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| Company type | Public |
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| ISIN | US20717M1036 |
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | September 23, 2014, in Silicon Valley, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 3,263 (Q3 2025) |
| 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 filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021 with a valuation of $4.5 billion.[3] IBM announced the acquisition of Confluent at a $11 billion valuation on December 8, 2025.[4] The deal is expected to close by the middle of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.
References
- ^ "Confluent, the foundational platform for data-in-motion". Battery. June 24, 2021.
- ^ "Neha Narkhede changing the face of superstar developers (she co-created Apache Kafka and Confluent!)". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
- ^ "Confluent's IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets". Tech Crunch. June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
- ^ "IBM to Acquire Confluent". Confluent. Retrieved December 8, 2025.
External links
- Official website
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- American brands
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- Companies based in Palo Alto, California
- Data companies
- Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Companies listed on the Nasdaq
- Multinational companies headquartered in the United States
- Software companies established in 2014
