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AI-powered sourcing and diligence
for deal professionals

A comprehensive solution
for IP Professionals

We offer the most advanced AI Platform architected by IP professionals for IP professionals who build, manage, defend, and monetize Intellectual Property.

Moat Metrics offers a proven AI Platform that has been developed, tested, and used in growth stage financing to give deal professionals decision-critical insights into targets more efficiently.

Our founding team has decades of experience in IP, Insurance, M&A, and AI technologies

Lewis Lee

Founder | CEO

Founder, CEO of Aon IPS
Founded National IP Law Firm, Lee & Hayes, PC
35+ yrs IP attorney
Global Top 300 IP strategists and Top 1000 patent attorneys
Founded IP analytics firms IPStreet and 601West (acquired by Aon)
Served on Economic Advisory Council for Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Richard Denenny

President & CFO

Global Head of Advisory, Aon IPS
Former CEO/CFO of National IP Firm, Lee & Hayes, PC
Over twenty years running or representing emerging companies
Over 5 years as Chair of Venture Debt Provider

Sam Fleming

CTO and Co-Founder

CTO architect of IP Genome® Platform, now commercializing as Innovation Alpha™
25+ yrs experience in technology and product architecture
Experienced in NLP/ML/AI
Product lead for NLP company
Founder, successful Web startup

2015 - 2018 – Creation

Lee & Hayes
601 West

Fundamental analytics were developed by IP professionals for use by IP professionals
Aon acquired 601West in 2018 to accelerate investment in technology development

2018 - 2024 – Development &
Application to Insurance

Aon

Evolved fundamental analytics into a foundational AI-based category-defining technology with queryable relationships among products, technologies, IP, entities, investment, risk, and value
Core technology facilitated insurance-enhanced IP-collateralized debt financing for growth stage companies and underwriting IP risk

2024 - Present –
TAM Expansion

Moat Metrics

Moat Metrics launched as a spin out from Aon in June 2024 to commercialize our AI platform to the public
MVP launched late Q4 2024 to demo capabilities and initiate trials with various personas