Founders / James Stonehill
James Stonehill
James Stonehill is a co-founder of Clerq (formerly NLPatent), a legal AI company based in Toronto. James Stonehill co-founded Clerq (formerly NLPatent) with Stephanie Curcio. Clerq (formerly NLPatent) raised a US$3M venture round in September 2025 led by Draper Associates and Mighty Capital.
Co-founder of Clerq (formerly NLPatent).
Clerq (formerly NLPatent)
Agentic prior art research and semantic patent search for IP professionals.
- Role
- Co-founder
- HQ
- Toronto, ON
- Founded
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- US$3M
- Latest round
- Venture round, Sep 2025
- Website
- clerq-ip.com
Co-founders: Stephanie Curcio
Investors: Draper Associates, Mighty Capital, The LegalTech Fund, Storytime Capital, The51
Founders are listed as named in primary coverage of their companies. Profile links are matched to the company before they are published. To correct this page or ask for it to be removed, email the Index.
Data as of November 10, 2026.