Gautham (Gau) Bodepudi

Co-Founder & Managing Member
IP Edge, LLC

Gautham (Gau) Bodepudi has twenty years of experience in patents, spanning the full lifecycle from mining and evaluating portfolios to structuring large and complex patent transactions. He has written extensively on patent policy and innovation economics, helping shape modern perspectives on IP monetization.

As co-founder and Managing Member of IP EDGE LLC, he leads one of the most active patent-transaction platforms in the United States. With one of the largest proprietary datasets in the sector, the firm is pioneering the evolution of patents from a niche specialization into an institutional-grade asset class and is enhancing the industry’s first vertically integrated platform unifying diligence, licensing, litigation support, financing, and commercialization.