Hopper

<!-- hacklab:yc-profile -- YC company profile Inference and post-training for realtime agents Hopper trains open-weight models on your production traces, then serves and improve…

Website

About Hopper

YC company profile

Inference and post-training for realtime agents

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

YC batch: Fall 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 2
Location: San Francisco
Country: US
Status: Active
Industry: B2B
Stage: Early
Tags: Infrastructure, AI
YC partner: Charlie Warren

Founders

Pavan Katta — Founder/CEO

CEO at Hopper (YC F26). Previously led post-training at Salient ($60m series a from a16z). Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras

LinkedIn · X

Jashwanth Pedapudi — Founder/CTO

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