Tech Company Financing Transactions

Kong Funding Round

Tiger Global Management, Andreessen Horowitz and CRV participated in a $100 million Series D funding round for Kong. The round was announced on 2/9/2021.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Kong
Announced On
2/9/2021
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$100,000,000
Round
Series D
Investors

Tiger Global Management (Lead Investor)

Andreessen Horowitz (Martin Casado)

CRV (Devdutt Yellurkar)

GGV Capital (Glenn Solomon)

Goldman Sachs

Index Ventures (Michael Volpi )

Proceeds Purpose
The company intends to use the funds to scale its go-to-market operations, grow its Engineering and Customer Experience teams.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
150 Spear St. 1600
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone
628-243-7512
Website
www.konghq.com
Email Address
[email protected]
Overview
Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today's hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever. We power trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally through our end-to-end API platform.
Profile
Kong LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Kong Company Twitter Account
Company News
Kong News
Facebook
Kong on Facebook
YouTube
Kong on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Augusto Marietti
  Augusto Marietti LinkedIn Profile  Augusto Marietti Twitter Account  Augusto Marietti News  Augusto Marietti on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Marco Palladino
  Marco Palladino LinkedIn Profile  Marco Palladino Twitter Account  Marco Palladino News  Marco Palladino on Facebook
VP - Bus. Development
Ken Kim
  Ken Kim LinkedIn Profile  Ken Kim Twitter Account  Ken Kim News  Ken Kim on Facebook
VP - Engineering
Geoff Townsend
  Geoff Townsend LinkedIn Profile  Geoff Townsend Twitter Account  Geoff Townsend News  Geoff Townsend on Facebook
VP - Human Resources
Janet Phillips
  Janet Phillips LinkedIn Profile  Janet Phillips Twitter Account  Janet Phillips News  Janet Phillips on Facebook
VP - Product Management
Reza Shafii
  Reza Shafii LinkedIn Profile  Reza Shafii Twitter Account  Reza Shafii News  Reza Shafii on Facebook
VP - Sales
David Pieterse
  David Pieterse LinkedIn Profile  David Pieterse Twitter Account  David Pieterse News  David Pieterse on Facebook

 

 

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