Kong has announced its oversubscribed Series E financing, achieving a $2 billion valuation with $175 million raised in both primary and secondary funding, led by Tiger Global and new investor Balderton, along with participation from other prominent investors. This round marks a nearly 45% increase in valuation from the previous round, reflecting strong investor confidence in Kong's vision to dominate the API landscape. The funding will be used to enhance product innovation, expand API runtimes like AI Gateway, advance AI-infused applications, and support open-source projects, alongside global expansion efforts targeting markets such as Japan and India. Kong aims to become the universal broker of API traffic, creating a consolidated API inventory for customers, enabling a unified experience in API management, security, and observability, and positioning every company to become an API company. The transition to machine-based services via APIs, driven by the growth of cloud computing, digital devices, and generative AI, underscores the massive opportunity ahead, necessitating new networking infrastructure and fueling Kong's mission to support the AI era.