Lithuanian legaltech EnforceShield secures €1.7M for automated IP enforcement

Lithuanian legaltech startup EnforceShield has picked up €1.7 million in seed funding to push harder on automated intellectual property enforcement. Vendep Capital led the round, with FIRSTPICK VC also in. The company was founded in 2024 by attorney Rytis Rudzinskas.

EnforceShield’s pitch is simple enough: stop treating online IP abuse like a pile of tickets for humans to triage one by one. Its SaaS platform looks for counterfeit products, unauthorised sellers, fake listings, cloned storefronts, impersonation sites and phishing pages, then runs the enforcement workflow from detection and legal analysis through validation, takedown execution, monitoring and escalation.

The twist is that the platform is not just surfacing suspects for a legal team to review. EnforceShield says it uses AI agents plus built-in legal and platform-specific logic to decide whether a case should move ahead and to carry out the enforcement steps. It checks a company’s IP portfolio, the evidence available, applicable laws, platform context and enforcement criteria before starting a takedown. Lawyers and analysts are still in the loop, but mainly for exceptions and more complex cases.

That matters because the company thinks the volume problem is getting worse. It points to generative AI as a driver of faster counterfeit listings, cloned websites and similar abuse at scale, while enforcement has stayed heavily human. EnforceShield says it now serves more than 20 enterprise customers and removes an average of more than 33,500 IP violations each month across its e-commerce customer base. The new money will go into more technical and product work, including handling repeat offenders and escalations, and into commercial expansion in the US and a wider play across the IP lifecycle.