Lightbringer raises €8.6M Series A to take on Big Law on patents

Malmö-based Lightbringer has raised a €8.6 million ($10 million) Series A co-led by London's 6 Degrees Capital and Amsterdam's Newion, with existing backers Luminar Ventures and Alliance VC returning. The two firms had led the company's €4.2 million round in December 2024.

Unbundling the patent firm

Lightbringer's pitch is a direct attack on how intellectual property gets filed. Patents are slow and expensive, and the work has long been the preserve of specialist law firms billing by the hour. Lightbringer pairs AI with in-house patent attorneys to file and manage patents for deeptech companies directly — software-first, without routing every step through an outside firm.

Co-founder and CEO Dominic Davies frames it as a deliberate inversion of the incumbent model: take on "Big Law" and hand the value back to the founders doing the inventing. It is the kind of AI-plus-experts unbundling that has worked in adjacent professional services, applied to a niche — IP — where the cost and opacity are acute and the customers (technical founders) are unusually willing to try software.

A transatlantic bet

Founded in 2023 by Davies, Ola Wassvik and Markus Andreasson, Lightbringer already runs offices in Stockholm, London and the San Francisco Bay Area. The new capital is pointed squarely at the United States — Davies says he is relocating to lead operations there — alongside the next phase of the platform's product development.

The round is modest by the quarter's AI-inflated standards, which is part of its interest: a focused, mid-single-digit Series A into a vertical software business with a clear incumbent to displace. The bet is that the firms billing hourly for patents are exactly the kind of intermediary a good model, wrapped around real attorneys, can undercut.