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# CopperPilot raises $390K for an AI agent that turns plain English into circuit board designs

*Neon Fund led the pre-seed round as the Bengaluru and Houston startup opened Epsilon, the first version of its hardware design agent, to engineers.*

By bharat.digital desk. Startup, Startups & Fintech. Published 2026-11-01T12:25:00+05:30. 1 min read.

![CopperPilot raises $390K for an AI agent that turns plain English into circuit board designs](https://bharat.digital/img/originals/copperpilot-390k-pre-seed-neon-fund-ai-pcb-design-agent-auto-86091a78-hero.webp)

## At a glance

- Company: CopperPilot
- What it does: AI design agent that automates PCB component selection, schematics and routing
- Based in: Bengaluru
- Latest: Raised $390K Pre-Seed
- Date: 2026-10-27
- Founders: Aditya NG, Mohit Bagur, Anish Harsha

CopperPilot, a startup building an AI agent for electronics hardware design, has raised $390,000 in a pre-seed round led by Neon Fund, with US-based angel investors joining. Alongside the round, announced on October 27, it opened version 1 of its design agent, codenamed Epsilon, to hardware engineers.

The agent takes a plain-language description of a board and works toward a manufacturing-ready design: reading datasheets, selecting components, drawing schematics, placing and routing the board and checking its own output for electrical and design-rule errors. Rather than asking engineers to move to a new tool, it works inside the ones they already use. It supports KiCad, Altium and LTspice, and plugs into AI coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

The company was founded in October 2025 by Aditya NG, who is CEO, Anish Harsha, who is COO, and Mohit Bagur, who runs business operations. EE Times reports that it has dual headquarters in Bengaluru and Houston. CopperPilot says weekly active users have grown 25 times since August 2026 and that more than 6,000 design tasks have run on the platform, with paying customers in the US, the UK and Europe. It has not disclosed revenue or how many users pay.

It sells on a software subscription model, with a free starter tier, paid individual plans and team and enterprise plans. The new money will go into product research and engineering to make the agent faster and more reliable, and into hiring engineers. Neon Fund, whose third fund of $25 Mn backs AI-led B2B software, counts CloudSEK, SpotDraft and Astra Security in its portfolio.

## Sources

1. [ETEntrepreneur: CopperPilot raises $390K pre-seed funding led by Neon Fund](https://entrepreneur.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/funding/copperpilot-raises-390k-pre-seed-funding-led-by-neon-fund/135227152)
2. [EE Times: CopperPilot Raises Pre-seed to Develop AI Agent for PCB Design](https://www.eetimes.com/copperpilot-raises-pre-seed-to-develop-ai-agent-for-pcb-design/)
3. [Indian Startup News: CopperPilot, an AI design agent startup for electronics hardware, raises $390,000 in funding](https://indianstartupnews.com/funding/copperpilot-an-ai-design-agent-startup-for-electronics-hardware-raises-390000-in-funding-12771225)
4. [Venture Intelligence: Design agent for electronics hardware CopperPilot raises $390-K led by Neon Fund](https://news.ventureintelligence.com/private-equity/design-agent-for-electronics-hardware-copperpilot-raises-$390-k-led-by-neon-fund)

Written by the bharat.digital desk from the sources above. Figures are as reported by those sources.