theLITVentures VENTURE + IP
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WE BACK
01 // VENTURE CAPITAL
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AI FOUNDERS
03 // VISIONARY TEAMS
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BUILDING
04 // OFFENSIVE & DEFENSIVE TOOLS
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IMPORTANT
05 // GLOBAL SCALING
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THINGS.
06 // ENDURING ADVANTAGE

AI startups and high-growth companies require more than just funding to be successful. We understand that.

In today's hyper-competitive, global marketplace, having relevant and advantage-producing IP assets is critical. We provide funding, IP assets (e.g., licenses to patents and technologies), and tools to help companies successfully scale both nationally and internationally.

WHAT WE DO // THE LIT VENTURES' PERSPECTIVE

VC In The Era Of AI:
Where Capital Meets IP Assets.

Startup and growth funding is available through traditional VC and PE. But, VC and PE firms typically do not provide IP assets that enable their portfolio companies to attract customers, defend their product and market, and quickly scale both nationally and internationally.

We do!

We seek out teams that have a vision, deep domain knowledge and can execute. We provide the capital & assets.

01 / LICENSE TO HARDENED IP ASSETS

We provide licenses to a worldwide portfolio of hardened and stress-tested patents and technology that are relevant for the business and strategic advantage of the portfolio company.

02 / OFFENSIVE & DEFENSIVE TOOLS

We have significant experience with legal and other strategies and tools based on the IP assets that further protect our portfolio companies from new entrants and established competitors.

03 / NEW IP DEVELOPMENT

We work with our portfolio companies to develop new IP assets that further build upon our existing IP assets to enable additional competitive advantages and erect further barriers-to-entry.

04 / VENTURE FUNDING

We invest in high quality businesses and teams that have identified unique opportunities and are laser-focused on capitalizing on those market opportunities.

NEWS & PORTFOLIO
01 / HARDENED IP ASSETS

What Companies & CEOs Say
About The IP Assets

[The patent portfolio is] ... recognized across the mobile ecosystem for its technical importance, covers foundational technologies for highly efficient network communication between mobile devices and servers, dynamic delivery of content and app logic, and cross-device synchronization. These methods underpin many modern mobile app experiences used by global brands today ... represent significant and enabling technological advances in modern mobile applications.

"...delivering the most advanced AI-powered mobile development and growth capabilities"
— Former Microsoft product executive and current CEO
"We retained one of the largest and best law firms in the world to analyze [this] patent portfolio. After that analysis, [we] decided to take a global license to [this] impressive patent portfolio, the core of which covers critical distributed computing technologies, including highly efficient network communications between mobile devices and servers. As an innovator myself, I appreciate and understand the innovation represented by [these assets]."
— Founder and CEO
"...challenging the validity [of these patents]... would be difficult ... [and] high burden of proving invalidity."
— Unicorn startup
02 / CASE STUDY: AI FOR DETECTING CANCER
Identifying Cancer & Other Diseases Almost Instantly

A startup founder from U.C. Berkeley had deep domain knowledge in computer science as well as in detecting disease, including cancers, through the analysis of various medical scans, including Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scans, Computed Tomography (CT) scans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.

Using the IP assets and other tools, he was able to turn his vision for an AI-based system for detecting cancers and other diseases into a fully operational system within two-weeks. He was then able to move to validation studies, and start to approach customers and partners.

When another company entered the market with a similar solution, the startup was able to work with The Lit Ventures to address the issue.

If you have a vision, deep domain knowledge and can execute, come work with us.

CONTACT & VENTURE INQUIRIES
CAPITAL +
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