Lunar.dev has secured $6 million in Seed funding to enhance its unique platform for third-party API monitoring and usage optimization. The round was led by Uncork Capital, with participation from Angular Ventures.

The startup, founded in 2022 by Eyal Solomon and Roy Gabbay, will use the capital to develop its commercial SaaS product due to launch next year.

Lunar.dev has developed an open-source platform to enhance organizational control and visibility over API consumption. It arrives as APIs become increasingly critical to the functionality of modern software, often resulting in substantial costs and operational challenges. Organizations currently face difficulties due to the lack of proper tools to monitor and manage their API usage, leading to unexpected high costs and operational disruptions when issues go unnoticed until they become critical.

Lunar.dev’s management solution provides a comprehensive overview of API utilization with real-time monitoring capabilities. It allows companies to manage API performance and expenses proactively, without the need to change existing code. Their user-friendly system offers swift setup and a dashboard that presents performance metrics for each API, assisting in identifying and rectifying inefficiencies, production issues, or cost-related surprises promptly. The platform includes features for immediate interventions, such as adjusting API quotas, setting unified throttling policies, and implementing caching.

Gartner’s research highlights the necessity of such a tool, with a 94% adoption rate of third-party APIs demonstrating the widespread reliance on these services. Effective API monitoring and management are crucial for a diverse range of services, from AI to payment processing. By simplifying the management of APIs, Lunar.dev‘s platform empowers developers to maintain the reliability and efficiency of these essential services while managing associated costs and preventing service disruptions.