ExitLag

Who owns ExitLag?

ExitLag is privately owned by its co-founders Leandro Sandmann and Fabiano Skowronski. There is no parent company and no controlling institutional investor on record.

Is ExitLag a public company?

No. ExitLag is privately held, operates through Exitlag LLC in Orlando, and has never listed shares publicly or announced IPO plans.

When was ExitLag founded?

The company was founded in 2010 in Brazil, originally under the name Skowsand Serviços Para Internet, with the product itself first sold as TibiaTunnel for the game Tibia. It rebranded to ExitLag as game support broadened and moved its headquarters to Orlando in 2019.

Who founded ExitLag?

Leandro Sandmann and Fabiano Skowronski, two Brazilian gamers and developers, founded the company after building a routing tool to fix their own lag playing Tibia. Both remain in leadership roles more than 15 years later.

What does ExitLag sell?

The company sells subscriptions to a network optimization app for online games. The software routes traffic through a worldwide relay network along the fastest available paths, reducing ping, lag spikes, and packet loss for thousands of supported games on PC and mobile.

Where is ExitLag headquartered?

ExitLag's headquarters is in Orlando, Florida, at 2815 Directors Row. The company relocated from Brazil in 2019 while keeping substantial operations in its home country.

The company's origin sits in a specific frustration. In the late 2000s, Brazilian players of the MMORPG Tibia faced severe lag because every game server sat overseas. Leandro Sandmann, who had been programming since age 11 and had run a private Tibia server at 14, partnered with fellow player Fabiano Skowronski to test whether rerouting traffic could improve their connection. It worked.

They commercialized the tool around 2010 as TibiaTunnel, selling it inside the Tibia community. Demand pulled them toward a general product: they renamed it ExitLag and expanded support game by game. The business grew on subscription revenue with essentially no institutional funding, which let the founders keep control through the growth years.

The 2019 relocation of headquarters to Orlando, Florida was the decisive strategic move. North America was the largest addressable market for paid gaming utilities, and a US base made partnerships, payment processing, and hiring easier. The Brazilian operations remained substantial, preserving the team's connection to its home market.

In June 2021 ExitLag acquired Haste, the North American network optimization startup that had raised more than $10 million in venture funding. Haste's technology, engineering talent, and esports partnerships merged into ExitLag's platform, consolidating the segment's two most visible brands under one owner.

Partnerships amplified the brand through the early 2020s. A renewed deal with Enthusiast Gaming, announced March 2022, put ExitLag in front of that company's Gen Z audience. The product expanded to Android and iOS, extending optimization to mobile gaming, the fastest-growing segment of its user base. By the mid-2020s the company employed roughly 150 to 200 people across about 10 countries, including Brazil, Canada, Portugal, Egypt, and Ukraine.

ExitLag has no significant regulatory actions or public controversies on record. The company operates in a lightly regulated software niche with no gambling, financial, or health exposure.

Category-level criticism exists: network optimizers are sometimes accused of overstating benefits because performance depends heavily on the user's ISP and location. That skepticism is a marketing constraint rather than a legal one. User complaints center on inconsistent improvement for specific routes and on refund friction, both common to subscription utilities.