Clerq Ip

Legal AI
1open role
1backers · Draper Associates
50+team · employees, estimated range
2021founded

Overview

Clerq is the AI clerk for patent professionals, combining agentic prior art research, intelligent search, patent analytics, and workflow tools.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 1 open role at Clerq Ip. Clerq Ip is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It was founded in 2021.

Open roles
1Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
Headquarters
Toronto, CanadaAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Founded
2021Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Employees
50+Alion company profile, an estimated range

Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Draper Associates
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 10%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

No jobs available at this time.

Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~9 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▲

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
186 portfolio companies: Gomaestro, riddia.com, Magnolia Financial Services, Inc. and 183 more

News

News LegalTech.ca 3 months ago
NLPatent Rebrands as Clerq, Expands Into Agentic Patent Workflows
Toronto-based patent intelligence company NLPatent has rebranded as Clerq, reflecting its evolution from an AI-powered research platform into a system that can complete patent research assignments from start to finish. CEO and co-founder Stephanie Curcio
Read more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Toronto
Toronto Canada
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings

How to cite this page

Alion, "Clerq Ip: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/clerq-ip

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