# Hopper

[Hopper on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/hopper)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://withhopper.com/code)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hopper)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/143037522)
- [X](https://x.com/hopper_research)

## About

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## 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavankatta1998/) · [X](https://x.com/PavanKatta1998)

### Jashwanth Pedapudi — Founder/CTO

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

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jashwanth12/) · [X](https://x.com/jashwanth_p)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hopper) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Jashwanth Pedapudi](https://hacklab.so/jashwanth-pedapudi) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Pavan Katta](https://hacklab.so/pavan-katta) — Founder/CEO (Present)