Stilta
Legal AI · AI Agents
2open roles
$10.5Mlatest round · Seed · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
1backers · Y Combinator
10+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Stilta builds agentic AI to enforce, defend, and analyze patents. Backed by a16z, NVIDIA and Y Combinator, Stilta is used by leading IP firms and in-house IP teams at global enterprises.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$10.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10.5M
Seed · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
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
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | May 2026 | $10.5M | — | TechCrunch |
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Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
171 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
DevOps
50% ▲
Early Careers
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Context Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack
Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack
Sep 2026
Added Azure to stack
Sep 2026
Removed Vector from stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$10.5M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $10.5M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Stilta over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI
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Kubernetes
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News
They left McKinsey to help businesses fight patent violations. See the pitch deck they used to raise $10 million.
Four colleagues left McKinsey to build AI tools for patent law. Read the pitch deck they used to raise from investors like Andreessen Horowitz.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
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Stockholm
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3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff
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