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.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
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
Boston, MA 02114 (HQ)
Dover, Delaware 19904
651 N Broad St, Middletown, Delaware 19709
Wilmington, DE 19802
Beaverton, Oregon 97008-7105, United States
Brazil
Business model
identity-based subscription SaaS
enterprise security platform
open-source core with commercial offering
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$4.3M
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$3.2M
People & investors
Leadership
Founder and CEO
VP of Sales
Founding Team Software Engineer
Lead Product Designer
Work & culture
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
health insurance
learning budget for books/conferences/courses
competitive salary + equity
open-source work
hybrid Boston-office option for some roles
Product & market
Pricing
Single-tier, identity-based pricing that scales with the number of identities (engineers, service accounts, AI agents); no feature gating.
Differentiators
- —Wire-level / protocol-level enforcement
- —Masks sensitive data in real time
- —Blocks destructive commands before execution
- —Built-in human approval workflows via Slack/Teams
- —Governance for humans, service accounts, and AI agents in one policy layer
- —No SDKs, application rewrites, or schema changes required
- —Open-source MIT-licensed core
- —Fast deployment in days rather than quarters
- —Structured audit logs for compliance
- —Supports databases, Kubernetes, SSH, APIs, and MCP
Technology
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
MongoDB
Kubernetes
SSH
gRPC
HTTP
RDP
Docker
Unix
Auth0
Okta
JumpCloud
Terraform
GitHub
GitHub Actions
Jira
Slack
Figma
Customers
PicPay
EBANX
Enjoei
Dock
RD Station
NYSE-listed customers
Competitors
Teleport
CyberArk
BeyondTrust
StrongDM
Delinea
HashiCorp Boundary
Tailscale
Apono
One Identity
Wallix
Scale & contact
Latest news
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.
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