Kintohub
AcquiredFounded 2017 · 2 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
KintoHub is a cloud deployment platform for developers to build, combine, and deploy backend services, websites, cron jobs, and databases in one place. It supports multiple languages and technologies with serverless deployment, one-click templates, Docker/Helm support, and managed databases, queues, and storage.
Also known as KintoHub
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026KintoHub operated an all-in-one build and deployment platform that let developers combine and run backend services, websites, cron jobs and databases in a single place. Its documentation describes the product as an open-source build and deployment platform with a developer-friendly interface for Kubernetes: it builds code from a git repository, deploys it to Kubernetes, provides a CLI and dashboard for managing deployed applications, automatically generates TLS certificates for HTTPS, and supports full-stack deployment of websites, APIs, jobs and databases. The company positioned the platform as cloud-agnostic, able to run on any Kubernetes cluster, with self-installation guides including Minikube and DigitalOcean.
Service types covered static sites, web apps, backend APIs, backend workers and jobs. Backend services supported Node, Go, Python and other languages, one-click automated serverless deployment, GraphQL, HTTP/HTTPS and TCP endpoints, and background workers such as Celery and Sidekiq. A managed catalog offered MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Minio S3-compatible storage, RabbitMQ and NATS queues, Redis caching, and Elasticsearch and InfluxDB for analytics. Website hosting included custom domains with free Let's Encrypt SSL, password protection and Cloudflare CDN compatibility. The platform supported Dockerfiles, direct deployment of DockerHub images and Helm charts, plus multi-environment workflows with per-environment variable overrides, changelogs between deployments, release history and rollback. Documented examples spanned Node (NextJS, Express, Hapi, Koa), Go (Gin, Fasthttp, Beego), Ruby, Python (Django, Flask), Rust, Elixir, Laravel and static site frameworks including Angular, Docusaurus, Gatsby, Ionic, Preact, React and Vue.
In February 2021 the KintoHub team was fully acquihired by Cash App, developed by Square Inc., according to an AWS event page promoting a talk by founder Joseph Cooper on the company's capital raising and acquisition journey.
Business model
KintoHub sold self-service cloud deployment capacity directly to developers, with a free entry tier and metered pay-as-you-go consumption billed monthly.
Freemium usage-based pricing: a free tier covering up to 1 GB memory (three services at 256 MB each), up to 3 shared vCPU and 1 GB persistent storage, then pay-as-you-go rates including $2-3 per GB of memory per month, dedicated vCPU from about $1.50 per month, $0.28 per GB per month of storage, $0.10 per GB of bandwidth and $0.001 per build/deploy minute, with a $10 credit applied to free-tier resources; static website hosting was advertised as free.
Traction
Referenced customers include Appysport, whose co-CEO/CTO credited KintoHub with enabling a three-month platform launch on a scalable microservice architecture with CI/CD; Vote4.hk, which used KintoHub jobs to rebuild and deploy a Gatsby site at high frequency; and LegalX, which moved from a single microservice to multiple production services. Over $2.4M was raised from VCs and angels before the team's 2021 acquihire.
Latest developments
In February 2021 the KintoHub team was fully acquihired by Cash App, developed by Square Inc. The following month, founder Joseph Cooper presented the company's capital raising and acquisition experience at an AWS Founder Spotlight webinar in Hong Kong.
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Market position
KintoHub positioned itself as a full-stack alternative to platform-as-a-service and static hosting providers, targeting teams that would otherwise assemble CI/CD, container orchestration and managed data services themselves.
The company emphasized combining serverless backend APIs with managed stateful services such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL in the same product, contrasting itself with next-generation cloud providers that lack database support, and with Netlify and Zeit for scheduled job workloads; it also stressed open-source, cloud-agnostic Kubernetes deployment and no framework or code requirements.
Technology
The platform is built around Kubernetes, building source from git repositories and deploying to any Kubernetes cluster. It bundles open-source components for CI/CD, automatic TLS certificate generation, serverless and auto-scaling execution, sleep mode for cost optimization, Docker and Helm chart support, and managed database, queue, cache, storage and analytics services, with access via CLI and web dashboard.
Go-to-market
Self-service sign-up with a free tier requiring no credit card, supported by developer documentation, one-click templates, framework examples, a company blog, customer case studies and a contact form for project inquiries. A head of growth and a developer advocate were listed on the team page.
Developers and engineering teams who want to ship applications without dedicated DevOps staff or cloud infrastructure expertise, including startups building microservice-based products; cited users included Appysport, Vote4.hk and LegalX.
Geography
Capital was raised from investors in the US, EU and Asia; the founder was featured in an AWS Hong Kong startup event as a local startup founder.
History
Founder Joseph Cooper described a roughly three-year journey building KintoHub from scratch, during which the company raised capital from investors in the US, EU and Asia. Company site materials carry a 2020 copyright and list a team of engineers, product, design, QA, DevOps, developer advocacy and growth staff, along with investors and advisors. In February 2021 the team was fully acquihired by Cash App, developed by Square Inc.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsFounder Joseph Cooper spoke at a virtual AWS Founder Spotlight webinar in Hong Kong on KintoHub's capital raising and acquisition journey, alongside AWS startup business development manager Allen Houng.
An AWS event page announcing a talk by founder Joseph Cooper states that in February 2021 the KintoHub team was fully acquihired by Cash App, developed by Square Inc.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Kintohub do?
- KintoHub was an open-source, Kubernetes-based platform for building, combining and deploying backend services, sites, jobs and databases.
- Who are Kintohub's investors?
- Kintohub's investors include Angular Ventures.