Confluent, Inc. is an American
technology company
A technology company (or tech company) is a company that focuses primarily on the manufacturing, support, research and development of—most commonly computing, telecommunication and consumer electronics–based—technology-intensive products and ...
headquartered in
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the population was 82,376 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
Mountain V ...
. 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
Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency pl ...
, created by the same founders while working at LinkedIn in 2008 as a B2B infrastructure company.
Confluent's products are the Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors,
Apache Flink
Apache Flink is an Open-source software, open-source, unified stream processing, stream-processing and batch processing, batch-processing software framework, framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The core of Apache Flink is a dis ...
, Stream Governance and Confluent Hub.
Corporation has filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021, with a valuation of $4.5 billion.
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2021 initial public offerings
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