Stilta raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build agentic AI software for patent enforcement, defense, and commercialization. Business Insider reported July 8, 2026, that the startup was founded in January 2026 by former McKinsey consultants and uses agents to search patents, academic papers, file histories, web archives, and other evidence sources. For practitioners, the important technical problem is not simply summarizing patents; it is high-recall retrieval, claim-level provenance, and auditable evidence mapping in a legal workflow where missed sources can change case strategy.
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