Kong

Kong is the cloud connectivity company building the connectivity layer for the AI era. Its flagship product, Kong Gateway, is the world's most widely deployed open-source API gateway, enabling organizations to manage, secure, and scale API traffic across microservices, cloud-native, and AI workloads. Kong provides a unified control plane for APIs, AI models, events, and agentic systems — supporting protocols from REST to gRPC, WebSocket, and MCP. Enterprises and developers worldwide rely on Kong to enforce authentication, rate limiting, observability, and traffic management policies at the edge. Kong also offers Kong Konnect, a cloud-native SaaS platform, and a Kubernetes-native ingress controller for container environments. The company was originally founded as Mashape, the marketplace that spawned Kong, before pivoting to focus exclusively on API infrastructure.