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Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse


How a Harvard Law grad turned YC founder raised $48M to fight brand abuse in the AI era

When Mark Lee was a law student at Harvard, a trademark class exposed him to the staggering scale of counterfeiting, an illicit industry worth more than$3 trillion annually, and set him on an unexpected path to entrepreneurship. The rise of large language models has reframed its positioning from a “software company with humans in the loop” to a leader in the emerging AI-led services space, drawing strong competition in its latest funding round. Today, many clients report a roughly 5% boost in sales, making the platform valuable not just to legal teams but also to go-to-market organizations tracking revenue impact, according to Lee.

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