For inventors
Your invention deserves a commercial reading, not a shelf.
IPMeld assesses early-stage technology properly: what problem it solves, who owns it, what evidence exists, and what it would take to make an industrial buyer say yes.
Who can submit
We are interested in the work, not the letterhead
A well-evidenced final-year project can be more commercially useful than a funded programme that never left the bench.
Students
Undergraduate, master's and doctoral projects, including work that has already been marked and shelved.
Researchers
Post-doctoral and staff researchers with results that outgrew the original grant.
Independent inventors
People solving a problem they have lived with, outside any institution.
Engineers
Practitioners who have designed a better method on the job and want it used properly.
Technical founders
Early companies with strong technology and no commercial route into industry.
Multidisciplinary teams
Groups whose combined output is stronger than any single component.
What you get
Seven concrete benefits
IPMeld earns nothing from your submission itself. We invest work in assessment because assembled, validated technology is what industry will actually license.
Structured commercial assessment
An honest read on whether industry would buy this, and what stands in the way.
Ownership-documentation support
Help identifying every contributor and the institutional positions that apply.
Technical and market feedback
Written comments from independent reviewers with sector experience.
Access to complementary technologies
Your component may only become sellable alongside two or three others.
Validation and pilot opportunities
Routes to independent testing and to real industrial trial sites.
Industry introductions
Controlled introductions to companies with a stated, matching problem.
Potential licensing income or spin-out participation
Where a licence or new company results, a written participation position agreed in advance. Outcomes are never guaranteed.
Before you submit
Public disclosure may affect patent protection
Public disclosure may affect the availability of patent protection in some countries. Do not publish, demonstrate or upload sensitive technical information publicly before obtaining appropriate professional advice.
How confidentiality actually works here
Confidentiality is governed by the applicable platform terms and any separately executed agreement between you and IPMeld. Starting a submission does not, by itself, put a non-disclosure agreement in place.
Our submission form is staged for exactly this reason. Early steps ask only what is needed to assess relevance. You are prompted before any step that invites sensitive technical detail or file uploads, and you can save a draft and take advice before continuing.
If you would prefer a signed agreement before disclosing anything, say so in your first message and we will discuss it.
Tell us the problem you were trying to solve.
That single sentence tells us more about commercial potential than a full specification. Everything else can follow.