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Learning your IP lesson

First published on August 15, 2024

Founder of SnapDragon Monitoring, Rachel was thrown into the world of brand protection when her own invention was counterfeited, just as it reached its 50th export territory. Horrified, she learned how to remove counterfeit products from online platforms using intellectual property and resolved to build software to empower even the smallest brand to fight back, raising just under £4m to do so to build bespoke tech and an international team in Edinburgh.

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