Confluent

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Confluent
Company type Public
ISIN US20717M1036
Industry Information technology
FoundedSeptember 23, 2014;10 years ago (2014-09-23) in Silicon Valley, U.S.
Founders
Headquarters Mountain View, California, 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
RevenueIncrease2.svgUS$$0.777 billion (2023)
Decrease2.svgUS$−0.443 billion (2023)
Number of employees
2,744 (2023)
Website confluent.io

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.

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

References

  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.