Kong

Kong Inc. develops API and AI connectivity software, including Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Event Gateway, the Kong Konnect managed control plane, the Insomnia API testing tool, and Kong Metering & Billing. The products cover API management, service mesh, AI traffic governance (LLM, MCP and agent requests) and event streams from one control plane.

Customers are enterprise engineering and platform teams; the website cites United Airlines as a customer. Kong Gateway is open source, and the company sells Konnect subscriptions: a Plus AI Management tier starting at $25 per month plus usage, and custom annually billed Enterprise plans, with dedicated and hybrid gateway options.

Kong was founded in Milan in 2009 as Mashape by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino and later renamed around its open-source API gateway. The website states that Kong has 600+ employees in 25+ countries, reports surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue by late 2023, and cites a $175 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation. Open roles listed on the careers page include account executives, account development representatives, solutions and technical support engineers, technical writers and product managers, located mainly in the US, UK, Italy, India, Poland, France and the UAE.

Product: Kong Konnect unified platform with Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Event Gateway, Insomnia and usage-based metering and billing for API, AI and event traffic.