We're passionate about our mission to solve intellectual property. Organizations today spend enormous time and resources solving hard, complex intellectual property issues.

Our team builds powerful intellectual property products that provides both the depth and the quality of information that gives our customers the edge they’re looking for.

Wayne Chang, Founder

Backed by the

Greatest Minds in Innovation

Steve Anderson

Founder, Baseline Ventures

Baseline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on seed and growth-stage investments in technology companies. The company was the first seed investor in Instagram, led the seed round in Crashlytics, an early investor of Twitter, and has been called "one of Silicon Valley's most successful — and smallest — investment firms" by Forbes.

Steve Anderson was recognized on Fortune's list of "50 Businesspeople of the Year" and ranked #5 on the Forbes Midas List.

Mallun Yen

FOUNDER AND CEO OF OPERATOR COLLECTIVE

Mallun is the Founder and CEO of Operator Collective, a venture fund and the dream team community of founders and Operator LPs. She is also the co-founder of SaaStr, the world's largest B2B SaaS community. She is also the founding board member of ChIPs. Previously, she was VP of Worldwide Intellectual Property at Cisco and Executive Vice President at RPX. She chairs the advisory board of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and is on the advisory board for Stanford Law School's Center for Law, Science and Technology.

Ali Rowghani

MANAGING DIRECTOR, Y COMBINATOR

Ali worked in finance at Pixar for nine years, serving as Chief Financial Officer between 2002 and 2008. In 2008, he left Pixar to become CFO for Twitter, a post he held for four years until he became Twitter's Chief operating officer. In November 2014, Ali joined Y Combinator as a part-time partner focusing on helping YC alumni scale their companies. Ali was appointed to the Board of Directors of Restoration Hardware in 2015.

Nicole Stata

GENERAL PARTNER, BOSTON SEED CAPITAL

Nicole M. Stata is a General Partner of Boston Seed Capital, which she founded with Peter Blacklow and David Balter in 2011. Ms. Stata was named in 2013 as one of the top 25 most influential woman in tech in Boston by VentureFiZZ. And in 2015 received the “Rising Star Venture Capitalist” award from The New England Venture Capital Association.

Naval Ravikant

CO-FOUNDER, ANGELIST

Naval Ravikant is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Notion, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, Bolt, Yammer and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn companies.

Jeff Fagnan

FOUNDER, ATLAS VENTURE & ACCOMPLICE

Exits from Fagnan's portfolio include cybersecurity company Carbon Black (acquired for $2.1B in 2019) and pharmaceutical company PillPack (acquired by Amazon for $1B in 2018).

Fagnan now serves on company boards for AngelList, Hopper and Carbon Black, among others.

Jennifer Lum

CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER, BIOSPRING

Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. She has co-founded several companies and has worked with many others on formation, fundraising, growth, and M&A.

Scott Belsky

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, ADOBE

Scott Belsky is an executive, entrepreneur, author, and investor (and all-around product obsessive). He currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.

Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012.

Eric Paley

PARTNER, FOUNDER COLLECTIVE

Eric Paley is a Partner at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund with a mission to be the most aligned fund for founders. Eric led FC's investments into numerous companies including Uber, Cruise, Airtable, Formlabs, Whoop, DesktopMetal (NYSE: DM), IAS (Nasdaq: IAS), and The TradeDesk (Nasdaq: TTD). Eric has been named to the Forbes Midas List, appearing as #9 in 2020.

Our Industry Experts

Patented is backed by intellectual property and legal experts with 100+ years of combined experience.

Tim Pham

HEAD OF PATENTS

DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL & HEAD OF IP

GENERAL COUNSEL

Mallun Yen

VP, WORLDWIDE IP & DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CHIEF BUSINESS & PRODUCT OFFICER

MEMBER, COUNCIL

Doug Hudson

SR. PATENT COUNSEL

VP, GLOBAL LEGAL

SR. PRODUCT COUNSEL

Sean Edgett

SVP & GENERAL COUNSEL

DIRECTOR, LEGAL

“Having collaborated with Wayne Chang on the remarkable success of Crashlytics, I am confident in his ability to lead another groundbreaking venture with Patented.ai.
It's thrilling to once again back Wayne's visionary approach to another very large market”.