Kong

Kong provides a unified platform of API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes and ingress controllers for secure cloud-native connectivity and API management.

Kong builds a unified platform for API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes and ingress controllers. The company describes its purpose as providing the foundation that enables any company to securely adopt AI and become API-first, covering cloud-native connectivity, API management and API security across its product line.

Its flagship product, Kong API Gateway, provides secure and reliable service connectivity in cloud-native environments and powers hundreds of billions of API calls daily. The wider portfolio includes the Kong Cloud API Platform, an AI Gateway supporting secure AI adoption, a service mesh for connecting services, and an ingress controller for Kubernetes and other cloud-native deployments. Kong serves more than 700 enterprise customers worldwide.

The company's engineering culture emphasises developer productivity, security and performance at scale, with teams focused on the fundamental problems of connecting services securely and reliably. Kong holds the view that APIs are the lifeblood of modern software. The firm began life as Mashape before rebranding to Kong. Technical work spans cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems and AI connectivity, across a global footprint.