Startup profile for PilotGPT: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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PilotGPT funding, valuation and investors

Offline AI copilot for GA pilots — POH-grounded flight planning, weather, and ATC help.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Not publicly disclosed

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

Not publicly disclosed

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed · Santa Ana, CA

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

PilotGPT is an AI-powered electronic flight bag and copilot for general-aviation pilots, built by founders Murtaza Hussain (CEO) and Ali Moiz (co-founder, president). The app grounds answers in official FAA data, POHs, and aircraft manuals — supporting VFR/IFR planning, METAR/TAF/NOTAM briefings, approach plates, and offline on-device operation. PilotGPT claims 500+ aircraft models, 1,000+ pilots, and 10,000+ logged flight hours on its site. The company evolved from prior startup Stonks after many pivots; Joshua Baer/Capital Factory backed the earlier entity per founder posts. PilotGPT appears on a16z's consumer portfolio page; no standalone round size or date has been publicly disclosed beyond that portfolio relationship.

Why PilotGPT is interesting

Repeat founders Ali Moiz (Streamlabs) and Murtaza Hussain pivoted through 11+ concepts as Stonks before landing on aviation; CEO Hussain built PilotGPT after ~500 hours as a solo GA pilot juggling charts and ATC with no copilot in the right seat.

Product & use cases

On-device AI aviation assistant combining flight planning, FAA-sourced maps and plates, weather briefings, and chat grounded in each aircraft's POH — designed for single-pilot GA workload reduction with full offline mode.

  • Single-pilot workload reduction in high-task cockpit phases
  • Offline go/no-go and route weather briefings
  • POH and checklist lookup without searching paper manuals

Key facts

  • a16z portfolio status: Active — listed on a16z consumer portfolio page
  • Product: offline AI EFB with POH-grounded answers, 500+ aircraft models (PilotGPT.com)
  • Founders: Murtaza Hussain (CEO) and Ali Moiz — co-founder of Streamlabs (acquired by Logitech)
  • Pricing: $49.99/month ($29.99 for students/CFIs) per PilotGPT site; 7-day trial noted in iPad Pilot News

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from PilotGPT's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Aviation-native grounding in FAA sources and aircraft POHs versus general LLMs that hallucinate — offline on-device inference for connectivity-poor flight phases.

PilotGPT sits between full EFBs (ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot) and generic AI chat. Its bet is that GA pilots need aviation-specific grounding and offline reliability — not another general assistant. ForeFlight could embed similar features natively given distribution; PilotGPT's edge is focus and POH training per tail number. Regulatory certification status for in-flight decision support should be verified independently — the product positions as a planning and reference aid, not certified avionics.

  • ForeFlight incumbent

    Dominant GA EFB with maps, weather, and logbook; adding AI features but not POH-native offline copilot positioning.

  • Garmin Pilot incumbent

    Integrated with Garmin avionics ecosystem; less AI-native conversational workflow than PilotGPT.

  • ChatGPT / general LLMs alternative

    Flexible but not FAA-grounded; iPad Pilot News warns pilots to verify critical aviation data independently.

Notable stories

  • CEO Murtaza Hussain wrote on PilotGPT.com that the product was 'born from solo GA flying' at ~500 hours — juggling charts, regs, checklists, and ATC with no one in the right seat.
  • Co-founder Ali Moiz posted that Stonks (PilotGPT's predecessor) went through 11 pivots before landing on aviation AI; he and Hussain documented the journey in their book '3 Startups, 40 Pivots' (LinkedIn, 2025–2026).

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Consumer

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FAQs about PilotGPT

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

An AI copilot and lightweight EFB for general-aviation pilots — flight planning, weather, POH chat, and offline operation.
Listed on a16z's consumer portfolio; no public round size disclosed. See /fund/andreessen-horowitz. Capital Factory backed the earlier Stonks entity per founder posts.
Yes — on-device AI runs fully offline for POH answers, maps, and ATC transcription per company site.
ForeFlight is a full EFB ecosystem; PilotGPT is AI-native with POH-grounded chat and offline copilot positioning. They can be used alongside each other.
No standalone institutional round with disclosed amount has been published; a16z consumer portfolio listing is the primary public VC signal.
Murtaza Hussain (CEO) and Ali Moiz (co-founder, president) — Moiz previously co-founded Streamlabs.
$49.99/month standard; $29.99/month for students and CFIs per PilotGPT.com.
500+ models including Cessna 172, Piper Cherokee, Cirrus SR20/22, Diamond DA40, and Beechcraft Bonanza per company site.
Not positioned as certified avionics — pilots should verify critical data independently; iPad Pilot News reviewed it as a planning aid.
Prior startup name before the aviation pivot; founders documented multiple pivots before launching PilotGPT.
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