- Lightbringer has raised $10 million in a Series A co-led by 6 Degrees Capital and Newion to expand into the US.
- The Swedish AI patent platform reported 300% year-over-year revenue growth in Q2 2026 and serves more than 200 deep tech companies across 17 countries.
- Unlike most legal AI tools, Lightbringer aims to replace traditional patent firms entirely, cutting filing times from two months to a few days at half the cost.
Most deep tech startups build innovations that could reshape industries, then spend months waiting to protect them. The patent system, designed for a different era, treats speed as a luxury. Lightbringer was founded by people who built that system and decided it needed to be rebuilt from scratch.
The Swedish company has raised $10 million in a Series A co-led by London-based 6 Degrees Capital and Amsterdam-based Newion, building on its seed round led by Luminar Ventures and Alliance VC in late 2024. The capital will support product development, US market entry, and the relocation of CEO Dominic Davies to lead American expansion.
“Intellectual property has become one of the most powerful assets a deep tech company can have. In a hyper-competitive market, the speed at which an inventor can file a patent application can mean the difference between a company’s success and demise,” Davies says.
The founders who built the system then decided to burn it down
Lightbringer was founded in 2023 by Davies, a patent attorney with 20 years of experience; Markus Andreasso, a software engineer with 25 years at Sony and Voyado who holds more than 50 patents; and Ola Wassvik, former co-founder and chief technology officer of FlatFrog, who managed more than 300 patent families on approximately $100 million in venture funding.
Founders did not arrive at patent law as outsiders. They built it, saw first-hand why it was broken, and decided to fix it.
The platform combines agentic AI with in-house patent attorneys, allowing companies to capture inventions, draft applications, manage portfolios, conduct competitor analysis, and develop intellectual property strategies through a single interface.
It reduces typical filing timelines from around two months to a few days and cuts costs by approximately 50% through a fixed-price subscription model. Lightbringer calls this “service as software,” a hybrid of traditionally human-led legal services and AI automation.
Since launching in 2024, it has served more than 200 deep tech companies across 17 countries, including defence drone company Arctic Ravn, quantum sensing startup DIASENSE, infrastructure specialist TERASi, and clean-air technology company Cler.
Why this is different from every other legal AI company
Lightbringer enters a legal AI market where capital is flowing at an unprecedented pace, but its patent-specific focus sets it apart from most rivals. Harvey, the San Francisco-based legal AI company raised $200 million in March 2026 at an $11 billion valuation in a round co-led by GIC and Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, and Kleiner Perkins. Luminance, the Cambridge-founded legal AI company, raised $75 million in a Series C in February 2025 led by Point72 Private Investments focused on contract analysis and document review for enterprise legal departments.
What sets Lightbringer apart is its ambition to own the entire patent lifecycle, from invention capture and filing to portfolio management and competitive intelligence, without routing that work through a traditional law firm at all.
“Lightbringer is solving a major structural problem in the global innovation ecosystem,” said Thomas Olszewski, partner at 6 Degrees Capital, who joins the board alongside Dorus Olgers, partner at Newion. “What Lightbringer has built is not simply a more efficient law firm, but an entirely new category of AI-native intellectual property infrastructure.”
Olgers added that the team had turned “deep legal and technical expertise into a product founders actually adopt” at exceptional speed.
What’s next?
The global IP law services market was valued at $19.1 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $30.5 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 5.4%, according to Verified Market Reports. The patent law services segment alone is even larger: the global patent law firm services market was valued at $20.19 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach approximately $49.59 billion by 2034, growing at a CAGR of 9.4%, according to Statifacts, driven by rising global R&D investment and increasing patent filings across technology, life sciences, and green tech.
The $10 million raise will fund product development, US market entry, and continued international growth. Lightbringer is headquartered in Malmö with offices in Stockholm, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
