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

  • Connor Wilson
    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 Kathawala
    Technical 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).

  • Abigail Udvari
    Social Product Lead; Founding Team

    - Leading customer-facing product management
    - Ex-SnapTravel Ops (now Super), travel unicorn
    - uOttawa Social Sciences honours (entrepreneurship minor) educated.

  • Yu-Wei Hung
    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.

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