CopperPilot
Category: AI Agents
CopperPilot is an AI design agent that turns plain-English descriptions into manufacturing-ready electronics and PCB designs, working inside existing EDA tools. CopperPilot was founded in 2025. The company is led by Aditya N G. Based in United States (HQ); engineering hub in Bengaluru, India. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $390K. Latest round: Pre-Seed. Key investors include Neon Fund, US-based angel investors.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- United States (HQ); engineering hub in Bengaluru, India
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $390K
Value proposition
It automates component selection, schematic creation, validation and circuit board routing. The company says this cuts PCB design cycles that typically take 6-15 weeks and cost $7.5K-$30K down to hours. Example: an AI camera board designed in about 30 minutes.
Products and solutions
Epsilon (ε): V1 design agent for electronics, launched October 2026. A bolt-on AI copilot (Ctrl+K) for EDA tools covering research, schematic analysis, component placement, validation, design review and firmware workflows. Supports KiCad, with early support for Altium and LTspice. Plugins for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
Unique value
A bolt-on agent for the EDA tools engineers already use, rather than a new standalone CAD environment. It can also be driven from AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).
Target customer
Hardware and electronics engineers and hardware teams at startups and companies, for example in robotics and autonomous vehicles. Customers are in the US, UK and Europe.
Industries served
Electronic Design Automation (EDA), consumer electronics, robotics, IoT, electric vehicles, renewables, autonomous vehicles
Technology advantage
A domain-specialized agent harness for hardware design. The company reports that, on 341 real KiCad tasks across 49 designs, Epsilon scored 78.0 versus 18.6 for a general-purpose agent running the same LLM on end-to-end board design. It also performs electrical-correctness checking beyond standard design rules. The company has published 30+ open-source KiCad board designs, including an ESP32-S3 micro drone.
How they differentiate
Flux is a browser-based standalone ECAD tool with an AI copilot, and Quilter and DeepPCB focus on autonomous layout and routing. CopperPilot instead plugs into incumbent tools (KiCad, Altium) and AI coding agents, and covers the whole flow from natural-language spec through component selection, schematic, validation and layout.
Main competitors
Flux.ai, Quilter, DeepPCB (also JITX)
Key partnerships
Integrations with KiCad, Altium, LTspice, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Winner of Accel x Anthropic India Dev Day. Finalist at Emergent VibeCon Bengaluru 2026.
Notable customers
Company-reported users include Dexory, Iceberg Engineering and IoTReady. CopperPilot publishes attributed testimonials from their executives or engineers. Paid customer status is not established.
Major milestones
Oct 2025: founded. 2026: won Accel x Anthropic India Dev Day and was a VibeCon Bengaluru finalist. Oct 2026: raised a $390K pre-seed round led by Neon Fund and launched the Epsilon V1 design agent.
Growth metrics
Company-reported: weekly active users grew 25x since August 2026, and more than 6,000 design tasks (artifacts) have been run on the platform. Revenue was not disclosed. There is no independent validation of how the generated designs perform in manufacturing.
Market positioning
An early-stage, pre-seed entrant in AI-for-EDA, positioning itself as the coding-agent equivalent for hardware. It targets the roughly $20.9B EDA software market.
Geographic focus
Global; customers in the US, UK and Europe; engineering in India
About Aditya N G
Spent 3+ years building foundation models for autonomous vehicles at Minus Zero, Bosch and others. Won Accel and Anthropic's India Dev Day with CopperPilot.
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Official website: https://copperpilot.ai