Kong

Kong provides a unified platform for API and AI adoption, covering API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes and ingress controllers for cloud-native environments.

Kong builds a unified platform for companies that want to adopt AI securely and become API-first. Its products span API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes and ingress controllers, addressing the challenge of connecting services securely and reliably in cloud-native environments. The company's technology covers API management, API security, cloud-native infrastructure and developer productivity tooling, and it operates worldwide.

The product line is led by Kong API Gateway, described as the world's most adopted API gateway. Alongside it sit Kong AI Gateway, which brings AI adoption into the same platform, Kong Service Mesh for secure service-to-service connectivity, Kong Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes traffic management, and the Kong Cloud API Platform, a cloud offering aimed at developer productivity, security and performance at scale.

The company reports powering hundreds of billions of API calls a day and counts more than 700 enterprise customers worldwide. Its teams work across fields including API gateways, service mesh, AI gateways and cloud API platforms. Kong began life as Mashape before rebranding, and describes itself as a team of engineers and problem-solvers focused on fundamental connectivity challenges.