Confluent
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Founded in 2014 by Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao — the three original creators of Apache Kafka at LinkedIn — Confluent was built to commercialize and extend the massively popular open-source data streaming technology they invented. Apache Kafka had become the de facto standard for real-time data pipelines at companies like Netflix, Uber, and Goldman Sachs, and Confluent built a managed cloud service and enterprise platform on top of it. The company went public on NASDAQ in June 2021 raising $828 million, and serves over 5,000 customers including Walmart, Citibank, and BMW. Confluent generates over $900 million in annual recurring revenue and has become essential infrastructure for any company that needs to react to data in real time.
Active Founders
Jay Kreps
Founder / CEO
Jay Kreps is the co-founder and CEO of Confluent. He previously worked as a principal engineer at LinkedIn where he co-created Apache Kafka, the open-source distributed event streaming platform now used by over 80% of Fortune 100 companies. Jay coined the concept of the log-structured data architecture that underpins modern real-time data systems and has been one of the most influential engineers in the history of distributed data infrastructure.
Neha Narkhede
Co-Founder
Neha Narkhede is the co-founder and former CTO of Confluent. Also a former LinkedIn engineer and co-creator of Apache Kafka, she was instrumental in the early technical design of Confluent's cloud platform and enterprise products. She left Confluent in 2019 to pursue other ventures and is widely recognized as one of the most influential women in the distributed systems and data engineering communities.
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