Location
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Region: California
Country: US
Continent: North America
About
Kong is a global leader in API management and cloud-native connectivity, offering a unified platform for API management, service mesh, ingress control, and AI-enabled connectivity. The company serves enterprises across industries by helping developers build, deploy, secure, and govern APIs, LLMs, and real-time data flows at scale. Headquartered with a global customer base, Kong emphasizes developer productivity, security, and performance for modern architectures. Its offerings span Kong Konnect, Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Insomnia, and related developer tools and governance capabilities.
Kong provides a cloud-native API management platform that enables enterprises to build, secure, and govern APIs and microservices at scale. Its unified solution includes Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and AI Gateway, serving developers and organizations requiring robust connectivity and performance for modern architectures.
Kong, Inc.
2017
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Software
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series E
416000000
50m-100m
private
Investors
Founders
Augusto Marietti
Marco Palladino
Michele Zonca
Leadership
Marco Palladino — Co-Founder & CTO
Augusto Marietti — Co-Founder and CEO
Nicole Bantique — Director of People Operations
Ross Kukulinski — VP of Product Management
Geoff Townsend — VP, Engineering
Sunil Wadhwa — Chief Customer Officer
Massimo Sgrelli — Angel Investor
Devdutt Yellurkar — board_member
Marco Palladino — board_member
Devdutt Yellurkar — board_member
Technology Stack
Products
Kong Konnect: A cloud-native API lifecycle management platform that enables building, running, discovering, and governing APIs in a unified environment.
Kong Gateway Enterprise: An API gateway solution that manages, configures, and routes API requests securely and efficiently across enterprise environments.
Kong Mesh: An enterprise service mesh that enables secure, consistent service-to-service communication across Kubernetes and virtual machine environments.
Kong AI Gateway: A gateway designed to provide secure, reliable, and cost-effective access to APIs, large language models (LLMs), MCP servers, and real-time data for AI applications.
Kong Event Gateway: A platform to manage event streaming infrastructure, enabling cost-efficient event processing, real-time data productization, and enhanced streaming security.
Kong Insomnia: A collaborative API client and design tool for building, testing, and debugging APIs.
Funding rounds
Series E · $175M · (2024-11-19) · Lead: Balderton Capital,Tiger Global Management
Series D · $100M · (2021-02-08) · Lead: Tiger Global Management
Series C · $43M · (2019-03-28) · Lead: Index Ventures