Kong

San Francisco

Operator of an API platform designed to manage, monitor and scale application programming interface and micro-services. The company's platform offers an application programming interface (API) that includes API gateways, developer portals and API analytics, enabling development teams to distribute, monetize, manage, analyze and consume APIs.

Kong's valuation today

Estimated valuation today

$1.6B

+11.24% since last round

Calculated based on estimated multiplier and revenue.

Estimated multiplier for Kong

20.81x revenue

Calculated based on public comps and hype multiple.

Revenue

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million

Hype Multiple

Currently selected comps have a median growth rate of 24.30%

This premium represents how much of a bonus the company receives on its valuation for its additional growth compared to the selected public comps. The valuation is multipled by the Hype Multiple to get the final valuation. You can read more about this from a16z.

multiple

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Last round

The last round was 2 years ago.

Date

February 2021

Valuation

$1.4B

Amount raised

$101M

Public market comparisons

We estimate company valuation by comparing it to similiar companies in the public market. The revenue multipler is calculated by taking a company's current valuation and dividing it by its total revenue.

Multiple at last round

32.46x revenue

Today's multiple

13.87x revenue

Change

-57.27%

Companies

Industry – Enterprise Software

Last updated 5 mins ago.

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Kong

13.87x
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11.53x
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ADSK

10.28x
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6.55x
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SNOW

35.55x
Cloudflare Inc

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23.84x
Valuation history
Fundraising rounds
DateRound Amount raised
Price per share (Preferred)
Valuation
Feb 2021Series D$100.6MM$8.69$1.41B
Mar 2019Series C$54.7MM$3.29$470MM
Mar 2017Series B$20.76MM$0.68$110MM
Nov 2013Series A$8.5MM$0.27$45MM
Aug 2011Series Seed$1.01MM$0.11$17MM

With a revenue of $75M and a Hype Multiple of 1.5x,
Kong is estimated to be worth $1.6B.