CopperPilot Raises $390,000 — Startup Funding India, October 2026

AI hardware startup CopperPilot has raised $390,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Neon Fund, with participation from US-based angel investors. The round, announced on 27 October 2026, backs a simple idea in startup funding in India: if AI coding agents changed how software gets built, hardware design deserves the same leap.

What CopperPilot builds

CopperPilot, founded in October 2025 by Aditya NG, Mohit Bagur and Anish Harsha, is an AI design agent for electronics hardware. It aims to automate electronics design, including component selection, schematic creation and circuit board routing, converting plain-language descriptions into manufacturing-ready circuit board designs.

The platform works with engineering tools such as KiCad, with support for Altium and LTspice, and integrates with AI coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Alongside the fundraise, the startup announced the launch of the first version of its design agent, codenamed Epsilon, for hardware engineers.

Early signals

The company said its weekly active users have grown 25-fold since August 2026, with more than 6,000 design tasks, or artefacts, run on the platform to date. The fresh capital will fund product research and engineering to improve the agent's speed, reliability and design capabilities, and the startup plans to expand its engineering team in the coming months.

Neon Fund managing partner Siddhartha Ahluwalia said hardware has been left behind, still slowed by datasheets, manual layout and costly re-spins, while AI coding agents changed how software gets built. CopperPilot, he said, already turns a plain-English idea into a manufacturing-ready design.

Hardware founders know the painful loop well: one layout mistake means another fabrication cycle, another delay and another bill. An agent that shortens that loop, even modestly, can change how fast small hardware teams ship.