Confluent

Confluent, Inc.
Type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: CFLT; Russell 1000 component;
ISIN	US20717M1036
Industry	Information technology
Founded	September 23, 2014; 11 years ago, in Silicon Valley, U.S.
Founders	Jay Kreps; Jun Rao; Neha Narkhede;
Headquarters	Mountain View, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jay Kreps (CEO); Jun Rao; Erica Ruliffson Schultz (president of Field Operations);
Products	Software development; Cloud computing; Internet;
Services	Confluent Cloud; Confluent Platform;
Revenue	US$$0.963 billion (FY 2024)
Net income	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. 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 completed on March 17, 2026.^[5]

In 2025, Confluent 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.^[6]

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.
↑ "IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents". IBM Newsroom. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
↑ "Can Confluent Intelligence solve the biggest data challenges in AI?". CRN Asia. Retrieved March 21, 2026.

External links

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Business data for Confluent, Inc.:

[battery-1] "Confluent, the foundational platform for data-in-motion". Battery. June 24, 2021.

[linkedin-2] "Neha Narkhede changing the face of superstar developers (she co-created Apache Kafka and Confluent!)". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved June 11, 2024.

[3] "Confluent's IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets". Tech Crunch. June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2024.

[4] "IBM to Acquire Confluent". Confluent. Retrieved December 8, 2025.

[5] "IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents". IBM Newsroom. Retrieved March 17, 2026.

[6] "Can Confluent Intelligence solve the biggest data challenges in AI?". CRN Asia. Retrieved March 21, 2026.

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