Turning every idea into impact.
Our story
We met inside a top-five bank, where fewer than 200 people had ever filed an invention and a handful of patents a year. Four years later, 1,500 inventors were active, we had reviewed thousands of disclosures and thousands of patents were filed per year. That rapid growth exposed every bottleneck in the IP process. IP Copilot is our answer—an IP management platform built by inventors, for inventors to remove those hurdles for everyone else.
Our mission
Help every team find, protect, and use its best ideas. We index your knowledge, map your experts, and turn innovation into searchable, protectable assets.
Most companies capture only 5–10% of what their engineers create; we aim to identify 100% of a companies innovation. Ideally, with engineers spending minimal to no time meeting with an attorney.
Meet our team
Austin Walters
Chief Executive Officer, Founder, AI/ML
ML researcher, engineer & prolific inventor with 600+ granted patents. Austin has successfully launched multiple generative AI products, led open source projects, and managed applied research teams for Fortune 100 companies. He is an alumni of UIUC.
Jeremy Goodsitt, PhD
Chief AI & Data Officer, Founding engineer, AI/ML
Focused on data privacy and distributed ML research, Jeremy was previously an engineer and manager for an applied research team at Capital One which resulted in several open source projects. In addition, he is a prolific inventor with 600+ patents and graduated with PhD from UIUC.
Alvin Hua
Chief Technology Officer
Cloud-native, machine-learning engineer and inventor with 12 years of production experience. Before joining IP Copilot, Alvin built large-scale AWS services at Amazon and earlier led applied-research teams in ML and cybersecurity at Capital One, contributing to open-source privacy projects. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Grant Eden
Founding engineer, Full-Stack
An engineer and inventor, with a diverse background ranging from ML research to front-end development. Previously at Capital One, he developed NLP systems and front-end features scaled to millions of users. Grant graduated from Penn State with a Masters focused on deep learning.
Bryant Yee
Head of Design
Design leader with 13+ years crafting end-to-end product experiences and 50+ granted patents. As Principal Product Designer at Capital One, he shipped company-wide solutions across finance, investing, and innovation labs. Bryant now shapes every pixel of IP Copilot’s product and holds a BFA in Human-Centered Design from the University of Michigan.
David Donlan
VP of Sales
Based in Boston, David brings over 15 years of leadership experience, including his pivotal role in HubSpot’s meteoric rise—from a handful of beta users to $225M in annual revenue and a successful IPO. As a TEDx speaker and proven growth strategist, he’s known for driving explosive revenue through sharp execution and inspired team leadership. Beyond the boardroom, David is a committed startup investor, trusted advisor, and proud husband and father.
Zack Loughlin
Founding Account Executive
Zack is spearheading IP Copilot’s growth as its first sales hire, leading go-to-market from strategy to execution—building the foundation to scale. Before this, he spent years helping companies adopt enterprise software, AI, and data tooling—consistently closing and expanding business with some of the world’s most tech-forward organizations. He thrives in early-stage, 0→1 environments where storytelling, structure, and execution need to happen in parallel.
Omar Estoque
Senior Software Engineer
Full-stack developer with 12+ years of experience, including six in legal-tech. Known for driving major efficiency gains—optimizing costs, speeding search, and streamlining data flows. Omar bridges legacy and modern stacks—Ruby, Rails, Angular, AWS, Elasticsearch—to tame large datasets. He holds a Biotechnology degree with a Bioinformatics minor from Mapúa University.
Daunel Augustin
Software Engineer
Full-stack developer and former neuroscience research specialist who built data pipelines for brain injury studies at UPenn. Daunel blends responsive web design and API development with an entrepreneur’s edge—his projects have earned $13K in pitch-competition prizes. He holds an MCIT degree from UPenn and never misses an NBA highlight.
Alexander Jones
Software Engineer
Software engineer with a background in applied mathematics and computer science. At Baylor University, he coauthored research on Krein-Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomials and developed high-performance symbolic computation tools. His industry experience spans DevOps at Raytheon, full-stack development at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, and full-stack development at Capital One. Alexander holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Baylor University.
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Advisory board
Our values
Innovation
We are committed to continuous innovation, bringing the latest AI advancements to our platform.
Security
We prioritize the protection of your intellectual property with top-tier security measures.
Collaboration
We foster seamless collaboration among inventors, legal teams, and organizations.
Excellence
We strive for excellence in all aspects of our platform, helping our users achieve their innovation goals.
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