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Fast inference for voice

F26·Fall 2026·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 2·Founded 2026
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About

Our customers use Hopper today for two things: replacing GPT-4.1 with Gemma-4 (6x faster), and replacing Elevenlabs with qwen3-tts (8x cheaper).

Founders

  • Pavan Katta· Founder/CEO

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

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  • Jashwanth Pedapudi· Founder/CTO

    Founder at Hopper. Previously kernels engineer at Meta Reality Labs. Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.

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  1. September 7, 2026
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