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Confluent

Data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, co-founded by ex-LinkedIn engineers who created Kafka.

Public Founded 2014 Mountain View USA Developer Tools
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Founders

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Jay Kreps
Co-founder & CEO
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Jun Rao
Co-founder
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Neha Narkhede
Co-founder & CTO

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Confluent’s founders.

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