AI infrastructure

Hopper

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Hopper trains open-weight models on your production traces, then serves and improves them against your live traffic.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Pavan Katta

Founder/CEO

Previously led voice inference and post-training at Salient ($60m series a from a16z, voice). IIT Madras

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Jashwanth Pedapudi

Founder/CTO

CTO at Hopper (YC F26). Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. Previously kernels engineer at Meta Reality Labs.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 2 of 6 areas documented

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