Qpoint, the provider of comprehensive visibility and control over external service dependencies and traffic flows for modern, highly connected applications, is announcing the close of its pre-seed funding, having raised $4 million. This funding—which was led by Mango Capital with participation from Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta—will fuel Qpoint’s product development for its eBPF-based external dependency and traffic flow monitoring technology.
The complexity of today’s applications matches the complexity of modern business. These applications depend on an array of external services to deliver crucial functionality, and while these services make space for innovation, it also increases the chance of operational challenges and security risk, according to Qpoint.
Addressing these concerns, Qpoint delivers a purpose-built solution for monitoring traffic flows in real time at the granular level. With advanced eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology, Qpoint operates directly within the request flow existing between primary applications and their external dependencies, surfacing key insights without disturbing performance or data flow.
Qpoint’s solution empowers enterprise teams to effectively monitor and control application dependencies and flows, increasing app reliability, streamlining troubleshooting, reducing cloud spend, and reducing security risk without extensive operational overhead, according to the company.
“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.”
“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.”
Some key features of Qpoint include:
- External service reliability by immediately identifying issues or analogous behavior associated with external services, minimizing impacts on application performance
- Rate limit detection that alerts teams when API usage nears capacity limits, preventing against throttling and maintaining availability
- Improved root cause analysis and debugging for integration-based issues, accelerating mean time to resolution
- Cloud bandwidth and billing attribution insights to optimize resource usage and cloud costs for specific teams or projects
- Vendor audit trails for API interactions, providing clear evidence of SLA violations and ensuring vendor accountability
- Zero trust security by limiting access to external endpoints to only apps that have been explicitly authorized, decreasing the risk of unauthorized access and data exposure
To learn more about Qpoint, please visit https://qpoint.io/.