Confluent, Inc.

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. Confluent's best-known software products are the Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors, Apache Flink, Stream Governance and Confluent Hub.

Confluent was ranked sixth in the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100.

2014: Founding
Confluent was founded by Jay Kreps, Jun Rao and Neha Narkhede on September 23, 2014, in order to commercialize an open-source Apache Kafka, created by the same founders while working at LinkedIn in 2008 as a B2B infrastructure company.

2021–present
Corporation has filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021, with evaluation of $4.5 billion.

On April 8, 2024, Confluent was selected to be a Google Cloud Partner of the Year and it has occurred for a fifth time.

Leadership
The company is run by a board of directors made up of mostly company outsiders, as is customary for publicly traded companies. Members of the board of directors as of June 2024 are Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, Matt Miller, Mike Volpi, Eric Vishria, Jonathan Chadwick, Greg Schott, Lara Caimi, Alyssa Henry.
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Jay Kreps (2014–present).
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Confluent stock's ownership consists of the following: 72.93% is owned by Institutional Investors, 10.27% by Insiders and 16.80% by Public Companies and Individual Investors.
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