Kong, formerly Mashape, is a software company offering open source platforms and cloud services for Application Programming Interface (API) and Microservices. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2007 by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino. The company rebranded as Kong, from Mashape, in October 2017. Ahead of its rebranding exercise, Mashape/Kong sold off its API marketplace to RapidAPI.
On April 1, 2010 Kong completed an angel funding round with $101,000 in funding from Massimo Sgrelli, Kevin Donahue, Dwipal Desai, and David Estrada.
On August 15, 2011 Kong completed a seed funding round with $1.5 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, Charles River Ventures, Ignition Partners, Innovation Endeavours, Mucker Capital, Jeff Bezos, Erik Rannala, Russel Siegelman, Mike Voipi, Lars Kamp, and Rick Webb.
On November 21, 2013 Kong completed their series A funding round with $6.5 million in funding from Index Ventures (lead investor), Stanford University, and CRV.
On March 23, 2017 Kong completed their series B funding round with $18 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and CRV.
On March 28, 2019 Kong completed their series C funding round with $43 million in funding from Index Ventures (lead investor), World Innovation Lab, GGV Capital, CRV, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Timeline
Users can use Kong Cloud platform for securing, connecting and orchestrating APIs.
Funding rounds
People
Ahmad Nassri
Employee
Augusto Marietti
Founder
Brigitte Boyles
Employee
Christina Ng
Employee
Cooper Marcus
Employee
Cuong Le
Employee
Devdutt Yellurkar
Board member
Dwipal Desai
Investor
Emily Graff
Employee
Erik Rannala
Investor
Janet Phillips
Employee
Jitachi Garcia
Employee
John K
Employee
Lars Kamp
Investor
Linda Vo
Employee
Marco Palladino
Founder
Massimo Sgrelli
Investor
Michele Zonca
Founder
Mike Volpi
Board member
Morgan Davies
Employee
Nicole Bantique
Employee
Oz Haven
Employee
Robyn Mironov
Employee
Russell Siegelman
Investor
Shashi Ranjan
Employee
Further reading
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How to implement an API Gateway & JSON Web Token (JWT) Based Authentication for EdgeX Foundry - EdgeX Foundry
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Kong Raises $43 Million to Connect the Next Era of Software - KongHQ
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Managing microservices and APIs with Kong and Konga
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