Hoop.dev, a secure access platform designed to eliminate friction in application delivery, announced a seed funding round led by Venture Guides with participation from Y Combinator. The funding will help the company scale its platform, expand its team, and accelerate innovation at the intersection of developer productivity, security, and AI.
Founded by CEO Andrios Robert, Hoop.dev redefines how engineering organizations grant access to developers while maintaining strong security controls. The company’s platform allows development teams to ship software faster without sacrificing compliance or data protection. Thousands of developers at public companies already rely on Hoop.dev to improve speed, control, and reliability across the software delivery process.
Engineering teams face an ongoing challenge balancing rapid development with the need to secure sensitive systems and data. Traditional solutions often require tradeoffs between velocity and control, a problem that has intensified as organizations adopt AI-driven tools. Hoop.dev addresses this issue through a unified, end-to-end access solution that combines security-aware automation, granular permissions, and continuous proof of compliance. The platform’s integration of automated approval flows and built-in data masking allows both human developers and AI agents to ship code faster and more safely.
Hoop.dev embeds security directly into developer and agent workflows, making protection seamless and invisible. Sensitive data is automatically hidden, while approvals and auditing are handled within intuitive, admin-friendly controls. The result is accelerated delivery, improved reliability, and demonstrable compliance—all without slowing down teams.
Customers such as PicPay, a leader in digital banking and financial technology, have reported significant gains in performance and efficiency using Hoop.dev. PicPay’s engineering teams highlighted the reduced cognitive load and simplicity of the platform, allowing developers to focus on innovation while administrators maintain oversight and audit readiness.
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“Every company today is under pressure to move faster while meeting stricter oversight. The legacy approach slows engineers down and still leaves security gaps. We built Hoop to solve both problems. We give teams the power to control every action, automatically block every risky command, mask all their sensitive data, and capture all of their audit proof while drastically accelerating the pace of application delivery.”
Andrios Robert, CEO of Hoop.dev
“Hoop is that rare platform loved by developers, DevOps, security, and compliance alike. As application velocity and coding agents increasingly send enterprise security over the edge, Hoop keeps everything on track, with secure, least-privilege, auditable access to databases and resources with no context switching for developers. Hoop allows faster innovation, and security by design.”
Anton Simunovic, Partner at Venture Guides
“With Hoop.dev, we can reduce cognitive load. Developers don’t need to fully understand the database. They just get an easier way to build their products with the best performance possible.”
PicPay Engineering Lead
