Open Source Security Firm Hopper Emerges From Stealth With $7.6M in Funding

Hopper has emerged from stealth mode with a solution designed to help organizations manage open source software risk.

Open source security startup Hopper on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode, announcing that it has received $7.6 million in funding for its solution.

Founded by Roy Gottlieb (CEO) and Oron Gutman (CTO), the company was named after computer programming pioneer Grace Hopper.

Hopper has developed a platform designed to help organizations manage open source software (OSS) risk.

The platform is advertised as an alternative to software composition analysis (SCA), aiming to address common application security challenges such as false positives, alert fatigue, and the lack of exploitability context.

The Hopper platform provides function-level reachability, automated asset discovery, hidden vulnerability detection, and support for complex web frameworks, without the need for agents or CI changes, the company says.

Hopper claims its solution can pinpoint the line of code where a vulnerability exists ...