# Garden

> Garden is a New York applied AI company founded in 2023 by Adi Sidapara and Justin Mack. It develops patent search, claim analysis and portfolio intelligence for IP professionals. A February 2026 merger valued Garden at $150 million and made it the technology engine of SIM IP, an intellectual property investment and monetization business.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Adi Sidapara (Co-founder and CEO), Justin Mack (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Patentbreaker, Patent intelligence platform, SPADE, BLOOM, SIM IP technology engine
- **Notable:** Raised a $6.8 million seed round in August 2024., Released SPADE in 2025 and published BLOOM chemical-search research later that year., Closed a merger announced February 2026 valuing Garden at $150 million.

## Products & services

- **Patentbreaker** — Early prior art search product that automates claim chart generation for inter partes reviews.
- **Patent intelligence platform** — AI-assisted prior art retrieval, infringement analysis, portfolio assessment, freedom-to-operate research, patent chat and targeted prosecution.
- **SPADE** — Search Platform for Art Discovery and Extraction; Garden describes an algorithm for searching large quantities of patents and exploring decision paths for prior art retrieval.
- **BLOOM** — Branching Lookup Optimized for Organic Molecules; chemical-structure search research for patent intelligence.
- **SIM IP technology engine** — Following the merger, Garden supplies AI infrastructure for the combined IP investment and monetization operation.

## Achievements

- Raised a $6.8 million seed round in August 2024.
- Released SPADE in 2025 and published BLOOM chemical-search research later that year.
- Closed a merger announced February 2026 valuing Garden at $150 million.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — ip fray reported on Project Agatha, an AI representation of Erich Spangenberg’s IP dealmaking knowledge, and credited Sidapara with the idea.
- **2026-02** — Garden and SIM IP announced a closed merger valuing Garden at $150 million; the combined operation uses the SIM IP brand.
- **2025-08** — Garden’s public site data dates its BLOOM organic-molecule search research to August 6, 2025.
- **2025-05** — Garden’s public site data dates its SPADE announcement to May 2, 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://www.gardenintel.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/garden-intelligence/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/garden_intel

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Last updated: 2026-10-24