Hopper, based in Montreal, was founded in 2007 by CEO Frederic LaLonde, Joost Ouwerkerk and Dakota Smith. The company, which was valued at a little more than $3.5 billion in 2021, is one of the largest online travel agencies in North America with a reported 80 million downloads of its free app. Like Kayak, Expedia, and Priceline, the company functions as a flight price search engine: it pulls in flight pricing from all the airlines to show customers which have the cheapest fares.
In November, Hopper announced that it had secured a $96 million investment from credit-card company Capital One, which previously led Hopper’s Series F round that raised $170 million in March 2021.
These comments should not be interpreted to mean that the company is formally pursuing or foregoing an IPO.
Hopper is a private company and not publicly traded.
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