Solve Intelligence YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Solve Intelligence went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BLegal
Team size: 43
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Chris ParsonsonFounder/CEO
Sanj AhilanFounder
Angus ParsonsonFounder

What Solve Intelligence does

Solve Intelligence is the AI platform for helping legal professionals with every part of the patent process. With $55M backing from Y Combinator, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, 20VC, Operator Collective, Visionaries, and others, they have assembled a world-leading team of patent attorneys, AI PhDs, and software developers to build products for patent application drafting, office action responses, invention harvesting, claim charting, infringement analysis, FTO, validity challenges, patent litigation, and more. They are now selling their 100% secure and confidential software to 500+ IP firms and in-house teams across the US, Europe, and Asia (e.g. DLA Piper, Siemens, Perkins Coie, Amgen - see customers Solve customers are reporting 60-90% efficiency and quality improvements (see testimonials See a demo today:

Solve Intelligence's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Solve Intelligence, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Solve Intelligence

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI patent drafting and legal support for teams

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building an AI platform that helps legal professionals handle every stage of the patent process. Our software assists with drafting patent applications, responding to office actions, harvesting inventions, claim charting, infringement analysis, freedom-to-operate searches, validity challenges, and patent litigation support. Our aim is to improve efficiency and quality for patent attorneys and in-house IP teams.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in London, United Kingdom, and the company is based here. After YC, we will continue to be based in London.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose London because that's where our founders and initial team are located. The UK has a strong IP and patent legal market, which aligns with our customers and product focus.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Solve Intelligence YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Solve Intelligence's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Solve Intelligence would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.