date 2026-09-23 (week) read as 2026-09-23 (day, forbes.com)
Sources agree on the $5.5 million amount, the four participating investors, and the September 23, 2026 announcement date. Fortune explicitly labels the round seed; Forbes describes it as a funding round but does not state a stage.
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date 2026-09-23 (week) read as 2026-09-23 (day, forbes.com)
Sources agree on the $5.5 million amount, the four participating investors, and the September 23, 2026 announcement date. Fortune explicitly labels the round seed; Forbes describes it as a funding round but does not state a stage.
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Fearn builds AI-powered patent-drafting and prosecution services for startups, researchers, and enterprise R&D teams that need high-quality patents filed quickly.
Founders
Han Kim · Co-Founder & CEO
Before Fearn, Han drafted and prosecuted patents at Morrison Foerster and was a PhD student in computational neuroscience at Caltech.
Angela Gao · Co-Founder & CTO
Angela completed a PhD in computational and mathematical sciences at Caltech under Katie Bouman and previously conducted machine-learning research at Google.
Founded
2025
Headcount
7 employees
Total raised
$5.5 million
Business model
Fearn charges fixed fees per patent-prosecution stage rather than hourly billing, including $2,500 for a provisional application, $9,000 for a non-provisional PCT, $7,500 for US national-phase entry, and $3,500 per office-action response.
Fearn says the traditional patent process can take weeks or months and make fast priority filing accessible mainly to well-funded organizations, while its platform cuts drafting from 50-plus hours to about 20 minutes and reduces costs by up to 96%. Its $5.5 million seed round, led by Kindred Ventures, is intended to expand purpose-built patent models and filing capabilities for inventors ranging from solo researchers to enterprise R&D teams.
Designer Fund
Essence VC
Kindred Ventures