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A comprehensive solution
for IP Professionals

AI-powered sourcing and diligence
for deal professionals

Founded by a veteran team of entrepreneurial executives

Moat Metrics offers an integrated AI Platform architected by IP professionals to deliver contextualized workflows 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