# Samir Raiyani

> Samir Raiyani is the CEO and founder of IP Author, a Fremont, California legal-technology company using generative AI and large language models to automate patent drafting, office-action responses, prior-art search and evidence-of-use analysis for patent attorneys and corporate IP teams. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and serial entrepreneur, he previously founded and ran Dolcera, one of the world's largest patent-analytics firms, was a Director at SAP Research in Palo Alto, and founded the healthcare startup MediSpark. With more than a dozen patent applications to his name, Raiyani has spent two decades at the intersection of intellectual property and software, and now positions IP Author as a human-centered AI co-pilot that cuts patent drafting time by 40-60% while keeping the attorney in control.

- **Role:** CEO and Founder at IP Author
- **Organizations:** IP Author, Dolcera, SAP Research, MediSpark (iScribe), Vogel Privacy
- **From:** Gujarat, India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** MS, Computer Science, Stanford University, BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering, L.D. College of Engineering / Gujarat University
- **Known for:** Founder and CEO of IP Author, an AI patent-drafting platform used by 1,000+ patent professionals across the US, Europe and Asia, Founder and CEO of Dolcera, one of the world's largest patent-analytics firms with Fortune 500 clients, Director at SAP Research, Palo Alto

## Career timeline

- **1996** — Graduates from L.D. College of Engineering with a degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering
- **2000s** — Earns an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University
- **2000s** — Founds MediSpark, a healthcare startup later acquired by iScribe Inc.
- **2000s** — Serves as Director at SAP Research in Palo Alto, working on service-oriented and Web 2.0 enterprise architectures
- **2007** — Founds Dolcera, which grows into one of the world's largest patent-analytics and knowledge-services firms serving Fortune 500 clients
- **2023** — Launches IP Author to automate AI-assisted patent drafting and prosecution
- **2025-11** — IP Author raises funding from eLab Ventures and Illuminate Ventures to expand research, engineering and customer success teams

## Achievements

- Founder and CEO of IP Author, an AI patent-drafting platform used by 1,000+ patent professionals across the US, Europe and Asia
- Founder and CEO of Dolcera, one of the world's largest patent-analytics firms with Fortune 500 clients
- Director at SAP Research, Palo Alto
- Named inventor on more than a dozen patent applications in software engineering and business methods
- Holds a granted patent stemming from PhD research on software-defined-network (SDN) based multi-radio access technology
- Raised a reported $3.12M total funding for IP Author from investors including eLab Ventures and Illuminate Ventures

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — IP Author announced new funding from eLab Ventures and Illuminate Ventures to scale its research, engineering and customer-success operations across the US and Europe.
- **2024** — IP Author shipped agentic AI patent-drafting capabilities and released free patent-drafting tooling, with Raiyani publicly demonstrating new versions on LinkedIn.

## Links

- Website: https://ipauthor.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raiyani/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cfCAkwFvc0

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Last updated: 2026-06-21