Darts-ip: Data for all

Success in any area is often a combination of three things: talent, hard work and perseverance. For software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Darts-ip, all three were needed to grow a pioneering idea from a handful of people to a 300-strong organisation in just 13 years. The talent came in the form of two groups from very different industries. The service they wanted to offer, to make legal research as easy as possible, came from trademark lawyer and Darts-ip founder Jean-Jo Evrard. While working in Brussels and Paris for law firm NautaDutilh, Evrard was frustrated.