A New Kind of Company Builder

Kopper co-founds software startups with overlooked industry experts.

Tradespeople. Operators. Veterans of industries that software forgot. We bring the capital, operational excellence, and AI infrastructure to co-found companies that dominate from day one.

The Manifesto

The best vertical software gets built by the people closest to the problem. Not because outsiders lack intelligence or drive. Because twenty years of lived experience creates a depth of understanding that no amount of research can replicate. The foreman. The estimator. The operator who has watched the same broken process repeat for two decades and already knows exactly what the fix looks like. That person has always had the best ideas. Now, for the first time, they have the tools to build them.

AI has brought the cost of building software to an all-time low. The long tail of workflows, industries, and niches that were once too narrow or too expensive to build for are now wide open. An industry expert with the right tools and the right support behind them is simply hard to compete with. They understand the workflow at a depth no outsider can reach. Their peers trust them before they have a product. And they can now build.

The most interesting opportunities in software right now are not in the obvious places. They are in the industries where the people closest to the work have been quietly solving problems for years and have never had the infrastructure to turn those solutions into companies.

A Million Problems. All Waiting to Be Built.

Kopper is a holding company built around that advantage. We recruit domain experts, co-create the idea alongside them, provide initial funding, and build the company from the ground up. You bring what no one else has: the workflow knowledge, the credibility, the network, and the product intuition that takes outsiders years to develop. We bring the management experience, the AI-powered infrastructure, the capital, and the team.

This is not a consulting arrangement or an accelerator program. It is a genuine co-founder partnership. We work inside every company we build from day one, and we are not done until the business is real.

The best software companies of the next decade will come from people who spent their careers inside the industries they are transforming. Let's go build them together.

Who We Look For

Battle Tested

Ten or more years in an operational industry. Construction, insurance, logistics, oil and gas, property management. You know the workflows because you've lived inside them.

Systems Thinker

You've already built workarounds. Spreadsheets, internal tools, processes held together because nothing on the market fit. You see the gaps everyone else has learned to live with.

Ready to Build

You have an idea for what comes next. Maybe a prototype. Maybe just a clear picture of the thing your industry desperately needs. Either way, you're not waiting for permission.

What Kopper Brings

Concept to Revenue, Fast

Our AI infrastructure and operational playbooks compress years of startup grind into months. We've scaled a company past $20M ARR and we bring that muscle from day one.

Capital Without the Circus

We bring the first check. No pitch decks, no term sheets, no strangers on your cap table who've never set foot in your industry. You skip the fundraising loop and get straight to building.

A Full Product Team

CTO, product, and design working alongside you from the start. You own the domain knowledge. We build the software.

GTM That Actually Works

Revenue playbooks and go-to-market strategy built from scaling vertical SaaS. Not theory. Proven systems.

AI-Powered Operations

Back office, ops, and growth infrastructure powered by AI from day one. You run lean without feeling lean.

How We Work Together

Track 01

CEO in Training

You have the leadership instinct and you want to run the company. Kopper is your operational co-founder. We validate, build, and scale the business alongside you. You own the vision and build your own team as the company grows. Longer build, higher upside.

Track 02

Product Lead and Advisor

You stay in your lane. Workflow design, customer relationships, product feedback, peer network. A professional CEO runs the day to day. You hold meaningful equity and do the work you are actually best at. Faster to execute, more operationally reliable.

About

Brendon Sedo

Brendon got his start managing a windshield repair business in university. He was close to the problem, built custom software to run the operation, and realized the same tools were missing for contractors everywhere. That software became Joist, which grew to become the largest software platform for contractors before being acquired by EverCommerce (Nasdaq: EVCM).

Brendon started Kopper to do it again. Not just once, but many times. To find the people who know an industry better than anyone else, and give them everything they need to build the software company only they could build.

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We partner with domain experts to build the software companies only they could build. If that sounds like you, tell us who you are and what you'd build.

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Reviewed by the Kopper Team