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HopShop
Founded 2021 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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HopShop converts fashion creators' Instagram content into shoppable storefronts. Its AI matches items shown in posts to purchasable products and tags them automatically, letting followers buy the pieces they see.
Founders & leadership
HopShop was founded in 2021 by Samvel Minasyan and Tigran Chakhalyan.
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Samvel MinasyanCo-Founder2020–2024Samvel Minasyan is an AI/ML engineer who has built and deployed LLM systems in production, including a cost-saving automation system and a three-sided AI e-commerce marketplace that scaled to millions of products. He specializes in LLM agents, RAG pipelines, semantic search, and production reliability.
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Tigran ChakhalyanCEO and Co-Founder2021–2024Tigran Chakhalyan is founder of HopShop, an AI-powered platform that converts fashion creators' Instagram content into shoppable storefronts. He previously co-founded RopeMoney and worked as head of integrations at Ucraft, where he expanded the app marketplace and launched partnership programs.
Investors · 1
500 Globallisted by 500 GlobalPalo Alto · $150K
How we know: open dataset · 500 Global portfolio 2026-08 · Not right? Tell us
Frequently asked questions
- What does HopShop do?
- HopShop converts fashion creators' Instagram content into shoppable storefronts. Its AI matches items shown in posts to purchasable products and tags them automatically, letting followers buy the pieces they see.
- Who founded HopShop?
- HopShop was founded by Samvel Minasyan, Tigran Chakhalyan in 2021.
- Who are HopShop's investors?
- HopShop's investors include 500 Global.