Governance, Standards, and Trust for the IP Capital Market
The IPX Foundation is a nonprofit standards body supporting the structured commercialization and financialization of intellectual property. It governs legal frameworks, technical standards, and institutional coordination across the innovation and financial ecosystems.
Advancing IP for Open Capital Impact
Mission.
The IPX Foundation is a nonprofit membership organization, formed to govern the legal, technical, and educational standards that enable the global commercialization and financialization of intellectual property.
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Its mission is to foster trust, interoperability, and equitable access to capital markets across the innovation economy—ensuring that inventors, universities, SMEs, and global corporations can participate on equal footing.
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By establishing structured pathways from invention to capital formation, the Foundation accelerates the global cycles of innovation, investment, and shared prosperity.
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The Foundation develops and maintains the governance and legal frameworks of the emerging Financial Market Infrastructure for Intellectual Property (FMI-IP), oversees dispute-resolution and compliance systems, and coordinates multilateral engagement across policy, finance, research, and industry.
Bridging Innovation and Capital at Global Scale.
Intellectual property is the most under-leveraged asset class in the global economy. More than $20 trillion in patented and technical innovation exists worldwide, yet most remains inaccessible to capital markets—unpriced, under-commercialized, and disconnected from productive growth.
The IPX Foundation exists to unify the innovation and financial ecosystems through shared governance, standardized processes, and legally robust infrastructure. Its work connects researchers, institutions, investors, and market intermediaries within a coordinated framework for global IP liquidity.
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The goal is not only to enable functional markets for IP, but to democratize access to innovation capital—creating a system where university researchers and sovereign funds alike can participate under aligned standards, driving scalable innovation, equitable growth, and global inclusion.
In Foundational Phase — By Design.
The IPX Foundation is entering its Foundational Phase, structured to ensure readiness for institutional engagement and long-term governance stability. Operating under the authority of its Founding President, H. Mark Meijer, and the oversight of an Interim Board reflective of this preparatory stage, the Foundation serves as the neutral steward of the Financial Market Infrastructure for Intellectual Property (FMI-IP).
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The Interim Board includes expertise in valuation and financial standards, strategic communications within regulated sectors, and advisory insight spanning AI, market-infrastructure, and deep-technology investment domains. Together, these disciplines provide strategic oversight, institutional context, and continuity as the Foundation prepares for its operational phase.
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This controlled phase enables coordinated engagement with capital-markets, regulatory, and sovereign stakeholders while maintaining confidentiality over proprietary system components. During this period:
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Public visibility is intentionally limited to the Foundation and its licensed commercial operator, IPX Holdings Inc., ensuring clarity of structure and public trust.
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Selective institutional dialogues are underway under NDA to align with policy, governance, and capital-formation partners.
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Membership onboarding will commence once alignment milestones and governance readiness thresholds are achieved.
All platform intellectual property—including legal frameworks, systems architectures, and governance protocols—is owned by the Foundation and licensed exclusively to IPX Holdings Inc. under perpetual, mission-aligned terms that safeguard neutrality while enabling professional execution.
Contact.
Institutions with aligned mandates in innovation finance, standards development, legal architecture, or capital-market evolution are invited to engage the Foundation for exploratory dialogue.
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Selected materials—including governance frameworks, architectural documentation, and validation pathways—are available under NDA to qualified entities, such as public agencies, multilateral organizations, financial institutions, and strategic corporate participants.