Kong Stock
Open-Source API Gateway
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About Kong Stock
Kong powers API & microservices with the world's popular open-source API Gateway and industry-leading Enterprise solutions including Kong Enterprise. Funded by tier 1 VC firms including Index Ventures, A16Z, NEA, CRV, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Eric Schmidt (Google), GGV.
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
Lyft, Robinhood, Databricks, Airbnb, Instacart, Stripe, Magic Leap, Anduril Industries, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber
CRV
DoorDash, Airtable, Bird, Fair, Cybereason, Twitter, Niantic, ClassPass, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Freenome
Goldman Sachs
WeWork, Alibaba, Spotify, Compass, Pinterest, Bloom Energy, Oscar Health, Circle, Ramp, Automation Anywhere
Ignition Partners
DocuSign, Cloudera, Aviatrix, Icertis, Couchbase, SnapLogic, Trifacta, Kong, Avvo, Motif
Index Ventures
Robinhood, Bird, Slack, Discord, Deliveroo, Pure Storage, ServiceTitan, Coalition, Cockroach Labs, Scale AI
Innovation Endeavors
Plenty, Zymergen, Getaround, Freenome, Course Hero, Yotpo, HomeLight, Blockstream, fabric, Mark43
Mucker Capital
New Enterprise Associates
Robinhood, Databricks, Jet, TAE Technologies, Scopely, Bloom Energy, Opendoor, Radiology Partners, DataRobot, Tempus
Stanford University
Alchemy, Ethos, Jeeves, Skyryse, Aryaka Networks, Kong, Eight Sleep, EdCast, Sandbox VR, Autogrid
Tiger Global Management
Flipkart, Delhivery, Ather Energy, Databricks, Grab, Chime, Ola, Quikr, Palantir Technologies, CoinSwitch Kuber
World Innovation Lab (WiL)
DataRobot, Automation Anywhere, Unqork, Auth0, Algolia, ClearMotion, Sendbird, Kong, PeerStreet, Birdeye
Funding History
| September 2011 | $1.0M |
|---|---|
| November 2013 | $8.5M |
| December 2016 | $20.8M |
| December 2018 | $54.7M |
| December 2020 | $101M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Augusto Marietti
Chief Technology Officer
Marco Palladino
Press
hackernoon - Mar, 14 2022
Kong Plugins as Microservices: Writing a Single-Plugin Server for Kong in Goitprotoday - Feb, 10 2022
Kong Enterprise 2.7 Advances Cloud-Native API Managementaithority - Feb, 9 2022
Kong Releases Even Faster Cloud Native API Management Platform to Power the Connected EnterpriseKongHQ - Mar, 17 2021
With a Two-Year Revenue Growth of 618%, Kong Inc. Ranks No. 29 on Inc. Magazine’s List of California’s Fastest-Growing Private Companieskonghq - Feb, 8 2021
Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud ConnectivityKongHQ - Aug, 26 2020
Kong Unveils First Cloud Native API Platform Built for DevOps-Driven Automation Across Hybrid EnvironmentsKongHQ - Jul, 29 2020
Xinja Banks on Kong Enterprise to Power Digital Banking PlatformKongHQ - May, 4 2020
Kong Achieves AWS Lambda Ready DesignationTechCrunch - Oct, 2 2019
Kong acquires Insomnia, launches Kong Studio for API developmentTechCrunch - Mar, 28 2019
Kong raises $43M Series C for its API platformprnewswire - Dec, 13 2018
Kong Hits Record Growth in 2018prnewswire - Sep, 18 2018
Kong Inc. Launches Kong 1.0, the Only Open Source API Platform Purpose Built for Microservices, Cloud-Native and Serverless Architecturesprnewswire - Aug, 28 2018
Kong Announces Support for Service Mesh Deploymentsdatacenterknowledge - Mar, 23 2017
Mashape, Creator of Top Open Source API Management Tool Kong, Raises $18Mzdnet - Jun, 24 2015
Kong firm Mashape unveils real-time analytics for APIs and microservices | ZDNetTechCrunch - Jun, 24 2015
Mashape Launches API Analytics PlatformEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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