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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
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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
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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
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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