Qpoint

Qpoint, Inc. is a technology firm that provides a specialized platform for managing and securing external service dependencies for modern applications. Founded in 2022 by Tyler Flint and Mark Parson, the company is headquartered in Windermere, Florida.

The founding team possesses extensive experience from influential technology companies such as Shopify, Instacart, DigitalOcean, and Hashicorp. CEO Tyler Flint is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Nanobox, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019. This background in building and scaling solutions for major tech players directly informed Qpoint's creation, which aims to solve the operational and security challenges arising from the increasing reliance on third-party APIs and services in application development.

Qpoint's core offering is a platform that utilizes eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology to give platform teams, SREs, and operators visibility and control over their applications' external traffic flows. The product consists of a lightweight eBPF agent called "Qtap" that is deployed on application hosts. This agent operates at the kernel level to capture connection metadata and payload content before encryption, eliminating the need for complex certificate management or application code modifications. The "Qplane" is the cloud control plane that provides a graphical interface for users to monitor endpoints, review audit logs, and manage the fleet of agents. Key features include automatic discovery of all service dependencies, real-time data scrubbing, rate limit detection, and vendor access control. This allows clients to identify and troubleshoot issues with external services, prevent outages, optimize cloud spending, and mitigate security risks like sensitive data exposure.

The company's business model appears to be subscription-based, with pricing tiers determined by the number of requests processed by the platform. A free tier is available for smaller-scale deployments or testing purposes. Qpoint serves a client base of operators and site reliability engineers in organizations that build and maintain highly connected, cloud-native applications. In October 2024, the company announced it had secured $4 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Mango Capital, with participation from Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta, to fuel product development and market expansion.

Keywords: eBPF, external dependency management, API security, application observability, network traffic analysis, site reliability engineering, egress observability, cloud security, kernel-level monitoring, third-party API integration, service dependency mapping, data exfiltration prevention, cloud cost optimization, platform-as-a-service, PaaS, pre-seed funding, network management software, application performance management, API gateway, microservices monitoring, security compliance