Kong
Open-source API gateway and enterprise API management platform (open-core model) that helps companies manage, secure, and govern APIs across their infrastructure.
Est. Valuation
$100M
$100,020,000 · 5× ARR estimate
Monthly Revenue (MRR)
$1.7M
$1,667,000/mo
Annual Revenue (ARR)
$20M
$20,004,000/yr
Employees
140
Founded
2012
Kong Revenue History
Revenue history for Kong from 2019 to 2026.
| Year | MRR | ARR | YoY Growth | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,667,000 | $20,000,000 | — | Sep 2019 |
How Kong Makes Money
Kong Funding
Kong is fully bootstrapped with no outside funding. The company has grown to $20,004,000 ARR organically.
Kong Founders
Augusto Marietti
CEO & Co-founder
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How We Estimate Kong's Revenue & Valuation
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- Self-reported — numbers publicly shared by the founder on X, blog posts, or interviews.
- Estimated — derived from publicly available signals (traffic, employee count, pricing, comparables).
Valuation follows a hierarchy: public companies use the live market cap; private companies with disclosed funding rounds use the last reported valuation; otherwise we apply a conservative 5× ARR multiple as an estimate. Multiples vary by business model — SaaS typically sits 5–7×, profitable bootstrapped operations 3–5×, consumer brands 1–3×, marketplaces 8–12×.
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