Hopper announced it has officially launched out of stealth to transform how organizations manage open-source software (OSS) risk. The company has raised $7.6 million in seed funding, co-led by Meron Capital and New Era, with participation from the Sequoia Scout Fund, M-Fund, and leaders behind exits to Intel, Oracle, Google, HPE, Symantec, ZoomInfo, AWS, and more.
Founder backgrounds: Hopper co-founder and CEO Roy Gottlieb is a seasoned investor and operator, a veteran of Unit 81, and recipient of the Israel Defense Prize. And his co-founder, Oron Gutman, is a veteran vulnerability researcher and two-time Israel Defense Prize winner, with 14 years of experience including section lead of Unit 8200.
Value Proposition: Modern software depends on open-source. And as OSS scaled (accelerated by AI), legacy security tools failed to keep up, introducing undesired cost, complexity, and drag on developer productivity. And the current Software Composition Analysis (SCA) platforms overwhelm teams with noise, miss critical risks, and frustrate developers. Plus, Hopper delivers a modern alternative to SCA, with function-level reachability, automated asset discovery, hidden vulnerability detection, and support for complex web frameworks — all without agents or CI changes.
Hopper is now used by Fortune 500s and fast-growing tech companies, enabling security and engineering teams to replace legacy SCA tools and secure their code with a more precise and developer-aligned solution. Before switching, Hopper customers have reported spending up to 8% of total development time addressing alerts. By enhancing remediation SLAs, reducing MTTR, and boosting developer productivity, Hopper becomes a cost-reduction tool for the enterprise.
Most vulnerability databases don’t reveal where a vulnerability lives in the code. And CVE standards intentionally omit function-level detail to avoid exploitation, but that tradeoff comes at a cost. Hopper closes this gap with a proprietary knowledge base mapping vulnerable functions across the OSS ecosystem.
KEY QUOTES:
“We didn’t start Hopper because the world needed another SCA tool. We started it because existing solutions overwhelm teams and slow down development. Hopper is built to cut through the clutter, surface real risks, and make open-source security fast, accurate, and developer-friendly.”
Roy Gottlieb, Co-founder and CEO
“Hopper doesn’t just tell you that a vulnerability exists. It shows you the line of code, the function, the evidence, and why it matters. That’s what finally gets developers to act.”
A Fortune 100 CISO, speaking under NDA
