| Confluent, Inc. | |
| Logo Alt: | Confluent logo |
| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Information technology |
| Founded: | , in Silicon Valley, U.S. |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Revenue: | billion |
| Revenue Year: | FY 2024 |
| Net Income: | billion |
| Net Income Year: | 2024 |
| Assets: | billion |
| Assets Year: | 2024 |
| Equity: | billion |
| Equity Year: | 2024 |
| Num Employees: | 3,263 |
| Num Employees Year: | Q3 2025 |
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.
