# Hopper: infrastructure company

Canonical ID: `6800b503-8ced-4f2b-8015-cd77e18727ca`

## Key facts

- **Latency claims (company-claimed, Oct 2026):** Claims 80 ms time to first token on Gemma 4 31B, 150 ms time to first audio on Qwen 3 TTS, and Nemotron 3.5 ASR at twice the speed of [Deepgram](/companies/deepgram.md) Nova-3.
- **Service model (company-stated):** Post-trains open-source STT, TTS and speech LLMs on customers' production calls, then serves and improves them against live traffic.

- **Slug:** hopper-inference
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2026
- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA, USA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (2)

- [Pavan Katta](/people/pavan-katta.md) Co-founder and CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Jashwanth Pedapudi](/people/jashwanth-pedapudi.md) Co-founder and CTO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (2)

- [Pavan Katta](/people/pavan-katta.md) (cofounder)
- [Jashwanth Pedapudi](/people/jashwanth-pedapudi.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Hopper?

Hopper is a [San Francisco](/locations/san-francisco-ca.md) inference company in [Y Combinator](/companies/y-combinator.md)'s Fall 2026 batch that optimizes, serves and post-trains open-weight speech and language models for real-time voice agent companies.

### What does Hopper make?

Hopper has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry.

### Is Hopper publicly traded?

No. Hopper is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Hopper?

Hopper is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Hopper headquartered?

Hopper is headquartered in [San Francisco, CA](/locations/san-francisco-ca.md), [USA](/locations/waymo-fleet-usa.md).

### Who owns Hopper?

Hopper is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Hopper a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Hopper ranks in roughly the top 88% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Hopper founded?

Hopper was founded in 2026.


## Sources (2)

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hopper · 2026-10-27
2. https://withhopper.com/ · 2026-10-27

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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