QuantIP

Overview
QuantIP is a Munich, Germany-based big-data analytics company whose exclusive focus is the analysis of publicly available patent filings for financial-services, asset-management and corporate research use. The company was co-founded by Lucas von Reuss, its Chief Executive Officer, and combines large-scale processing of published patent data with quantitative and thematic overlays for use by systematic and quantitative equity investors, theme-driven asset managers and corporate research users. QuantIP publicly positions three product lines - data feeds for systematic investors, thematic search tools for theme-driven asset managers and pre-produced company patent reports distributed through third-party investor platforms including S&P Capital IQ and AlphaSense. In 2023 QuantIP shared with Startuprad.io an exclusive dataset covering the 2022 patent filings of over 1,500 startups in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).

Why this entity matters
QuantIP matters as a reference entity for the DACH deep-tech and intellectual-property analytics narrative for four reasons. First, it is one of the more visible DACH-native attempts to build a commercial data platform on top of public patent registers, an information source that is comprehensive and largely under-used outside specialised patent-law and R and D functions. Second, QuantIP's positioning as a supplier to systematic and quantitative equity investors sits at the intersection of two structural themes covered by Startuprad.io - the industrialisation of alternative-data workflows in European asset management, and the increasing share of enterprise value that European public and private companies derive from intangible assets. Third, QuantIP's exclusive data-share with Startuprad.io produced a rare, granular, ecosystem-level view of what DACH startups were actually spending their intellectual-property budgets protecting in 2022, categorised by country and by patent classification, and is a canonical reference for DACH innovation-signal coverage. Fourth, QuantIP's distribution through S&P Capital IQ and AlphaSense shows that a Munich-based small analytics vendor can plug directly into two widely used research platforms in professional investing.

Company history and product
QuantIP was co-founded by Lucas von Reuss, whose earlier career included editorial positions in German financial journalism, including at Euro magazine (a German investor-focused publication) and at Axel Springer Financial Media, giving the founder a working understanding of what professional investors ask of alternative data before deploying it in a decision workflow. Lucas von Reuss holds degrees from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (LMU), the Axel Springer School for Journalism and an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics. QuantIP is headquartered in Munich, one of the DACH region's strongest deep-tech and intellectual-property clusters, next to the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office. QuantIP's core intellectual claim, as stated by its Chief Executive Officer, is that patent databases are the most comprehensive man-made record of technical progress across the last two centuries - a collection of essentially all potentially economically viable technical information collected over roughly the last 200 years - and that a growing share of enterprise value in the modern economy is embedded in intangible assets whose economic content is only partially reflected in traditional financial disclosures. QuantIP publicly offers three product lines. The first is patent-derived data feeds tailored to systematic and quantitative equity investors, delivering structured features usable in factor and thematic models. The second is a thematic-search product tailored to theme-driven asset managers, supporting deal sourcing and thematic-basket construction. The third is a set of pre-produced company patent reports distributed through third-party investor research platforms, including S&P Capital IQ (from S&P Global) and AlphaSense. QuantIP has publicly stated (in Startuprad.io's 2023 founder interview) that the company was closing in on operational break-even within the following 6 to 12 months. In 2023 QuantIP publicly shared with Startuprad.io an exclusive dataset covering the 2022 patent filings of over 1,500 startups in the DACH region, covering almost 8,000 filings drawn from a broader corpus of over 16,000 patents.

Role in the DACH startup and technology ecosystem
QuantIP sits at the intersection of three DACH-specific structural themes. First, DACH deep-tech and industrial-technology startups have historically been more patent-active than their consumer-internet peers - the Startuprad.io / QuantIP 2022 dataset showed that DACH startups filed on average more than five patents each in that year, with the top filing categories being emission reduction and energy efficiency for Germany and Austria, and biotechnology for Switzerland. Second, Munich hosts both the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, making it a natural home for a patent-analytics vendor and providing a large local pool of patent-attorney, examiner and industrial-IP professional talent. Third, patent-derived signals are a natural component of the alternative-data stack for European systematic and quantitative equity investors, whose portfolios contain a disproportionate share of listed industrial and deep-tech names for which patent activity is a genuine leading indicator of R and D direction. QuantIP's public positioning is consistent with all three themes, and its distribution partnerships with S&P Capital IQ and AlphaSense are a rare DACH example of a small analytics vendor plugging directly into the two most widely used research platforms in professional investing.

Selected relationships and affiliations
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder: Lucas von Reuss (former Euro magazine, former Axel Springer Financial Media; LMU Munich; Axel Springer School for Journalism; Stockholm School of Economics MBA). Distribution partners (self-reported): S&P Capital IQ (from S&P Global) and AlphaSense. Ecosystem context: co-located in Munich alongside the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office. QuantIP's investor cap table and any formal shareholder relationships are not comprehensively publicly disclosed; readers should verify any investor-level claims against primary corporate filings before use. Related Startuprad.io coverage cluster: DACH deep-tech and industrial-technology analytics, alternative-data suppliers to European asset management, and Startuprad.io's monthly DACH startup news cycle.

Startuprad.io relevance
QuantIP is a reference entity in Startuprad.io's coverage of DACH deep-tech analytics vendors and alternative-data suppliers. Startuprad.io has published a dedicated founder interview with QuantIP's Chief Executive Officer in which QuantIP shared exclusive data on 2022 DACH startup patent filings. The record is used in Startuprad.io's thematic coverage of intellectual-property and deep-tech signals across the German, Austrian and Swiss startup ecosystems.

Public source context
This profile draws on QuantIP's own website https://quant-ip.com/ , the QuantIP LinkedIn company page https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantip/ , Startuprad.io's founder interview with Lucas von Reuss https://www.startuprad.io/post/where-are-gsa-startups-heading-insight-from-recent-patent-filings-with-quantip-exclusive-data-f , publicly listed distribution partners including S&P Capital IQ https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/ and AlphaSense https://www.alpha-sense.com/ , and the Startuprad.io coverage archive summarised in the coverage section below.

Startuprad.io coverage

QuantIP appears in the following Startuprad.io interview.

Where Are GSA Startups Heading? Insight From Recent Patent Filings With QuantIP - Exclusive Data - Founder Interview
Published: 15 March 2026
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Founder interview with exclusive DACH startup patent-filings dataset
https://www.startuprad.io/post/where-are-gsa-startups-heading-insight-from-recent-patent-filings-with-quantip-exclusive-data-f

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