Pilot
Pilot is building a social travel hub (AI-Powered) that helps groups discover, plan, book, and share trips together in one platform.
- Stage Product In Market
- Industry Travel
- Location North Vancouver, BC V7L, Canada
- Currency CAD
- Founded May 2020
- Employees 13
- Incorporation Type Other
- Website pilotplans.com
Company Summary
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- 55% of people who use Pilot for +10min say they'd be very disappointed if they no longer could.
- 100% organic growth (zero ads) to 18,000 users, and 200k-300k monthly website visitors.
- CEO has travel industry experience, a $30mil bootstrapped SaaS exit, and has raised $900k thus far
Team
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Founder, CEO- Ex-NiceJob; led business-end of the company. to a $30mil bootstrapped exit in 3.5 years.
- Won 2nd place in 2019 NVBC Awards.
- Former Advisor to CEO of $90mil/year FinTech.
- NEXT Canada Entrepreneur alumni + 2023 C100 cohort, & UBC Sauder grad
- Early employee at travel unicorn (Sonder).
- +10 years growth/product experience.
- +43 positive reviews and testimonials. (www.connorjwilson.com/work-with-me) -
Taher KathawalaTechnical Product Lead; Founding Team- Leading systems & data efforts
- Ex-Tesla Software Engineer
- Ex-Microchip Systems Engineer
- UBC Electrical Engineering educated
- Former rocket scientist (developed ultra-low-cost suborbital rocket technology). -
Social Product Lead; Founding Team- Leading customer-facing product management
- Ex-SnapTravel Ops (now Super), travel unicorn
- uOttawa Social Sciences honours (entrepreneurship minor) educated. -
Head of Growth & Marketing; Founding Team- Led Pilot’s traffic growth from ~3000/month to ~230,000/month in 12 months.
- Worked at numerous non-profit organizations, including Operation Smile, FinFree, and Habitat for Humanity.
- Graduate of UBC Science with Distinction, background in data science & analytics.
Advisors
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