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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. Confluent's products are the Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors, Apache Flink, Stream Governance and Confluent Hub.

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Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao founded Confluent in September 2014 to commercialize Apache Kafka, the open-source distributed event-streaming system they built at LinkedIn. The company sold a managed data-streaming platform covering real-time pipelines, stream processing, and connectors across cloud environments, debuting on Nasdaq under CFLT on June 24, 2021 at $36 per share. IBM announced acquisition of Confluent on December 8, 2025 and completed the all-cash deal at $31 per share on March 17, 2026, valuing the company at roughly $11 billion. CFLT was delisted from Nasdaq on March 16, 2026.

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