IP Copilot wants to use AI to turn your Slack messages into patentsIP 

Copilot, a startup using artificial intelligence to modernize intellectual property management, announced today it has raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by Salesforce Ventures and Preface Ventures, with participation from NextGen Ventures and Notation.

The Tennessee-based company, founded by AI experts with over 1,000 patents between them, aims, by analyzing internal communications and documents in real time, to streamline how enterprises discover and protect innovative ideas.