Qpoint announced it closed $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Mango Capital with participation from Preface
Ventures, Scribble Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. Qpoint leverages next
generation eBPF technology to give platform teams and operators unmatched
visibility and control over their applications' critical external dependencies
and traffic flows, to enhance reliability, maximize productivity, and safeguard
sensitive data. The funds will be used to further product development and meet
rising demand.
Modern
production applications rely on a wide range of external services to deliver the features required to meet business
objectives. This paradigm powers innovation and reduces time to market, but
introduces unpredictable operational challenges and potential security risks
for ops teams. The lack of specialized tooling to manage dependencies and external traffic can result in
prolonged outages due to vendor issues, countless hours wasted on
troubleshooting and unintended exposure of sensitive data. Home-grown
proxy-based solutions create single points of failure, add certificate
management overhead and further increase security risk.
Qpoint
transforms how companies oversee their external integrations by providing ops
teams with a purpose-built solution that delivers real-time, granular
visibility and control over the flow of traffic. Powered by cutting-edge eBPF
technology that runs in the Linux kernel, Qpoint
taps directly into the request flow between the primary applications and their
external dependencies, providing unparalleled insights without impacting
performance or requiring data to leave the environment. This enables teams to
boost reliability, streamline troubleshooting, reduce cloud spend and minimize
security risk with minimal operational hassle.
"Modern
applications are highly dependent on the stability of external services in
order to run smoothly. When you can't easily see or control those connections,
vendor issues become your interruptions and you waste countless hours trying to
resolve reliability and security problems in the dark," said Tyler Flint,
co-founder and CEO of Qpoint. "By delivering comprehensive visibility and
control over your applications' interactions with their external dependencies,
Qpoint becomes a game changer for platform teams and site reliability
engineers."
With
founding members from Shopify, Instacart, DigitalOcean, Hashicorp and NS1
(acquired by IBM), the Qpoint team has a history of success building software
and scaling operations for globally influential technology companies.
Qpoint Solves Critical Operational Challenges
Qpoint
enables an operations team to tackle a wide range of integration-related use
cases, including:
- External Service
Reliability:
Immediately identify issues or anomalous behavior with external services
to minimize impacts on mission-critical applications.
- Rate Limit
Detection:
Continuously track external API usage, providing alerts when nearing
capacity limits to prevent throttling and maintain availability for
production systems.
- Root Cause
Analysis and Debugging:
Enable improved analysis and troubleshooting of integration-related issues
for dramatically faster mean time to resolution.
- Cloud Bandwidth
and Billing Attribution:
Get insight into bandwidth utilization to accurately attribute resource
usage and cloud costs to specific teams or projects.
- Vendor Audit
Trails: Track
vendor API interactions to provide clear evidence of SLA violations and
ensure vendor accountability
- Zero Trust
Security: Limit
access to external endpoints to only those applications that have been
explicitly authorized, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access and
sensitive data exposure.
"Modern
applications increasingly rely on a myriad of external services, which
drastically increases management complexity and system reliability," said Robin
Vasan, founder and general partner at Mango Capital. "Qpoint's novel approach
leveraging eBPF and seamlessly integrating with existing solutions is a
breakthrough for managing third-party dependencies and traffic flows."