Confluent, Inc. Explained
| Confluent, Inc. |
| Logo Alt: | Confluent logo |
| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Information technology |
| Founded: | in |
| Hq Location: | 899 West Evelyn Ave. |
| Hq Location Country: | U.S. |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Revenue: | billion |
| Revenue Year: | 2023 |
| Net Income: | billion |
| Net Income Year: | 2023 |
| Num Employees: | 2,744 |
| Num Employees Year: | 2023 |
Confluent, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California.[1] 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.[2] [3] Confluent's best-known software products are the Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors, Apache Flink, Stream Governance and Confluent Hub.[4]
Confluent was ranked sixth in the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100.[5]
History
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.[6]
On April 8, 2024, Confluent was selected to be a Google Cloud Partner of the Year and it has occurred for a fifth time.[7]
Leadership
- Board of directorsThe 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.[8]
- Chief executivesJay Kreps (2014–present).[9]
- OwnershipConfluent 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.[10]
Notes and References
- Web site: Contact Us . Confluent .
- Web site: Confluent, the foundational platform for data-in-motion . Battery . June 24, 2021 .
- Web site: Neha Narkhede changing the face of superstar developers (she co-created Apache Kafka and Confluent!). 2024-06-11. www.linkedin.com. en.
- Web site: Home Page . Confluent .
- Web site: Confluent's Ranking Leaped from Tenth to Sixth in the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100 . Confluent .
- Web site: Confluent's IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets . June 2, 2021 . Tech Crunch . June 11, 2024.
- Web site: Confluent named a Google Cloud Partner of the Year for the Fifth Time . Confluent .
- Web site: Set Data in Motion . Confluent . June 11, 2024.
- Web site: Announcing Confluent, a Company for Apache Kafka® and Realtime Data . Confluent .
- Web site: Confluent (CFLT) Ownership - Who Owns Confluent? . Tipranks .
