EnforceShield, a legaltech start-up based in Vilnius, Lithuania, raised €1.7m (about $2m) in a seed round announced in mid-September 2026. Vendep Capital led the round and FIRSTPICK VC participated.
The company builds AI agents that take over most of the work of intellectual property enforcement, from spotting a suspected infringement to filing a takedown and checking that it worked. No valuation was disclosed, and neither the company nor its investors said whether it had raised money before this round.
According to Vestbee, EnforceShield works with more than 20 enterprise customers and removes over 33,500 IP violations a month across its e-commerce client base. Those figures are reported by the company and have not been independently verified.
“EnforceShield is a strong example: a difficult legal workflow, early proof from demanding customers”Artis Bisers, Investment Manager, Vendep Capital
What EnforceShield does
Brands that sell online deal with a steady flow of counterfeit listings, unauthorised sellers, cloned storefronts and fake adverts. Handling each case by hand means finding it, checking it against the brand's trademarks and rules, preparing a takedown in the format each marketplace requires and then watching for the same seller to reappear.
EnforceShield's agents run that cycle continuously. In its investment note, Vendep said the agents detect potential infringements, evaluate them against a brand's rights and enforcement rules, prepare and submit the enforcement action and monitor what happens next, escalating cases when a takedown alone is not enough. Vestbee described the model as "human-at-the-end": legal teams mainly review outcomes, approve actions or take on the complex cases.
The company was founded in 2024 by Rytis Rudzinskas, its chief executive, who worked for years as an IP enforcement attorney before starting it. Aidis Stukas is co-founder and chief technology officer, according to Vendep. The company has not disclosed its headcount.
Who invested
Vendep Capital led the round and published a note explaining why it invested. In its note on the deal, investment manager Artis Bisers pointed to the combination of a hard legal workflow and early traction with demanding customers, and said EnforceShield had already signed sophisticated e-commerce brands before Vendep invested.
FIRSTPICK VC also took part. No other investors were named, and the terms of the round were not disclosed.
What the money is for
EnforceShield said the new capital will expand what its platform can enforce, including workflows for escalations, repeat offenders and more complex cases, according to Vestbee. It will also fund commercial expansion in the United States, which the company said accounts for up to 80% of its sales pipeline.
The company also plans to move beyond e-commerce sellers to other enterprise IP holders, including companies in technology, sports, media and publishing, Vestbee reported. Vendep said the next step was to protect customers across more marketplaces as the product deepens.
A crowded problem for online brands
Vendep framed IP enforcement as a legal workflow that is difficult to automate, which is part of why it backed the company. Investors backing EnforceShield are betting that AI agents can carry more of the routine work, including the legal analysis of each case, while lawyers focus on disputes that need judgement.
For EnforceShield, the test will be whether it can turn a pipeline weighted towards American brands into contracts while widening its agents to cover the harder, repeat cases that simple takedowns do not resolve.
Company website: enforceshield.com