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# EnforceShield Raises €1.7M to Automate Enterprise IP Enforcement
- URL: https://www.therecursive.com/enforceshield-raises-eur1-7m-to-become-the-autonomous-enforcement-layer-for-enterprise-ip/
- Published: 2026-09-15T08:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T08:11:43.000Z
- Description: Vilnius-based EnforceShield raised €1.7M led by Vendep Capital to scale its autonomous, attorney-built platform for removing IP violations at enterprise scale.
- Author: The Recursive
- Tags: CEE, Deals, EnforceShield, News

👯 **Founder(s):** Rytis Rudzinskas (CEO & founder); Aidis Stukas (CTO)

📅 **Founding year:** 2024 

🏭 **Industry:** Legaltech / AI — intellectual property (IP) enforcement

💥 **Problem:** AI has made IP abuse — counterfeits, unauthorized sellers, fake listings, cloned storefronts, impersonation ads — scale explosively, while human-led enforcement teams can only scale linearly by adding lawyers and analysts. Detection-only tools leave the actual enforcement work undone.

📣 **Solution:** An autonomous, attorney-built SaaS platform that executes the full enforcement workflow — cross-platform detection, legal analysis, validation, takedown, monitoring and escalation — rather than acting as a co-pilot. Its AI agents make case-level decisions using built-in, jurisdiction-specific legal logic.

👥 **Customers:** 20+ enterprise customers, primarily e-commerce/D2C brands, multi-brand portfolios and companies facing recurring IP abuse. Named clients on their site include Moerie, Pulsetto, Bioma and ColonBroom.

🎳 **Team size:** 11-50

🌱 **Stage:** Seed

💰 **Investment amount:** €1.7M ($1.96M)

🚀 **Funded by:** Vendep Capital (lead), with participation from FIRSTPICK VC

> 👁️‍🗨️ **Investor's perspective:** *"AI has made turning service businesses into software into a massive opportunity, and legal services are ripe for this shift. Finding counterfeits was never the hard part for brands. The value lies in everything that happens after discovery, and EnforceShield handles that whole process in one system rather than stopping at detection. Rytis worked on this problem himself for years before building the company, which is precisely the expertise needed to automate it properly."* — Artis Bisers, Investment Manager, Vendep Capital

💡 **It will be spent on…** growing technical and product capacity to automate the next layer of enforcement — extending its AI agents beyond standardized takedowns to escalation, repeat offenders and more complex pathways — and on commercial expansion in the US, which already accounts for up to 80% of its sales pipeline.

> 💬 **In their own words:** *"When I founded this company, I felt we were already operating on borrowed time. Generative AI had made IP abuse a booming business, but enforcement was still largely a human-scale operation. Enterprises didn't need more lawyers or even a software co-pilot. They needed tech that's able to think like a lawyer and pilot itself through enforcement workflows."* — Rytis Rudzinskas, CEO & founder

💪 **Their specialty:** A "human-at-the-end" model — AI agents handle routine cases end to end, and human attorneys/analysts only approve outcomes or handle flagged exceptions and complex escalations. This decouples enforcement volume from headcount and enables same-day onboarding: the platform ingests minimal data and starts surfacing infringements clients often didn't even notice. On average it removes 33,500+ IP violations per month.

🔑 **Business model:** SaaS subscription — continuous, autonomous enforcement sold to enterprises (enterprise licensing rather than per-case fees).

💸 **Funding so far:** €1.7M