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Augusto Marietti is the Co-founder and CEO of Kong Inc., an open-source API management and cloud software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before establishing Kong, he co-founded Mashape, a pioneering API marketplace that originated in Italy before relocating the business to Silicon Valley to scale its operations. Under his executive leadership, Kong has reached a $3.3 billion valuation following a $175 million Series E funding round in October 2024, backed by prominent venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Marietti initially studied Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship, and he now operates as an active angel investor backing early-stage technology startups. His current professional focus centers on scaling enterprise software, advancing microservices, and expanding global cloud infrastructure solutions for modern developer ecosystems.
