Hopper Founders: Roy Gottlieb, Co-founder and CEO, and Oron Gutman, Co-founder and CTO
Israeli cybersecurity startup Hopper has officially launched from stealth mode, securing $7.6 million in Seed funding to transform the landscape of open-source software security. Not surprisingly, the firm was founded by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces’ vaunted cybersecurity units.
The funding round was co-led by Meron Capital and New Era Ventures, with additional backing from the Sequoia Scout Fund, M-Fund, and a roster of prominent tech industry veterans with successful exits to AWS, Oracle, Intel, and other major players.
Open-source software is integral to modern development. Yet, as OSS has scaled dramatically, particularly with the rise of AI, traditional security tools have struggled to keep up, introducing unwelcome cost, complexity, and slowing down developers. Gartner points to false positives, alert fatigue, and the absence of exploitability context, such as function-level reachability, as significant challenges in application security.
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Hopper addresses the shortcomings of today’s Software Composition Analysis (SCA) platforms, which often overwhelm teams with noise, miss crucial vulnerabilities, and impede developer workflows. Hopper provides a modern SCA alternative, offering function-level reachability, automated asset discovery, detection of hidden vulnerabilities, and support for intricate web frameworks – all achieved without agents or modifications to CI pipelines.
Hopper’s mission is to address the growing security challenges in open-source development, offering innovative solutions that enhance visibility, control, and threat detection across the software supply chain. As open-source adoption accelerates across global enterprises, Hopper aims to deliver a more scalable and proactive approach to securing code from development to deployment.
“We didn’t start Hopper because the world needed another SCA tool,” said Roy Gottlieb, Co-founder and CEO. “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.”
Gottlieb is a seasoned investor and operator, a veteran of Unit 81, and recipient of the Israel Defense Prize. 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 the Israel Defense Forces’ renowned cyber defense Unit 8200.
Hopper is already used by Fortune 500s and fast-growing tech companies, empowering security and engineering teams to replace legacy SCA tools and secure their code with a more precise, developer-aligned solution. Before switching, Hopper customers report spending up to 8 percent of total development time addressing alerts. By improving remediation SLAs, reducing MTTR, and boosting developer productivity, Hopper becomes a cost reduction tool for the enterprise.
