Travel recommendation app Hopper might be considered the new kid on the block, with downloads and usage growing rapidly in 2021 with the introduction of fintech products aimed at providing more flexibility and security to customers.
While it has gained traction in the past year, Hopper has actually been around for close to a decade. It started as travel tool similar to TripAdvisor, in which users could search for a place or activity and check out reviews from the web.
The team working on Hopper spent six years building this database in stealth, launching Hopper.com in 2014. Hopper CEO Frederic Lalonde had previously sold a travel startup to Expedia in 2002.
With all of this valuable data on places and trips, Hopper was well placed to add other features such as flight and hotel bookings. Flights were predominately what the app was known for, as it build a cost prediction tool that could forecast with high accuracy the cost of a…



































