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Kong
Enterprise Software
Kong is a San Francisco-based API infrastructure company providing open-source and commercial API gateway and service connectivity software used by developers to manage traffic between microservices and external API consumers.
$1.79B
+$5.95
184.24%
30 days ago
$3.23
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Kong was founded in 2017 by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino, growing out of an earlier company called Mashape that had built an API marketplace, with the founders pivoting to focus specifically on Kong, an open-source API gateway they had originally built to solve their own internal need for managing and securing API traffic, recognizing that as more companies adopted microservices architectures and needed to manage growing numbers of both internal service-to-service API calls and external APIs exposed to partners and customers, there was significant demand for infrastructure specifically designed to manage, secure, and monitor this API traffic at scale. An API gateway, the core category of infrastructure Kong provides, sits between API consumers, whether external developers, partner companies, or internal microservices, and the actual backend services that fulfill API requests, handling cross-cutting concerns such as authentication and authorization, rate limiting to prevent any single consumer from overwhelming backend services, traffic routing, and detailed logging and analytics of API usage, functionality that would otherwise need to be built redundantly into each individual backend service if not centralized in a dedicated gateway layer. Kong built its commercial business around Kong Enterprise, offering additional features, support, and management tooling on top of its open-source Kong Gateway core, and has since expanded into broader "service connectivity" capabilities including a service mesh product for managing communication between microservices within a Kubernetes environment, positioning itself as infrastructure spanning both traditional API gateway use cases and the newer service mesh category that emerged alongside the broader industry shift toward microservices and Kubernetes-based container orchestration. Kong's customers span organizations of many sizes managing significant API traffic, from smaller companies using its open-source gateway to large enterprises using its commercial platform for mission-critical API infrastructure. The company has raised substantial venture funding from investors including Index Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and Goldman Sachs, reaching a valuation exceeding $2 billion, competing with other API management platforms including Apigee (owned by Google) and Amazon API Gateway.
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