
The VETTDD 50 · UK startups · 2026
Tamar Gomez
Co-founder and CEO, Ankar · ankar.ai ↗
Turning an invention into a granted patent still takes years of manual work. Ankar’s chief executive is using AI to shorten it, with L’Oréal among her customers and Atomico behind her
- Series A led by Atomico, December 2025
- $20m
- patent applications its platform searches
- 150 million
- average productivity gain reported by customers
- 40%
- named to Tech Nation’s Future Fifty
- Mar 2026