About

Founded

2007

Headquarters

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Industry

Travel

Company Description

Hopper is a global travel platform that powers Hopper’s mobile app, as well as partners' direct channels via HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). Hopper combines a best-in-class travel agency, industry-leading e-commerce, and proprietary financial services to help users travel better — and partners earn more. To do this, the company developed several unique fintech ancillaries that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions. Through HTS, Hopper’s B2B business, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels with its full suite of offerings.

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Funding

Total Raised

$729.7 million

Valuation

$5 billion

Significant Investors

WestCap, Capital One, OMERS Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Drive Capital, Stack Capital Group

Company Traction

As of July 2023, Hopper has helped 100 million travelers and has rated 4.8/5 stars from 650,000+ reviews, according to its website.
As of July 2023, Hopper reported it sells $4.5 billion worth of travel annually.

As of July 2023, Hopper has 1.1 million Instagram followers, 53.7K Twitter followers, 2.1 million Facebook followers, and 161.9K TikTok followers.

As of November 2022, Hopper has an estimated 11.2% of the third-party travel market.

As of February 2022, Hopper has 70 million downloads and $2 billion in travel sales to date.

In 2021, Hopper reported 300% revenue growth over 2020.

Leadership Team

Frederic Lalonde: Co-Founder & CEO of Hopper. Former VP of Hotels & Packages Product Planning at Expedia.

Dakota Smith: Co-Founder & President of Hopper. Former Founder of Traveler’s Digest.

Daniel Calderon: CFO at Hopper. Former Director of Corporate Finance at Deliveroo.

Patrick Surry: Chief Data Scientist at Hopper. Former Global Solutions Owner for Customer Analytics at Pitney Bowes Software.

Alex Campeau: VP of Engineering at Hopper. Former Director of Software Development and Engineering at INAP.

Press

Skift (June 9, 2023): Hopper’s ‘Rise in Travel’ Comes Without Playing the Search Engine Marketing Game

TechCrunch (November 7, 2022): Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch (February 3, 2022): Travel booking app Hopper upgrades its valuation to $5B on secondary sale

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