Patsnap vs Cropin

Patsnap has a disclosed valuation of $1B, while Cropin's valuation is not publicly available, making a direct size comparison difficult. Patsnap employs 500-1000 people.

Patsnap has raised more in total funding at $300M, compared to Cropin's $110M — a gap of $190M. Combined, the two companies have completed 2 known funding rounds.

Patsnap leads with an Awaira Score of 80/100, while Cropin sits at 70/100. That 10-point gap reflects real differences in funding, scale, and traction — it's not a vanity metric.

Patsnap was founded by Jeffrey Tiong in 2007. Cropin was founded by Krishna Kumar in 2010. Visit each company's profile on Awaira for a full founder biography.

Patsnap: Patsnap provides an AI-powered patent analytics and intellectual property intelligence platform that enables R&D teams, IP lawyers, and corporate strategy teams to search, analyse, and monitor global patent databases using machine learning to surface technology trends, competitor patent activity, and freedom-to-operate insights from over 170 million patent documents. The Singapore company integrates patent data with scientific literature and chemical structure databases to provide a comprehensive IP and technology intelligence environment.\n\nThe company raised approximately $300 million including a Series E round from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, and CPE Yunji, reaching a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Patsnap serves over 10,000 companies globally including R&D-intensive organisations in pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, automotive, and consumer electronics that use patent landscape analysis to inform technology strategy and investment decisions.\n\nPatsnap competes in the IP analytics market against Derwent Advancement (Clarivate), Questel Orbit, and Minesoft, as well as general enterprise search platforms that include patent data. Its AI capabilities for patent claim analysis, technology trend extraction, and cross-domain IP search differentiate it from traditional Boolean-search patent databases, enabling R&D strategy questions to be answered through AI-assisted analysis rather than manual patent review. The Singapore base provides access to both the Southeast Asian technology market and a sophisticated legal and financial services market for IP monetisation and licensing analytics. Cropin: Cropin is a digital agriculture and crop intelligence platform that collects, processes, and analyzes data from satellite imagery, weather systems, IoT sensors, and farm management records to generate AI-powered crop performance analytics and risk assessments for agribusinesses, food companies, governments, and financial institutions with agricultural exposure. The platform enables enterprise-level visibility into crop production, supply chain traceability, and climate risk across large farmer networks.\n\nThe company raised approximately $110M in funding from investors including Google, ABC World Asia, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and has built a platform covering tens of millions of acres of farmland across 60 countries. Cropin's satellite-based crop monitoring capabilities are used by multinational food companies to track sustainability commitments and supply chain traceability requirements.\n\nCropin occupies a unique position as a global agri-intelligence platform with deep roots in India and emerging market agriculture. The combination of Google investment and Gates Foundation support signals both commercial and development impact relevance, and the company's scale of farmland coverage creates a satellite and AI training data advantage that will be difficult for new entrants to replicate.

Patsnap got there first, launching in 2007 — that's 3 years of extra runway. Cropin didn't arrive until 2010. In AI, that kind of head start means more training data, deeper customer relationships, and a bigger talent moat.

Patsnap has about 500-1000 employees; Cropin has about 200-500. A bigger team usually means more revenue or heavier VC backing, but in AI, small teams can build at massive scale.

Yes — they're direct rivals. Both Patsnap and Cropin compete in AI Data, targeting many of the same buyers. If you're evaluating one, you should be looking at the other.