Founder's Associate

Ankar

Full-time Management & Operations
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Location
london, england, United-Kingdom
Posted
June 07, 2026

Job Description

The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas canโ€™t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., IP) โ€” yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work , sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. Weโ€™re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the AI Platform for the Trillion Dollar Innovation Economy โ€” a suite of tools that helps inventors explore, create, and protect ideas . Weโ€™re removing the friction from the invention process, starting with IP protection and expanding toward creation and exploration .

Weโ€™re already seeing this vision come to life:

  • Weโ€™ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO fro...