For Investors
Turn Your Investment into Protected Company Value
From early-stage invention to international growth and exit, we help companies turn proprietary software, deep tech, and brand assets into protected value that maximizes company valuation at every funding round.
The Hunt for Value
Protecting unique innovations makes a company fundamentally more defensible. A clean, well-managed IP portfolio secures market share early, turning proprietary tech into higher valuations from seed stage all the way to exit.
Start-up
10.2x
higher likelihood of early-stage VC funding1
for European startups that had filed both patents and trade marks, compared with startups without them.
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¹ “Patents, trade marks and startup finance: Funding and exit performance of European startups (Executive summary)”, EPO/EUIPO, Oct 2023.
Scale-up
€3M
valuation a single patent can reach2
findings from a study on The value of European patents.
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² A. Gambardella, D. Harhoff, and B. Verspagen, “The value of European patents,” Eur. Manag. Rev., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 69–84, 2008.
Exit
3.2x
higher likelihood of successful exit3
for startups that had filed both patents and trademarks. The EPO/EUIPO study found the strongest association with IPO or acquisition among companies combining both forms of protection.
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³ “Patents, trade marks and startup finance: Funding and exit performance of European startups (Executive summary)”, EPO/EUIPO, Oct 2023.
Under Evaluation
You heard a great pitch.
Make sure it’s worth investing in.
At this stage, founders move fast, and pitch decks make early innovation sound unbeatable. But before signing a term sheet, you need certainty that the IP highlighted in the deck is genuinely defensible, properly owned by the company, and built to drive long-term value.
Typical risks
- Gilded disclosures: Summaries that omit claim scopes, pending disputes, or third-party challenges.
- Unclear ownership: Broken chains of title that risk asset ownership.
- Strategic misalignment: IP portfolios that protect vanity metrics rather than actual pricing power.
- Hidden FTO exposure: Infringement risks that turn promising market entry into legal liabilities.
Due Diligence
Make sure the IP you are backing actually exists, delivers real defensibility, and is 100 % owned by the company.
Portfolio Growth
You’ve backed a high-potential startup. Now ensure it scales into a lasting success. We help your portfolio companies expand their IP moats as they grow, keeping competitors at bay and driving valuation up for future funding rounds.
Recently Invested
Securing Momentum
You’ve invested in the vision. Now it’s about turning early momentum into enduring success. Rapid hiring and product rollouts create immense opportunity, but also fresh IP exposure. We help your newly funded startups safeguard what they build.
Typical risks
- Innovation leakage: New technical breakthroughs go unprotected and enter the public domain.
- Passive IP enforcement: Existing rights lose commercial power because of competitor encroachment.
- Poor innovation governance and culture: Teams lack processes for invention capture and contractor assignments.
- Roadmap disconnect: IP activity runs on a parallel track rather than directly protecting markets, features, and valuation.
Portolio Growth Strategy
Gain crystal-clear clarity on how and where the company’s IP should expand. We help newly backed teams identify high-impact innovations and prioritize key target markets, ensuring protection focuses precisely where commercial value is being created.
Single Point of Contact
Managing international IP shouldn’t mean juggling a dozen law firms. We act as your unified partner, giving you transparent visibility, consistent strategy, and streamlined communication across all jurisdictions.
Patent Strategy
Capital deployment should accelerate invention, not slow down protection. We capture new iterations, architectures, and features into high-value patents that compound enterprise valuation for future rounds.
Invention Policies
Make sure your portfolio companies establish formal employee invention policies. We implement legally compliant processes to ensure all internal innovations are captured, formally transferred, and properly compensated.
IP Infringement Actions
Make sure no one capitalizes on what you’ve funded. We identify violations early and execute swift, strategic enforcement to end infringement and preserve market leadership.
Growing Portfolio
Stay on Top of Your Growing IP Portfolio
As your investments grow, so do the IP portfolios that underpin their value. Maintain clear visibility and strategic control across all your holdings to ensure every company’s proprietary edge stays fully protected.
Typical risks
- Fragmented communication: Juggling disparate law firms and patent attorneys across multiple companies leads to communication breakdowns and administrative chaos.
- Blind spots: Without a centralized overview of all portfolio assets, deadlines, maintenance fees, and territorial protection gaps easily slip through the cracks.
- Losing the big picture: Managing individual filings makes it easy to lose sight of overarching defensibility, cross-portfolio synergies, and exit-readiness.
- Escalating complexity: As the number of jurisdictions multiplies, managing IP without standard governance drains fund bandwidth and leads to value erosion.
One Global Partner
Once your IP strategy is defined, execution shouldn’t get bogged down across separate firms. We act as your single worldwide partner managing all filings, prosecutions, and maintenance with complete accountability.
Streamlined IP Strategy
A clear IP strategy eliminates guesswork and wasted spend. By aligning protection directly with commercial roadmaps across your portfolio, we enable a disciplined, cost-effective execution.
Portfolio Support Services
Keep pace with your expanding portfolio without multiplying administrative overhead. We centralize IP management across all your holdings, replacing fragmented advice with a single, coordinated operational hub.
Preparing for Exit
High-Value Transition
As your investment approaches liquidity, execution speed and certainty are paramount. A well-ordered, defensible IP portfolio reassures buyers, shortens diligence cycles, and ensures the transaction closes cleanly.
Typical risks
- Scattered and outdated IP documentation: Records are fragmented across different teams and files, creating chaos and delays.
- Strategic drift and irrelevant filings: An evolving product line leaves current high-margin revenue drivers unprotected while wasting effort on obsolete legacy tech.
- Unrecorded entity transfers: Assets acquired from contractors, university spin-offs, or earlier company acquisitions were never formally registered under the company’s name.
- Gaps in the chain of title: Incomplete assignment records, missing signatures, or lack of proper invention documentation stall due diligence and trigger indemnity demands.
IP Valuation
Know the true value of your IP before sitting down at the negotiating table. We quantify the commercial impact, defensibility, and replacement value of your proprietary assets, ensuring you don’t leave money on the table.
Centralized IP Management
Transitioning ownership shouldn’t stall the closing process. Centrally managing your company’s entire IP footprint provides total visibility across every asset and ensures fast, clean transfers across all relevant registries.
Exit Negotiation Support
Don’t let curveball questions from buyer counsel stall deal momentum or chip away at your valuation. We step in alongside your deal team to provide clear, defensible answers that resolve technical IP scrutiny fast.
Moosedog helps you with
Global IP Registrations
Protect proprietary tech across international jurisdictions without administrative drag. We handle multi-market filings, prosecution, and registration with clear timelines, transparent communication, and predictable pricing.
Proactive Portfolio Management
Gain complete visibility over your assets and critical milestones from a single source. We track maintenance deadlines, filing windows, and registration statuses across all jurisdictions so nothing slips through the cracks.
Due Diligence and Valuation
Verify the tech before committing capital. We evaluate patent validity, test legal enforceability, and benchmark competitive defensibility to ensure target companies genuinely justify their valuation.
Actionable IP Strategy
Build an IP moat that directly supports revenue and funding rounds. We define exactly what, where, and when to protect based on your target, executing every filing with disciplined precision.
Robust IP Enforcement
We act as your frontline and shield between you and the infringer. If third parties infringe on your tech or branding, we execute swift, targeted actions to shut down the violation, preserve your margins, and protect your company’s valuation.
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Vendor profile
Expert Partner: Moosedog Oy
Coverage: Global
Expertise: Patents, Trademarks, Designs & IP Strategy
Key Contact: Dr. Janne Aaltonen, CEO
About the Firm
Established in 2007, Moosedog Oy is a premier consulting firm specializing in innovation protection. Driven by a team of expert patent and trademark attorneys, they demystify the complex world of global IP protection for growing technology firms, manufacturers, and borderless corporate brands.
Key Statistics & Trust Metrics
- Financial Health: €4.6M Revenue (2024)
- Network: Aalbun Founding Partner
- Industry Class: IP Management & Consulting
How They Help Us
- Patent, Trademark and Design registrations for new products and global rebrands.
- Strategic IP mapping and international patent filing.
- Advising on the global commercialization of new intellectual property.
Why We Partner With Moosedog
We partner with Moosedog because they mirror our location-independent approach to business. Through their foundational role in the international Aalbun network, Moosedog provides us with seamless, scalable intellectual property protection across multiple international jurisdictions. They strip away the traditional friction of cross-border legal work, allowing us to secure, protect, and manage our IP assets cost-efficiently, no matter where in the world our teams are operating.
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