About Kong
The AI Connectivity Company
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Company type
- Privately Held
No AI without APIs.
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer for AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic - on any model, any cloud.
Specialties
- API gateway
- AI Gateway
- API Management
- LLM traffic governance
- API security
- Semantic Caching
- API lifecycle management
- multi-LLM routing
- API rate limiting
- token budget management
- API monetization
- prompt injection prevention
- API traffic control
- API traffic management
- LLM load balancing
- API observability
- AI cost governance
- declarative API configuration
- AI observability
- API developer portal
- agentic AI infrastructure
- model context protocol
- agent-to-agent governance
- A2A governance
- MCP
- MCP Gateway
- Agent Gateway
- multi-agent orchestration
- AI data path security
- usage-based pricing
- usage metering and billing
- event gateway
- Kafka protocol proxy
- event-driven architecture
- event stream governance
- service mesh
- zero-trust networking
- microservices connectivity
- envoy-based infrastructure
- Kubernetes Ingress Controller
- Kubernetes Gateway API
- hybrid cloud deployment
- multi-cloud API management
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC Authentication
- SAML SSO
- zero-trust security
- API access control
- role-based access control
- RBAC
- API design
- API testing
- API debugging
- OpenAPI
- AsyncAPI
- and API entitlements
Company locations
44 Montgomery St, San Francisco, California 94104, US
Chicago, Illinois 60610, US
London, GB
Singapore, SG
Shanghai, CN
Beijing, CN
Bangalore, IN
Pune, IN
Tokyo, JP
Budapest, HU
Paris, FR
Milan, IT
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Business areas
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Data Services
- Developer APIs
- Enterprise Software
- Open Source
- SaaS
- Software
- Software Development
- Information Technology
On LinkedIn
- Followers
- 87,452
- People linked to this company
- 1,085
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Funding raised
344,101,000 USD
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