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Confluent, Inc.
Type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: CFLT Russell 1000 component
ISIN	US20717M1036
Industry	Information technology
Founded	September 23, 2014 (2014-09-23), 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.

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.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

Corporation filed for an IPO on June 1, 2021 with a valuation of $4.5 billion.^[4] IBM announced the acquisition of Confluent at a $11 billion valuation on December 8, 2025.^[5] The deal completed on March 17, 2026.^[6]

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