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Sloop

Techstars '25

New York City, US · Founded 2021 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors

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Sloop develops a hypertoken platform that reduces AI hallucinations in large language models for high-risk industries including insurance, defense, healthcare, construction, finance, and intelligence. The technology uses quantum and holographic computing-derived methods and is compatible with any existing AI model.

Also known as sloop.ai

Founders & leadership

Sloop was founded in 2021 by Benjamin Kassel.

BKBenjamin Kassel
Benjamin KasselFounderBenjamin Kassel is a marketing and growth executive with over 18 years in senior roles across startups, marketplaces, and agencies in Australia, Europe, and the US. He founded and operated Haimat, a marketing services firm managing over $1M in annual revenue and serving 20+ SaaS, ecommerce, and marketplace clients, and has led market expansion and go-to-market strategy for multiple technology businesses.

Investors · 1

Techstars✓ confirmed by SloopBoulder · $220K

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Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Sloop is a New York-based generative AI company that develops "hypertokens," which it describes as a subset of standard tokens used as information landmarks that act simultaneously as reference points and error-correcting codes for AI models. The company packages this as a context builder that injects hypertokens into prompts to construct what it calls a context map, with the stated goal of improving in-context recall, semantic search, fine-tuning alignment, and generative reasoning across any large language model.

The company positions hypertokens as applicable across three stages of an AI workflow: embedding (index and search quality), fine-tuning (aligning a model to a specific domain), and inference (prompt optimization for chat-style models). It frames the problem it targets as the family of AI failure modes commonly called hallucination, including in-context recall mistakes, foundational knowledge errors, and reasoning errors, and states that hypertokens can reduce such errors to a desired level of precision. Stated use cases include due diligence document review, precision medicine insights, and review of construction blueprints.

Sloop describes itself as in stealth, with plans to publish an arXiv paper presenting proof of its method at the time it exits stealth, and offers case studies on request in the interim. Its website promotes a free trial and beta sign-up.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
ConnectorsJan 202550 connectors
EmployeesJan 20241-10 employees
HeadcountAug 20261
TemplatesJan 2025250 templates
UsersJan 20255,000 users

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
Launch of hypertokens

Company timeline lists the launch of hypertokens in 2025, with a beta sign-up and free trial offered on the website.

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Jan 2024
AI for documents and PDFs

Company timeline lists AI for docs and PDFs as its 2024 focus.

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Jan 2023
AI for web alerts

Company timeline lists AI for web alerts as its 2023 focus.

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Jan 2022
AI for video

Company timeline lists AI for video as its 2022 focus.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Sloop do?
Sloop builds a hypertoken context layer that aims to improve recall and reasoning and cut hallucinations in any LLM.
Who founded Sloop?
Sloop was founded by Benjamin Kassel in 2021.
Who are Sloop's investors?
Sloop's investors include Techstars.
Where is Sloop headquartered?
Sloop is headquartered in New York City, US.