Inferact vs Kong
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$150M seed at $800M valuation in Jan 2026, led by a16z and Lightspeed. Commercializes the open-source vLLM inference engine for enterprise LLM serving.
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Inferact commercializes vLLM, the most widely used open-source LLM inference engine, for enterprise deployments. The company provides a managed platform, premium performance optimizations, and enterprise support around the open core, targeting teams that need high-throughput, cost-efficient inference at production scale.
Open-source API gateway with enterprise platform; raised $170M+; built on NGINX handling authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, and security as a horizontal layer; AI gateway capabilities add emerging LLM traffic management for multi-cloud API environments.
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Kong is an enterprise API management and service connectivity platform providing an API gateway, service mesh, and developer portal for organizations managing hundreds of microservices and APIs. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Kong open-sourced its core gateway technology (Kong Gateway, built on NGINX and Lua/Go) which has become one of the most widely deployed API gateways globally, creating a large community and commercial base. The company has raised over $170 million in total funding from investors including Index Ventures, GGV Capital, and others.
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