We create, incubate, and commercialize impactful inventions Led by avid inventor and visionary Nathan Myhrvold, our spinout companies have the power to transform industries At the edge of technological advances to serve global markets, we work with the world’s top inventors to push innovation forward Welcome to Intellectual Ventures

Deep Learning The Autoscope relies on deep learning to detect the malaria parasite from blood films on glass microscope slides, just one of our impactful inventions

We aren't afraid of impossible ideas.

Invention at Work Through our Invention Science Fund, we’ve launched more than 15 new companies

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Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Hello World” Meets Nathan Myhrvold

Intellectual Ventures founder and CEO Nathan Myhrvold gave Bloomberg journalist Ashlee Vance a tour of IV’s offices and lab while the two discussed global warming, patents, supersonic dinosaur tails, snowflake microscopy, pizza scanners, and more

From entrepreneurs to technologists and everyone in between, our people embody the power of innovation through collaboration and creative freedom

To see where we’re headed, take a look back at the last two decades of radical innovation and impactful invention