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Top 25 Application Server Software Companies (August 2026)

As of August 2026, Latka tracks 25 application server software companies. They have combined revenues of $241M and employ 1.6K people. They have raised $646.8M and serve 400M customers combined.

Every company below sells application server software to other businesses and is ranked by its most recent annual revenue. Revenue, funding, headcount and customer figures come from CEO interviews on the Latka podcast, public company filings, and Latka estimates where a company has not disclosed a number.

What Application Server Software Companies do

Application server software is designed to create, host, and manage web applications. It serves as a middleware platform that acts as the bridge between client applications and backend databases, facilitating communication and data exchange. Common use cases include web applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and real-time collaboration tools. Typical features of application server software include transaction management, security protocols, load balancing, and integration capabilities with various data sources. This software is primarily used by IT departments, developers, and system administrators who need to deploy and maintain complex applications while ensuring high availability and performance.

Companies
25
Revenue
$241M
Funding
$646.8M
Employees
1.6K

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Sorting: Highest -> Lowest

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Top Application Server Software Companies by revenue

Showing 10 of 25 companies ranked by annual revenue.

1Kong Inc logo
Kong Inc

San Francisco, California, United States

Cloud-native API Gateway and API Middleware

Revenue
$146.1M
Customers
130
Year founded
2009
Funding
$344.3M
Team size
879
2render.com logo
render.com

San Francisco, California, United States

Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Revenue
$19.3M
Year founded
2018
Team size
130
3Lightbend logo
Lightbend

San Francisco, California, United States

Lightbend is a developer of an application development platform to build software applications. The company provides software development tools for programming languages. It also provides software platform for hardware and cloud computing workloads. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company seeks to acquire businesses through mergers, acquisitions and investments which would help the firm to expand and consolidate its presence in the industry.

Revenue
$17.7M
Customers
400M
Year founded
2011
Funding
$77.1M
Team size
79
4Solo.io logo
Solo.io

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Provider of open source interface projects intended to bring innovative cloud technologies to the enterprises. The company provides all the tools needed to glue together traditional and cloud-native apps, from monoliths to microservices and Serverless, enabling enterprise to migrate and gradually transform legacy applications to new architectures.

Revenue
$15M
Customers
4K
Year founded
2017
Funding
$171.5M
Team size
272
5Wing Cloud logo
Wing Cloud

Tel-Aviv, Israel

Driven by the understanding that much of the cloud's complexity is rooted in current programming paradigms, Wing Cloud is an abstraction layer which spans cloud providers and services, and unifies infrastructure and application code into a single programming and operational model. Wing Cloud enables teams to deliver cloud software faster and more securely, and increase independence and autonomy of both developers and platform teams. Our solutions include the open-source programming language Winglang, as well as tools and services to allow teams to build, run, debug, and test complete cloud applications on cloud providers and a local simulation.

Revenue
$10.6M
Year founded
2022
Funding
$20M
Team size
17
6Okteto logo
Okteto

San Francisco, California, United States

The missing application development platform for Kubernetes

Revenue
$5M
Year founded
2019
Team size
21
7VirtaMove logo
VirtaMove

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Developer of subscription-based application software designed to make windows applications migration more efficient than manual methods. The company's application software automatically migrates Windows applications to a newer operating system, to new in-house servers or cloud environments, enabling users to move applications from an old OS to a newer one, and to modernize and move to the cloud efficiently.

Revenue
$4.3M
Year founded
2003
Funding
$3M
Team size
9
8traefik.io logo
traefik.io

San Francisco, California, United States

Traefik Labs helps organizations adopt and scale cloud-native architectures by providing a modern, intuitive, and open platform that reimagines application connectivity and API management, paving the way for seamless operations and enhanced productivity. Traefik’s flagship open source project, Traefik Proxy, is used by the world’s largest enterprises and is one of Docker Hub’s top 10 projects, with over 3 billion downloads. Founded in 2016, Traefik Labs is backed by investors including Balderton Capital, Elaia, 360 Capital Partner, and Kima Ventures.

Revenue
$3.9M
Year founded
2016
Team size
35
9Cloudsoft Corporation logo
Cloudsoft Corporation

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Provider of open source software designed to securely migrate, run and evolve applications in the cloud. The company's software offers development, deployment and runtime management of distributed applications, enabling clients to reduce costs, increase uptimes, improve performance and responsiveness and continuously exploit the pace of AWS innovation.

Revenue
$3.1M
Year founded
2009
Funding
$2.1M
Team size
45
10Buoyant logo
Buoyant

San Francisco, California, United States

Provider of an open source software designed to make cloud-native software faster, scalable, reliable and more secure. The company's software specializes in hosting activities, such as web hosting, streaming services or application hosting, as well as provides application service provisioning, enabling engineers, SREs and DevOps teams to build innovative, reliable and secure software.

Revenue
$3M
Year founded
2015
Funding
$24M
Team size
28

Frequently asked questions about Application Server Software Companies

How many application server software companies are there?

Latka tracks 25 application server software companies with reported revenue. Together they generate $241M in annual revenue and employ 1.6K people.

Which application server software company is the largest?

Kong Inc is the largest, with $146.1M in annual revenue, founded in 2009.

How much revenue does a typical application server software company make?

The average application server software company in this list makes $9.6M a year, across 25 companies with reported revenue. They serve 400M customers combined.

Who are the leading Application Server software vendors?

Ranked by annual revenue, the leaders are Kong Inc, render.com, Lightbend, Solo.io and Wing Cloud.

How much funding have application server software companies raised?

The 25 application server software companies tracked here have raised $646.8M in disclosed funding between them.

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Inclusion Criteria

- Must provide a platform for deploying and managing web applications. - Must support dynamic content generation and manage user sessions. - Must include features for transaction management and security enforcement. - Must enable integration with multiple data sources and services. - Not just for static content delivery; must also handle complex business logic.