Gravitee

What Gravitee does

Gravitee is a privately held, venture-backed software company providing a unified platform for API management, event stream management, and AI agent governance, serving 350+ enterprise customers across financial services, retail, manufacturing, postal/logistics, government, healthcare, insurance, software/SaaS, education, and telecom/media. Originally founded in Lille, France (with the operating year reported as 2015 in 2025 sources and 2016 in 2021 French sources), Gravitee has since relocated its headquarters to Denver, USA, and operates across 20+ countries with reference customers including Michelin, Roche, Blue Yonder, Auchan, Tide, Posten Bring, Swiss Post, RATP Group, Walmart, Schneider Electric, Volkswagen, BMW, SKF, Xylem, EY, monday.com, Munich Airport, Tealium, and MC (Sonae).

The company's technology is built on open-source foundations (Java-based Gravitee Gateway) and combines four pillars on a single control plane: API Management (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, WebSocket), Event Management (native Kafka Gateway with protocol mediation, virtual topics, and ACL policies), AI Agent Management (Gamma Platform launched June 2026, with AI Gateway, AI Catalog, AI Security, AI Studio, and MCP/A2A governance using Cedar-based policy language), and Federated API Management for cross-platform governance across Kong, Apigee, AWS, Azure, and MuleSoft. Notable proprietary components include the first Kafka Console natively powered by a Kafka Gateway (Gravitee 4.9, October 2025), Zero-Trust API security, and integrations with Confluent, AWS MSK, Microsoft Azure, Solace, Keycloak, Okta, ElasticSearch, and Datadog. The July 2025 acquisition of Ambassador Labs added Kubernetes-native Edge Stack and Blackbird developer tools.

Gravitee generates revenue primarily through enterprise subscription licensing of its platform (with pricing gated behind "Get Pricing" and "Speak to an Engineer" CTAs) and a managed Gravitee Gateway Service starting at $2,500/month. The company employs a hybrid go-to-market combining direct enterprise field sales, an open-source and community-led motion (Slack, Discourse, GitHub, Gravitee Certification program, A2A Summit), channel partnerships with systems integrators (Blue Altair), and cloud marketplace distribution (Microsoft Azure). Cumulative funding exceeds $125 million across a 2021 Series A ($11M, AlbionVC and Oxx), a 2022 round ($30M, Riverside Acceleration Capital), and a May 2025 Series C ($60M, led by Sixth Street Growth). Gravitee has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management in both 2024 and 2025.

Name

Gravitee

Legal name

Gravitee.io

Website

https://gravitee.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Gravitee provides a unified API, event, and AI agent management platform serving 350+ enterprises across financial services, retail, manufacturing, government, and logistics. Its Gamma Platform secures and governs AI agents, APIs, and Kafka event streams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

API Management Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platforms (HDAAAMAA), Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platforms (BPAEAPAA), Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Managed Services (BPAEADAJ)

Keywords

• API management platform
• Event-native API gateway
• AI agent governance
• Kafka protocol mediation
• Federated API management

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Managed API Gateway Subscription: Recurring managed service pricing starting at $2,500/month, including enterprise support, infrastructure, and platform updates; described as a flat-rate-style offering to reduce TCO versus self-hosted deployments.
2. Enterprise Platform Subscription: Enterprise licensing of the Gravitee platform (Gamma/AI Agent Management, API Management, Event Management) typically sold via "Get Pricing" / "Speak to an Engineer" motions, including support, certification, and advanced features.
3. Open-Source / Freemium Adoption: Free open-source distribution of Gravitee (Docker/Kubernetes/ZIP downloads) drives community adoption and developer mindshare, with a 14-day free trial of the cloud version (cloud.gravitee.io) feeding the enterprise funnel.
4. Implementation & Managed Services: Partner-delivered deployment, migration, onboarding, and managed services for Gravitee platforms, monetized through systems integrators like Blue Altair.
5. Professional Services & Training: Training, certification programs, and consulting referenced through the Gravitee Certification program and Services & Support offerings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Gravitee sells an event-native API management platform that unifies API design, access, deployment, and security with native Kafka event gateway and AI Agent Management capabilities under a single Gamma control plane. The platform supports REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, SOAP, and Kafka protocols with protocol mediation, federated governance across third-party gateways (Kong, Apigee, AWS, Azure, MuleSoft), zero-trust Cedar-based authorization, and native governance of AI agents via MCP and A2A protocols. It is sold as enterprise subscriptions, a fully managed SaaS starting at $2,500/month, and a free open-source distribution.

Product overview

Gravitee's offering is a single unified platform (Gamma Platform) that integrates four main pillars: API Management, Event Management (Kafka Gateway), AI Agent Management, and Authorization/Identity Management. The core Gamma Platform consolidates the AI Gateway, AI Catalog, AI Security, AI Studio, API Gateway, API Observability, API Governance, Developer Portal, Event Gateway, Protocol Mediation, Authorization Management, and Identity & Access Management into one control plane. Federated API Management extends governance across third-party gateways and brokers, while Edge Stack and Blackbird (acquired from Ambassador Labs) add Kubernetes-native ingress. Pricing for the managed offering starts at $2,500 per month.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Gamma Platform: Gravitee's unified AI Agent Management platform combining AI gateway, model context protocol catalogue, and authorization layer for governing AI agents, APIs, and events.
• Edge Stack
• Blackbird

Products and services

• Gamma Platform (AI Agent Management) Unified AI Agent Management platform that combines an AI gateway, Model Context Protocol (MCP) catalogue, and Cedar-based authorization layer to secure, observe, and productize AI agents, APIs, and event interactions for enterprise customers.
• Federated API Management Unified management layer that lets enterprises govern APIs across multiple third-party API gateways and event brokers (Kong, Apigee, AWS, Azure, MuleSoft) from a single Gravitee console, combating API sprawl without rip-and-replace.
• Event Management (Kafka Gateway) Native Kafka event gateway that exposes Kafka topics as managed APIs with full policy studio support, virtual topics, ACL policies, authentication mediation (SASL/PLAIN, SCRAM, OAuth 2.0, JWT), and protocol mediation (e.g., Kafka to WebSocket, REST, MCP).
• Edge Stack (acquired from Ambassador Labs) Kubernetes-native API gateway acquired from Ambassador Labs in July 2025, expanding Gravitee's North American footprint and adding Kubernetes-native ingress capabilities to the platform portfolio.
• Blackbird (acquired from Ambassador Labs) Developer experience tool acquired from Ambassador Labs in July 2025, part of Gravitee's expansion into North American developer tooling and Kubernetes-native API workflows.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4x faster API gateway
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers33 records

Segments11 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration18 records

AI capability11 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and flagship.

• Blue AltaircoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 23 June 2026Strategic partnership announced in June 2026 where Blue Altair will serve as a systems integrator and implementation partner for Gravitee's Gamma platform. Blue Altair provides deployment, migration, onboarding, and managed services, while Gravitee provides Blue Altair's clients with API and AI agent governance capabilities. The partnership targets fragmented API landscapes, inconsistent governance, legacy integration patterns, and emerging AI-related risks across enterprises.
• NVIDIAcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 December 2025Co-sponsor (with Microsoft and WeTransact) of the Agentic Launchpad program supporting AI innovation; Gravitee was selected as one of 13 companies for the program.
• WeTransactminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 December 2025Co-sponsor (with Microsoft and NVIDIA) of the Agentic Launchpad program that selected Gravitee as a participating AI innovator.
• MicrosoftflagshipTechnology or Integration · 17 November 2025Strategic partnership enabling Gravitee to deploy its platform on Microsoft Azure, helping enterprises govern, monitor, and secure AI agent ecosystems. Provides Gravitee with access to Microsoft's ecosystem and marketplace channels and underpins participation in the Microsoft Agentic Launchpad program with NVIDIA and WeTransact.
• GooglecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 11 November 2025Backed Gravitee's inaugural A2A Summit alongside Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, signalling ecosystem alignment around Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol for autonomous AI agent governance.
• Linux FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 November 2025Backed Gravitee's inaugural A2A Summit alongside Google and Microsoft, supporting industry efforts to establish governance frameworks and standards for autonomous AI agents.
• Ambassador LabscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 July 2025Acquired by Gravitee in July 2025 to expand its North American footprint and product portfolio with Ambassador Labs' developer tools (Edge Stack and Blackbird).
• SolacecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration between Solace Event Portal and Gravitee Federated API Management, enabling joint design-time and runtime governance of event APIs alongside REST APIs. Allows developers to discover, subscribe to, and consume event APIs from Gravitee's developer portal, with unified OAuth2-based access control via Gravitee Access Management.
• ConfluentcoreTechnology or IntegrationConfluent Cloud (hosted Kafka) is referenced as a primary integration target for Gravitee's Kafka Gateway, including protocol mediation from Confluent Kafka topics to WebSocket APIs and SASL_SSL/PLAIN authentication patterns.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Kong: Kong is a leading open-source API gateway and service mesh vendor with an enterprise platform (Kong Konnect) targeting the same API management buyers Gravitee serves. Gravitee explicitly publishes a vs Kong comparison page, underscoring direct competition for REST/gRPC/GraphQL API gateway workloads.
• Tyk: Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management vendor targeting enterprises with hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Gravitee publishes a vs Tyk comparison, reflecting direct overlap on open-core API management for developer-led adoption.

Broad incumbents

• Google Apigee: Apigee is Google's enterprise API management platform, bundled within Google Cloud. Gravitee has publicly displaced Apigee at MC (Sonae), positioning head-to-head against Apigee for hybrid multi-cloud API management at large enterprises.
• MuleSoft (Salesforce): MuleSoft is Salesforce's API management and integration platform (Anypoint Platform) serving large enterprises. Gravitee competes with MuleSoft for unified API and integration governance, and Gravitee publishes a vs MuleSoft comparison page.
• Microsoft Azure API Management: Azure API Management is Microsoft's cloud-native API gateway and governance service, bundled within the Azure ecosystem. Despite Gravitee's Microsoft partnership on Azure for AI agent governance, the two products directly compete for Azure-resident API workloads.
• AWS API Gateway: AWS API Gateway is Amazon's managed API gateway service, deeply integrated with the AWS ecosystem. Gravitee competes against AWS for cloud-native API management and publishes a vs AWS comparison page highlighting federation and multi-cloud governance.
• Boomi: Boomi is a broad integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) provider with API management capabilities, owned by Francisco Partners. Boomi competes with Gravitee for enterprise API and integration governance, particularly in mid-market and large enterprise deals.

Emerging players

• Solo.io: Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway tooling (Gloo) targeting Kubernetes-native and AI workloads. Solo.io overlaps with Gravitee's Gateway, Federation, and emerging AI Gateway product surfaces for cloud-native enterprise buyers.
• Confluent: Confluent is the primary commercial vendor behind Apache Kafka and the Confluent Cloud streaming platform. Gravitee integrates with Confluent Kafka but also competes for Kafka governance, ACLs, and topic exposure via its native Kafka Gateway.
• Postman: Postman is the leading API collaboration and testing platform, expanding into API governance and observability with Postman Enterprise. It overlaps with Gravitee's API design, developer portal, and governance surfaces for developer-led enterprise adoption.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/graviteeio
• GitHubgithub.com/gravitee-io
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/Graviteesource
• Facebookfacebook.com/GraviteeSource
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gravitee-io
• Instagraminstagram.com/gravitee.io

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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