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

Melissa Anastasiou has been appointed Chief Legal Officer of Sharon AI Holdings. Melissa will lead legal, governance, and compliance functions as the neocloud and AI infrastructure company scales. Melissa brings more than two decades of experience across legal, finance and governance. In Melissa's previous executive tenure at Spark New Zealand, she chaired the company's AI & Data Ethics Committee, pioneering enterprise AI governance and responsible data frameworks. Melissa jo