Kong

Kong builds a unified platform for API and AI infrastructure, covering API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes and ingress controllers. The company's stated purpose is to help organisations adopt AI securely and become API-first. It operates in cloud-native infrastructure, API management, microservices connectivity and API security, and sells to enterprises in software, cloud infrastructure and API-driven digital businesses worldwide.

The product line includes Kong Gateway, described as the world's most adopted API gateway, which connects services securely and reliably in cloud-native environments. Kong AI Gateway provides gateway capabilities for secure AI adoption. Kong Mesh is a service mesh for secure, reliable service-to-service connectivity; Kong Ingress Controller handles Kubernetes and cloud-native traffic management; and the Kong Cloud API Platform delivers these capabilities as a managed cloud service.

The platform is used to power hundreds of billions of API calls a day and counts more than 700 enterprise customers worldwide. Engineering work spans performance at scale, security and developer productivity in distributed systems.

The company began life as Mashape and later rebranded as Kong. Its team is described as engineers and problem-solvers organised around a mission of connecting services securely and reliably in cloud-native environments; the guiding premise is that APIs are the lifeblood of modern software.