Confluent
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| Confluent, Inc. | |
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| 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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| Revenue |  US$$0.963 billion (FY 2024) |
| US$−0.345 billion (2024) | |
| Total assets |  US$2.46 billion (2024) |
| Total equity | US$.810 billion (2024) |
Number of employees | 3,263 (Q3 2025) |
| Parent | IBM |
| Website | confluent.io |
Confluent, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California.
It 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.
Confluent's products are the Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors, Apache Flink, Stream Governance and Confluent Hub. In 2025, it launched Confluent Intelligence, a fully managed service on Confluent Cloud providing AI-powered capabilities including anomaly detection, fraud detection, and forecasting for real-time data streams.
Corporation filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021 with a valuation of $4.5 billion. IBM announced the acquisition of Confluent at a $11 billion valuation on December 8, 2025. The deal completed on March 17, 2026.
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.
- ↑ "Can Confluent Intelligence solve the biggest data challenges in AI?". CRN Asia. Retrieved March 21, 2026.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents". IBM Newsroom. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
External links
- Official website
- Business data for Confluent, Inc.:
