Andreas Stroe

Andreas Stroe is the co-founder of Patent Watch, an artificial intelligence-powered intellectual property management platform based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to launching his current venture, he worked as a technology researcher at Philips, gaining extensive corporate experience in research and development intelligence. In 2025, he partnered with co-founder Alexander Stroe to establish Patent Watch, which subsequently secured institutional backing from the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator. The legal technology enterprise currently operates with a core team of four employees, building proprietary software designed to reduce corporate patent infringement detection timelines from several months to approximately twenty minutes. His professional background effectively combines corporate research methodologies with early-stage enterprise legal software development. Stroe's current operational focus centers on leveraging artificial intelligence to help organizations monitor complex patent landscapes and actively monetize their intellectual property portfolios.