AI-powered enterprise R&D intelligence platform for patent search, landscape analysis, and innovation monitoring. Core capabilities: unified access to 500M+ patents and 270M+ scientific papers from 150+ countries, AI patent landscape analysis, prior art search automation, Cypris Q AI research agent for comprehensive report generation, Innovation Dashboard with real-time competitive intelligence, and multimodal search (patents, papers, images). Founded 2021 by Steve Hafif and Amir Achourie, headquartered in New York. $11M total funding ($5.3M venture round led by Vocap Partners). SOC 2 Type II certified. G2: 4.7/5 (3 reviews). Competitors: PatSnap (#1 incumbent), Questel Orbit, Derwent Innovation (Clarivate), Relecura, Google Patents. Primarily serves enterprise R&D and innovation teams, not IP law firms directly — though IP attorneys use it for prior art search and patent landscape analysis. MODERATE LEGAL RELEVANCE: IP practitioners (patent attorneys, in-house IP counsel) interact with patent data that Cypris surfaces, but primary users are R&D teams.
Company Info
- Founded: 2023
- Team size: 11-50 employees
- Funding: $11M
- HQ: United States
- Sector: Marketing & Intake, Knowledge Management
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Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Cypris is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Cypris addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Patent attorney conducting a prior art search for a client's invention spends 2-3 days manually searching USPTO, EPO, and non-patent literature databases — reading hundreds of abstracts, mapping claims to prior art references, and still worrying they missed something in a Chinese or Japanese patent that wasn't translated. The search costs the client $5,000-15,000 and the attorney still can't guarantee completeness
R&D team submits invention disclosures into a black box — they never hear back about patent decisions, don't understand why some inventions get filed and others don't, and eventually stop submitting because the process feels pointless
Where it fits in your workflow
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