams to protect intellectual assets with accuracy, clarity, and confidence across jurisdictions. Trusted by Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 corporate legal departments, Park IP combines deep IP expertise with AI-powered workflows that reduce risk, improve predictability, and deliver greater visibility and control across the IP lifecycle, from prosecution to litigation and compliance. Its Legal Studio platform strengthens portfolio management through jurisdiction-specific coordination and real-time oversight, while experienced IP professionals remain accountable for quality and judgment. Operating under ISO-aligned quality and security standards, Park IP advances a disciplined and transparent approach to managing intellectual property worldwide. parkip.com About NLPatent NLPatent is an AI-driven patent research and intelligence platform purpose-built for the way IP professionals work. Its patent-specific AI helps law firms, corporate IP teams, and innovators conduct prior art search, monitor competitive activity, and analyze patent portfolios with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence. By pairing deep patent-domain knowledge with proprietary technology, NLPatent surfaces valuable patent and non-patent literature insights while keeping expert judgment at the center of every decision. Trusted by Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 corporations across North America and Europe, NLPatent maintains SOC 2 Type II compliance and aligns its practices with ISO 27001 standards. nlpatent.com

NLPatent secures $3 million USD to enhance ai-driven patent research. News summary. Toronto-based legaltech startup NLPatent has raised $3 million USD in a funding round co-led by Silicon Valley investors Draper Associates and Mighty Capital. The startup, founded by former IP lawyer Stephanie Curcio and software engineer James Stonehill, aims to revolutionize patent research using AI. NLPatent's platform assists over 2,000 IP professionals in making informed decisions through advanced natural language processing. The new funds will be used to expand its presence in North America and Europe and advance its AI capabilities. This funding round follows a previous $1.4 million CAD equity seed round. The company plans to pursue a larger Series A in the future as it continues to lead in the AI legaltech space. Story coverage.

NLPatent's $3-million USD raise helps it power patent research with AI. Four years ago, intellectual property (IP) lawyer and NLPatent co-founder and CEO Stephanie Curcio set out to make her colleagues' lives easier, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Curcio knew it was difficult and time-consuming to retrieve relevant patent documents through keyword searches that often failed to capture the nuanced language of inventions. So she teamed up with co-founder and CTO James Stonehill - an experienced software engineer - to build a better way. "Our vision is for NLPatent to be the infrastructure, the operating system behind how patent work gets done in the AI era." Stephanie Curcio, NLPatent "I was persuaded to leave my legal practice because I saw an opportunity to create a business around a new technology that was so obviously applicable to the work that I was doing as a lawyer," Curcio told BetaKit in an interview. Since then, the Toronto-based legaltech startup has developed what Curcio described as "a complete research platform." She claims NLPatent helps more than 2,000 IP and research and development (R&D) professionals - across leading IP law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and universities - make better, faster decisions with the help of natural language processing. "NLPatent is a lot more than just a search tool today... We've taken that concept of just surfacing relevant documents to the next level," Curcio said. This progress has helped NLPatent secure $3 million USD in fresh financing, co-led by two new Silicon Valley-based investors in Draper Associates and Mighty Capital. The all-equity, all-primary capital round, which closed in September, was supported by existing backers including Miami-based The LegalTech Fund, Toronto's Storytime Capital, and Calgary-based The51. Curcio said NLPatent intends to use this money to expand its presence across North America and Europe. It also aims to accelerate its product development plans, which include evolving its AI capabilities and building "fully agentic workflows that execute complex patent tasks." "That's the exciting thing, the sexy thing that we're building," Curcio said. "We've been doing the boring stuff up to this point, but in my opinion, you need to do the boring stuff to give you a right to win at the sexy, exciting stuff." NLPatent's AI-based patent search and analytics software includes modules for searching, monitoring, and visualizing patent documents and trends based on proprietary, domain-tuned large-language models. Curcio said the company helps organizations gather business intelligence based on those documents to make more informed IP or R&D decisions. "Our vision is for NLPatent to be the infrastructure, the operating system behind how patent work gets done in the AI era," Curcio said. NLPatent previously raised $1.4 million CAD in funding across a $1-million equity seed round in October 2023 that Storytime led, with participation from The LegalTech Fund and The51, plus $400,000 worth of simple agreements for future equity since then. Curcio said NLPatent aims to raise a larger Series A at a later date. AI is already disrupting the legal industry in a variety of ways, and investors appear to have recognized this: amid the AI boom, funding for legaltech companies has been on the rise this year. Law360 found that legaltech financing surged 80 percent year-over-year in the first quarter. Earlier this week, Burnaby-based legaltech firm Clio announced that it had closed a $500-million USD Series G, $350 million in debt, and a $1-billion deal to buy vLex as it bets big on AI playing a "foundational" role in the future of legal software. Curcio acknowledged that activity in the AI for IP space has been heating up, and said that it is "cool to see as an early mover." Last month, Silicon Valley's Perplexity announced a tool aimed at simplifying patent research. Earlier this year, New York's Patlytics closed a $14-million Series A to expand its own patent analytics platform, while Delaware's Solve Intelligence secured a $12-million Series A to fuel similar efforts. The CEO said she believes that NLPatent's head start and the reputation it has built within this patent space will continue to set the startup apart as more players develop AI for IP solutions. "We went through a lot of pain in the early days to build something that delivers on the promise of what it's supposed to do," Curcio added.