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Copilot AI

Vancouver, CA Β· 1 known investors

CoPilot AI provides AI-powered sales agents that automate LinkedIn outbound prospecting, identifying high-fit prospects, sending personalized outreach at scale, and managing follow-up conversations to book meetings. It targets B2B sales teams looking to build a predictable outbound pipeline without relying on manual rep effort.

Also known as CoPilot AI

Founders & leadership

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Jesse ChenFounder

Investors Β· 1

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

CoPilot AI is a Canadian sales-enablement software company whose platform automates outbound prospecting on LinkedIn. Its current product is presented as a team of AI agents: a Strategy Agent that learns the customer's business and market, identifies high-fit buyer segments and recommends an outbound plan and messaging; a Targeting Agent that converts that plan into launch-ready campaigns, building audience segments from LinkedIn Sales Navigator and writing personalized outreach per segment; and a Reply Agent that handles prospect conversations in the user's tone of voice, detects intent, handles objections and books meetings directly on the user's calendar.

The company has been in sales enablement since 2018, after pivoting from a fintech product. Early versions of the technology used AI to classify inbound message replies, distinguishing warm from cold leads so salespeople could prioritize follow-up. The company positions its approach as "humanizing AI" β€” helping users find better-matched prospects, craft more personalized messaging and convert conversations into meetings rather than maximizing message volume. CoPilot AI also built a secondary product, Video by CoPilot AI, for producing personalized videos at scale: users record individual introductions plus a single shared body and conclusion, and the software handles editing, processing, rendering and publishing.

Founding story

Co-founders Jesse Chen and Henry Bee began in 2014 with a fintech company started out of the Launch Academy incubator in Vancouver, building risk management and portfolio optimization tools for investors and selling them through financial advisors. By late 2017 the company's funds were running low, but the founders' work ethic drew the attention of Shafin Tejani of Victory Square Technologies, whose firm shared an office with the incubator; Victory Square invested $1.5 million in late 2017. That capital funded a pivot from fintech to sales-enablement SaaS. The team initially validated the concept before having a product, pitching customers on cheap warm leads relative to advertising and in-person networking costs, and reported reaching $30,000 in monthly recurring revenue within a month.

Business model

Software-as-a-service platform sold to sales professionals and revenue teams, who use the AI agents to run LinkedIn prospecting campaigns end-to-end in place of, or alongside, SDR headcount.

Recurring software subscription revenue; the company reported monthly recurring revenue as its early growth metric and describes pursuing "sustainable growth" in revenue rather than growth at all costs.

Traction

The company states that in 2025 its platform powered 2.1 million connections, a 35% high-intent conversation rate and more than 65,000 high-value meetings. In its first month selling the sales-enablement product it reported going from zero to $30,000 in monthly recurring revenue. Published customer testimonials cite outcomes such as 200 introductions leading to roughly 70 meetings over six months, 33 meetings booked in about 60 days, and cost per lead under $18.

Latest developments

In 2025 the company promoted a new generation of AI sales agents β€” Strategy, Targeting and Reply β€” that jointly plan, launch and manage LinkedIn outbound campaigns and book meetings on users' calendars. Management has indicated it expects to pursue a venture capital raise in the future and is building a revenue operations function covering sales, marketing and account management to serve larger enterprise clients.

β–ΈFull profile β€” market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies

Market position

Operates in the sales-enablement and outbound prospecting software market, which the CEO described as young with few options when the company entered in 2018. The company differentiates on LinkedIn-native prospecting and lead quality rather than high-volume cold email.

Focus on LinkedIn as the outreach channel rather than cold email, an emphasis on "humanizing AI" and lead quality over volume, end-to-end automation across strategy, targeting and reply handling, and a funding path built on non-dilutive government capital rather than venture rounds.

Technology

Self-trained AI agents that coordinate across strategy, targeting and reply-handling functions. The system ingests information about a customer's business and market, builds audience segments from LinkedIn Sales Navigator, generates per-segment personalized outreach, and manages live reply conversations with intent detection, objection handling and calendar booking. Earlier generations of the technology classified prospect replies into warm and cold leads. A separate video product automates the editing, processing, rendering and publishing of partly personalized videos.

Go-to-market

Self-serve and sales-assisted onboarding from the company website, with the claim that most clients launch campaigns within 30 minutes of signing up; supported by customer testimonials, a blog and resource center, and product-led messaging around replacing manual prospecting work.

Sales and revenue teams doing outbound prospecting, including business development representatives, consultants, recruiters, and financial and insurance advisors; the company states an ambition to move upmarket toward enterprise clients, particularly in the United States. Customer testimonials come from founders, sales leaders, investment advisors, consultants and recruiting firms.

Geography

Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and describes itself as a proudly Canadian company with an all-Canadian team spanning sales and engineering, some of whom relocated back from the Bay Area. Its expansion focus is international customers, particularly in the United States, and its government funding requires local hiring alongside international growth.

History

After the 2017 Victory Square investment and 2018 pivot, CoPilot AI focused on LinkedIn-based prospecting tools for individuals and teams in what was then a young sales-enablement market. The company gained traction and nearly closed a venture round in 2021, but Apple's data-tracking privacy changes raised its customer acquisition costs, its valuation fell and the term sheet was lost. Management used that period to refocus the business model on "humanizing AI." Discussions with Canadian government funders that began in 2021 concluded in March 2023 with a $5 million non-dilutive award from the Jobs and Growth Fund via PacifiCan, part of a $27.9 million package of regional investments. By 2025 the company was marketing a multi-agent AI product line for LinkedIn outbound.

Risks & controversies

Apple's 2021 privacy changes to data tracking raised the company's customer acquisition costs, contributing to a valuation decline and the loss of a term sheet for a venture round. The product depends on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Sales Navigator as its primary channel and data source, and much of the publicly available performance evidence comes from company-stated figures and customer testimonials.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β€” announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
High-intent conversation rateJan 202535%
High-value meetings bookedJan 202565,000 meetings
LinkedIn connections poweredJan 20252,100,000 connections
Monthly recurring revenue reached in first month of sales enablement productJan 2018$30K
Time to launch first outbound campaignJan 2025Most clients launch campaigns within 30 minutes of signing up

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β€” not independently audited.

Timeline Β· 6

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
AI sales agents for LinkedIn outbound

CoPilot AI markets a set of AI agents β€” a Strategy Agent that builds the outbound plan, a Targeting Agent that builds audience segments from LinkedIn Sales Navigator and writes personalized outreach, and a Reply Agent that handles prospect conversations and books meetings.

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Mar 2023
PacifiCan awards CoPilot AI $5M in non-dilutive funding from the Jobs and Growth Fund

CoPilot AI received $5 million in non-dilutive capital from the Canadian government's Jobs and Growth Fund, administered by PacifiCan, as part of a $27.9 million round of regional investments announced in March 2023. Discussions began in 2021, and the funding requires local hiring alongside international expansion.

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Jan 2023
Named to Canada's best startup employers list

Company site cites recognition on a Canada's best startup employers list based on a scoring model ranking 200 companies.

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Jan 2022
Launch of Video by CoPilot AI in beta

CoPilot AI introduced Video by CoPilot AI, a platform for creating personalized videos at scale by recording individual introductions and automatically stitching them with a shared body and conclusion, handling editing, processing, rendering and publishing.

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Jan 2018
Pivot from fintech to sales enablement SaaS

Following the 2017 investment, the company pivoted from fintech to sales enablement software, supporting individuals and teams in prospecting and closing deals largely through LinkedIn.

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Jan 2014
Founders start fintech company out of Launch Academy

Jesse Chen and Henry Bee founded a fintech company at Vancouver incubator Launch Academy in 2014, building risk management and portfolio optimization tools for investors sold through financial advisors.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

β–ΈResearch sources Β· 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Copilot AI do?
CoPilot AI is a Vancouver-based company selling AI agents that run LinkedIn outbound prospecting and book sales meetings.
Who founded Copilot AI?
Copilot AI was founded by Jesse Chen.
Who are Copilot AI's investors?
Copilot AI's investors include Victory Square Technologies.
Where is Copilot AI headquartered?
Copilot AI is headquartered in Vancouver, CA.