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• “We are the opposite of a meta search site”: Hopper CEO Frederic Lalonde For a start-up, Hopper believes that to fix the user experience, first there is a need to fix the data. Hopper is built on NoSQL technology, which means it doesn’t have a rigid data schema, and it can scale out easily to store hundreds of millions, even billions of records. read more... Ritesh Gupta, August 25th, 2011

• Former Expedia Employees Raise $8 Million For Travel Search Startup Hopper Hopper, a Montreal, Canada-based startup, has raised $8 million in fresh funding from Atlas Venture and previous backer Brightspark Ventures to try and ‘reinvent travel search’. read more... Robin Wauters, August 22nd, 2011

• Big data is stealth travel site’s secret weapon Montreal-based Hopper wants to make searching for travel options a more complete experience using big data tools, and it has raised another $8 million to do it. read more... Derrick Harris, August 22nd, 2011

• Stealth startup Hopper gets $8M for travel search What we do know about Hopper’s product is that it won’t be focused on finding prices and itineraries for folks who already know where they want to go and what they want to do. Rather, Hopper will accept natural language queries from users and return a list of destinations and travel options accordingly. read more... Jolie O'Dell, August 22nd, 2011

• Hopper aims to inspire with $8M in funding and 600 servers With $8 million in new funding from Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures, travel startup Hopper hopes to continue building its own servers and to bridge the travel inspiration gap. “To us, it’s a little baffling that it hasn’t happened yet,” says Frederic Lalonde, Hopper CEO, referring to attempts to cross what he terms the “inspiration chasm.” read more... Dennis Schaal, August 22nd, 2011

• The Daily Start-Up The “big data” trend is finding its way into many verticals, including travel, where Montreal-based start-up Hopper Inc. plans to use an $8 million Series B round and cluster computing techniques to build the world’s largest database of travel information. read more... Venture Wire, August 22nd, 2011

• Hopper, With $8M in New VC Bucks, Looks to Leapfrog Online Travel Search Via Big Data It’s a more open-ended, “discovery” type of search than what has become standard on itinerary comparison sites like Kayak, Bing Travel, Orbitz, and newer sites like Hipmunk, InsideTrip, WaySavvy, and Yapta. read more... Gregory T. Huang, August 22nd, 2011

• Hopper confirms $8M fundraise, Boston move plans Montreal-born travel website Hopper has confirmed reports it has received $8 million in new funding from Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures, and is looking to relocate to the Greater Boston area. read more... Rodney H. Brown, August 22nd, 2011

• Fred Lalonde, Co-Founder of Hopper, Talks About the Startup’s Progress Hopper is a discovery engine for travel. Which means that it’s a search engine totally dedicated to the inspiration and planning of trips. read more... Ben Yoskovitz, August 22rd, 2011

• Website hopes to add retro to travel planning “We’re interested in adding inspirational stuff, like the best restaurants to try for a particular kind of food, the best places to golf in the Mediterranean, or to see the running of the bulls.’’ read more... Scott Kirsner, August 8th, 2011

• Hopper ready to unleash full text travel search system If the future of travel search is something like Hopper, and if Google has something like this in mind for its ITA Software acquisition, then opponents of the deal may have more to worry about than they realize. read more... Dennis Schaal, March 14th, 2011

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