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Angela Gao Co-Founds Fearn, an AI-Native Patent Prosecution Firm, Raises $5.5 Seed Funding
Fearn, a patent generation platform relying on artificial intelligence, announced on Wednesday the raising of $5.5 million in a seed funding round from Kindred, a16z Speedrun, and other investors to expand Fearn's platform and pivot into an AI-native patent prosecution firm. It's "not a software tool sold to lawyers, but a firm that employs its own former Big Law patent experts and runs its drafting through a system called FearnOS," as reported in Tech Funding News on Septemb
She left Big Law to become an investor, but building her own AI firm proved more lucrative.
Kristina Subbotina left BigLaw (Cooley), broke stigmas, and went viral, as the founder and CEO of Lexsy, an AI-powered law firm for startups. Read how Kristina found success, doing it her way. https://www.businessinsider.com/big-law-cooley-ai-agents-legal-platform-2026-6
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