Confluent
Data StreamingFounded in 2014 by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent pioneers data in motion, enabling organizations to harness the power of real-time event streaming.
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Quick Facts
- Founded
- 2014
- Founders
- Jay Kreps, Jun Rao, Neha Narkhede
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California
- Industry
- Data Streaming Infrastructure
About Confluent
Confluent was founded by the engineering team at LinkedIn who originally created Apache Kafka. They realized that traditional databases designed for 'data at rest' were too slow for modern applications that required real-time reactions to user behavior, market changes, or system events.
To solve this, they built a platform around 'data in motion'. Confluent provides a fully managed, cloud-native data streaming platform based on Kafka, allowing massive enterprises—from banks to ride-sharing apps—to process trillions of events per day in real-time.
What Confluent Does
Confluent Cloud
A fully managed, cloud-native Kafka service available across all major public clouds.
Connectors
Pre-built connectors to seamlessly move data between Kafka and traditional databases, SaaS apps, and data warehouses.
Stream Processing (Flink)
Real-time data processing and transformation using Apache Flink.
Confluent Platform
Enterprise software for running highly secure and scalable event streaming on-premises.
Career Areas
Types of professional roles found inside Confluent.
- Software Engineering
- Product Management
- Sales & Go-To-Market
- Developer Relations
- Marketing
- Customer Success
Confluent's History
- 2011Kafka open-sourced
Apache Kafka is open-sourced while the founders were still working at LinkedIn.
- 2014Founded
Confluent is founded to build an enterprise platform around Kafka.
- 2017Confluent Cloud
Launches its fully managed cloud offering to simplify streaming infrastructure.
- 2021IPO
Confluent goes public on the NASDAQ.
Purpose & Values
“Setting data in motion”
