Hop Aero

Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments

Los Angeles, CA

6 employees

Aerospace

Seed · $500K

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About Hop Aero

Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments

Company details

Team Size6

LocationLos Angeles, CA

IndustryAerospace

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Lunar Ventures

OOutsized Ventures

Silicon Roundabout Ventures

MMasia

Founders

Matija Milenovic

Founder at Hop Aero. Raised $3M pre-seed and won $1.25M SBIR from US Air Force. Previously CEO at porkchop (electric propulsion for satellites), launched on SpaceX Transporter-3, built $400M+ sales pipeline, sold IP. System Engineer at Destinus leading 20+ person team on supersonic UAV. Scaled Ukrainian loitering munition production from 10 to 100+ units/month. MS Aerospace Engineering KTH Stockholm.

Jacob Balaj

Founder at Hop Aero. Previously Integration & Test Engineer at SpinLaunch (satellites), Lead Systems Integration & Test at Masten Space Systems (lunar lander for NASA's CLPS program), and Integration & Test at Virgin Orbit (LauncherOne) and SpaceX (Falcon 9/Heavy—built booster refurbishment process, cut test time in half). Earlier avionics QA on MV-22 tiltrotors in the US Marine Corps.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.