Confluent

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Confluent, Inc.
Company typePublic
ISINUS20717M1036
IndustryInformation technology
FoundedSeptember 23, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-09-23), in Silicon Valley, U.S.
Founders
HeadquartersMountain View, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Jay Kreps (CEO)
  • Jun Rao
  • Erica Ruliffson Schultz (president of Field Operations)
Products
Services
  • Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Platform
RevenueIncrease US$$0.963 billion (FY 2024)
Increase US$−0.345 billion (2024)
Total assetsDecrease US$2.46 billion (2024)
Total equityDecrease US$.810 billion (2024)
Number of employees
3,263 (Q3 2025)
Websiteconfluent.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.

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