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Hopper
Hopper
Fast inference for voice
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Fall 2026
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San Francisco
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https://withhopper.com
Fast inference for voice
Hopper post-trains STT, TTS, and speech LLMs on your production calls, then serves and improves them against your live traffic
Active Founders
Pavan Katta
Founder/CEO
Previously led voice inference and post-training at Salient ($60m series a from a16z, voice). IIT Madras
Pavan Katta
Founder/CEO
Previously led voice inference and post-training at Salient ($60m series a from a16z, voice). IIT Madras
Jashwanth Pedapudi
Founder/CTO
CTO at Hopper (YC F26). Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. Previously kernels engineer at Meta Reality Labs.
Jashwanth Pedapudi
Founder/CTO
CTO at Hopper (YC F26). Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. Previously kernels engineer at Meta Reality Labs.
Hopper
Founded:
2026
Batch:
Fall 2026
Team Size:
2
Status:
Active
Location:
San Francisco
Primary Partner:
Charlie Warren
