Kong
Cloud-native API platform powering the world's APIs. Unified platform for API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes, and ingress controllers.
About
Kong builds connectivity infrastructure for APIs, AI models, and events. The platform sits in front of LLM, MCP, and API traffic to handle routing, security, rate limiting, and cost control. Kong Konnect is the unified product; underneath are Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Event Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Kong Insomnia (API design and testing).
Customers include Wayfair, ING Bank, Sony Interactive Entertainment, United Airlines, Nasdaq, HSBC, BMW, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, and Mistral AI. The platform handles over a trillion API and AI requests per day across roughly 900 customers, with a community of 160K+ around the open-source gateway.
Founded by Augusto Marietti (CEO) and Marco Palladino (CTO). 600+ employees across 25+ countries, fully remote. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, CRV, GGV Capital, Tiger Global, and Jeff Bezos. Stated mission: helping today's developers build tomorrow's technology.