hoop.dev LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Announced Risk Summary, a local tool that scans coding-agent session logs for PII/secrets and reports risk without exposing the values.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
hoop.dev is a Boston-headquartered, MIT-licensed Layer 7 gateway for secure human and AI-agent access to production systems. It enforces controls at the wire/protocol level to mask sensitive data, block risky commands, route approvals, and record full audit trails without SDKs, app rewrites, or schema changes.
Primary product
Layer 7 data-security gateway for AI agents and secure infrastructure access
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Data Security Software Products
Sub-industry
Privileged access management / AI agent governance
Offices
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Business model
Stage
seed
Total raised
$4.3M
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$3.2M
Leadership
Founder and CEO
VP of Sales
Founding Team Software Engineer
Lead Product Designer
Small, ambitious, engineer-led team with a strong open-source orientation, async/distributed working style, and a bias toward simplicity, speed, and hands-on demos; some public roles are Boston hybrid/in-office.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
A public Sales Engineer posting advertised $100,000-$180,000 per year plus equity, along with health insurance and a learning budget. Broader compensation bands are not public.
Benefits
Pricing
Single-tier, identity-based pricing that scales with the number of identities (engineers, service accounts, AI agents); no feature gating.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
hoop.dev LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Announced Risk Summary, a local tool that scans coding-agent session logs for PII/secrets and reports risk without exposing the values.
hoop.dev LinkedIn · Jul 2026
The company announced hoop.dev labs and Fence, a free/open-source tool for blocking catastrophic AI-coding-agent commands locally.
MGMT Boston · Mar 2026
Coverage of a 2026 product launch focused on Claude Code Gateway, extending hoop.dev's agent-security and access-governance story.
FinSMEs · Oct 2025
Secondary coverage of the seed round, describing hoop.dev as a Boston-based platform and repeating that the round was led by Venture Guides and backed by Y Combinator.
Business Wire · Oct 2025
Announced a seed investment led by Venture Guides and backed by Y Combinator, with Andrios Robert highlighted as founder and CEO. The release says thousands of developers at public companies use hoop.dev and names PicPay as a customer.