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Funding and backers

Total raised
$338M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$300M
Venture round · Mar 2021 · 5 yr ago
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
3
Summit Partners, HongShan
The money's age
Long since its last round
67 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 16, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $300M · SiliconANGLE Jun 14, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $38M · TechCrunch Nov 8, 2016 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: View your competitors intellectual property on Crunchbase and LinkedIn Dec 2006 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2021 $300M — SiliconANGLE
Venture round Jun 2018 $38M — TechCrunch
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Overview

PatSnap is a leading provider of IP and R&D innovation intelligence platforms. It leverages advanced AI technologies to help companies enhance productivity, drive innovation, and accelerate business growth by providing insights into patent and R&D processes. PatSnap's offerings aim to reduce R&D costs, assist in the discovery of new materials, and support life sciences intelligence.

News

News noteノート 22 days ago
Learning about IP & R&D We have released a collection of Patsnap seminar videos!PatSnap Japan
"I was interested, but couldn't attend on the day""I want to review the content carefully once more"For those of you, we have released videos of the seminars and webinars that Patsnap has held so far on the official Patsnap Japan YouTube channel! The cont
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News noteノート 22 days ago
Getting a Bird's-Eye View of the Semiconductor Market with Eureka: The First Step in Exploring Research ThemesPatSnap Japan
Against the backdrop of the widespread adoption of generative AI, the market for semiconductors for AI servers and data centers continues to grow rapidly. At the same time, it has become more difficult than ever for R&D departments to determine which tech
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Blog 2 months ago
What is a Knowledge Base? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose Every organization possesses knowledge that gives it a competitive advantage. How products are designed. Why decisions were made. What worked during previous research projects. What failed. And what employees have learned from years of
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Blog 2 months ago
What is a Vector Database? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." - Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" If you've spent any time reading about enterprise AI, you've probably co
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Blog 2 months ago
What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose "There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it." - Clifford Stoll Retrieval-Augmented Generation, better known as RAG, has become one of the most discussed concepts in enterpri
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Blog 2 months ago
What is MCP? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose "When one abdicates universality, one obtains universal horror." - Alain Badiou It might be hyperbolic to associate a lack of universal AI integration tools with "horror." That being said, not understanding MCP could introduce more fri
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Press release 2 months ago
What is Machine Learning?: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
If artificial intelligence has become a boardroom topic, machine learning is the term that often appears soon after. It shows up in strategy presentations, technology roadmaps, analyst reports, and vendor demonstrations.
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Blog 2 months ago
What Is Agentic AI? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B.F. Skinner Over the past year, a new term has started appearing alongside discussions about AI, machine learning, generative AI, and large language models: AI ag
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Blog 3 months ago
What is Generative AI? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose "By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it." - Eliezer Yudkowsky Few technology terms have entered business conversations as quickly as generative AI (GenAI). Over
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Blog 3 months ago
What is a Large Language Model (LLM)? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Author: Lakeem Rose "For last year's words belong to last year's language/And next year's words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot At some point in the past year, someone in your organization has probably referred to an "LLM." Maybe it appeared in a discu
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Patsnap over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
27
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Java
JavaScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Vue.js
Apache ECharts
D3.js
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
LangSmith
Linux
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Patsnap tech stack 27 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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.
Backend
50% ▼
QA
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Semantic Search to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Singapore
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Singapore Singapore
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for AI/ML, Backend
seen since Jul 2026
Tokyo Japan
1 open roles
hires for Solutions
seen since Jun 2026
Suzhou China
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $63k Avg Salary
hires for QA
seen since Oct 2026 job postings

Jobs

$45k – $63k per year • In office • Full-Time • Suzhou
Python
Java
DeepEval
LangSmith
Promptfoo
Ragas
LLM
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
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≈ $37k – $77k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Singapore
Python
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
Node JS
FastAPI
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Semantic Search
Semantic Search
Frontend
Vue.js
D3.js
React.js
Apache ECharts
DevOps
WebSockets
CI/CD
Git
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Singapore
Python
JavaScript
Prompt Engineering
LLM
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
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In office • Full-Time • Tokyo
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
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Financials

Total raised
$338M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $300M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $38M Details