Confluent, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Confluent was founded by Jay Kreps, Jun Rao and Neha Narkhede on September 23, 2014, in order to commercialize an open-source streaming platform Apache Kafka, created by the same founders while working at LinkedIn in 2008 as a B2B infrastructure company.[1][2] Confluent's products are the Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors, Apache Flink, Stream Governance and Confluent Hub.

Confluent, Inc.
Company typePublic
ISINUS20717M1036
IndustryInformation technology
FoundedSeptember 23, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-09-23) in Silicon Valley, U.S.
Founders
Headquarters899 West Evelyn Ave., ,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Jay Kreps (CEO)
  • Jun Rao
  • Erica Ruliffson Schultz (president of Field Operations)
Products
Services
  • Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Platform
RevenueIncrease US$$0.777 billion (2023)
Decrease US$−0.443 billion (2023)
Number of employees
2,744 (2023)
Websiteconfluent.io

Corporation has filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021, with evaluation of $4.5 billion.[3]


References

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  1. ^ "Confluent, the foundational platform for data-in-motion". Battery. June 24, 2021.
  2. ^ "Neha Narkhede changing the face of superstar developers (she co-created Apache Kafka and Confluent!)". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  3. ^ "Confluent's IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets". Tech Crunch. June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
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