Sauvegarder Investment Management (SIM IP), an intellectual property-based investment and monetization firm, and Garden Intel, an AI-driven patent intelligence company, announced they have closed a merger that values Garden Intel at $150 million. The combined business will operate under the SIM IP brand, with Garden Intel positioned as the technology engine.
The companies are framing the transaction as a bid to build a vertically integrated platform that pairs SIM IP’s licensing execution and industry relationships with Garden Intel’s agentic AI infrastructure for patent analysis. They argue that the combination is aimed at addressing what they describe as a major market inefficiency in the patent asset class and at accelerating and scaling the pace and scale at which patents can be evaluated, priced, and monetized.
A central pillar of the strategy is a proprietary data “flywheel” that blends patent-level information with real-world commercial signals across science and technology. The companies said each analyzed patent and executed license is intended to feed pricing and validity insights back into models, with the goal of improving performance as the platform scales.
They also emphasized operating leverage. Garden Intel’s technology is positioned to compress patent discovery and diligence timelines from months to hours, reduce reliance on large expert and legal teams, and enable non-linear scaling without proportional headcount growth. The merged company said it intends to push beyond traditional litigation finance and patent monetization toward a category it calls “Asset Based AI,” treating patents as dynamic, data-backed financial instruments, and it highlighted ambitions to pursue significant revenue growth as it prepares for the public markets.
KEY QUOTES
“We are building the only platform in the market where the asset class becomes more intelligent with scale, and among all our customers, SIM IP clearly stood out as the ideal entity to merge Garden with.” As a combined force, we view our customers now as patent owners that only SIM IP works with. Every patent we analyze, and every license SIM IP executes, feeds proprietary pricing and validity data back into our models. This creates a network effect: greater data attracts more assets, which yields better data, and most importantly, rewards those who innovate with enhanced and faster economic returns. We are building a defensive moat around the financialization of innovation that manual operators cannot penetrate.”
Adi Sidapara, Chief Executive Officer, Garden Intel
“Current market inefficiency is massive, and the opportunity to correct it is generational. SIM IP brings immense market access and proven transaction success, while Garden brings the unique analytical precision that makes those transactions faster, cheaper, and smarter. This merger ultimately will change the IP asset class, as we strive towards becoming the leader in unlocking value in IP investments. Together, we are building an infrastructure that will define how innovation is valued and monetized for decades to come.”
Erich Spangenberg, Chief Executive Officer, SIM IP
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