OUR MISSION

We exist to restore balance in the innovation economy by ensuring creators and investors participate in the commercial value generated by IP use, preserving the incentives that make innovation possible.

In this new AI age, competition is accelerating and product cycles are compressing across all IP-intensive industries. Companies need more capital faster than equity valuations can rise.

IP can no longer remain trapped inside a single company, product, or path to market.

IP must become infrastructure.

Cote pioneered IP Capital for this purpose, combining IP-directed capital, flexible milestone-based investment structures, and dedicated IP operations to fund core growth and expand IP adoption and use across markets, industries, platforms, partners, and ecosystems.

We stand with the innovators, dreamers, and creators who dare to build the future.

We are guardians of creation, protecting innovation and ensuring the value it creates is shared with those who bring it into the world.

Innovation is Sacred. Creation is Divine.

OUR FOCUS

Investing in IP as infrastructure

TRANSFORMING

Transforms manufacturing into a high growth, highly profitable business through greater efficiency and effectiveness

SUSTAINABLE

Reduces carbon footprint/greenhouse gas emissions, use of natural resources, and toxic chemicals and their discharge

CIRCULAR

Rejuvenates/recycles post-consumer and post-industrial waste for use in making the same products vs. downgraded uses

WHY IP?

The Asset Class of the AI Age

Why Green?

The opportunity of a lifetime

The
New Gold

WHERE VALUE BEGINS

Scalable IP is the foundation of enterprise value in the AI age. As AI accelerates discovery, design, manufacturing, and deployment, the most valuable companies will be built on protected technologies that scale across products, partners, markets, industries, and entire innovation ecosystems. IP Capital turns this foundation into growth infrastructure.

In Every Industry

in every industry

From healthcare, food, and energy to manufacturing, robotics, materials, and AI infrastructure, every industry is being reshaped by AI-accelerated innovation. Cote helps companies scale their chosen growth path while opening additional pathways for IP adoption, revenue, and impact.

DRIVING 
THE FUTURE 

driving the future

The future depends on funding, protecting, and scaling the technologies transforming the physical world. IP Capital gives innovators a third path beyond traditional equity and debt, designed to fund growth, expand adoption, generate returns from IP use, and ensure creators and investors participate in the value their IP creates across the ecosystem.

OUR MODEL

Inside the Engine of the
New IP Economy

IP capital

Through a platform of IP Operating Companies (IPCOs), we invest IP-directed capital to fund the company's chosen growth plan, protect the IP foundation, and expand IP adoption and use. Capital supports licensing, partnerships, joint ventures, and market expansion, and is deployed through milestone-based structures, including equity participation, with revenue royalties triggered as milestones are met.

IP RETURNS

Each IPCO is structured to generate returns from IP use and adoption, including equity upside, recurring royalties from IP use, QSBS tax advantages, and long-term compounding value. For founders, IP Capital is less dilutive than equity and more flexible than debt. For investors, it creates returns tied to real commercial adoption, with optionality beyond a single path for growth.

IP OPERATIONS

Each IPCO includes a dedicated IP operations team that strengthens, protects, and expands the reach of a company’s IP foundation. The team supports IP strategy, commercialization, licensing, partnerships, enforcement readiness, and market expansion, turning IP into scalable infrastructure for growth. The AI age cannot be built on AI infrastructure alone. It needs IP infrastructure.   

ScalING

 We help IP-driven companies fund growth, scale IP-driven products and revenues, and expand adoption across new markets, industries, partners, and ecosystems. Capital is deployed against defined milestones so companies can scale their chosen path while opening additional pathways for IP adoption and use.

ProtectING

We strengthen each company’s IP foundation with layered legal, technical, contractual, and commercial strategies. This includes patents, trade secrets, data rights, licensing controls, enforcement readiness, and other safeguards designed to protect value as IP adoption expands.

MONETIZinG

We unlock additional pathways to value through licensing, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, royalties, equity interests, and profit participation tied to IP use and adoption. The goal is to convert protected innovation into recurring revenue, enterprise value, and long-term returns beyond a single product, market, or business plan.

Guardians of Creation.
Architects of IP Capital.