# Confluent

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/confluent

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Mountain View, US
- Website: www.confluent.io
- Total disclosed funding: $456M
- Latest round: Series E (Apr 21, 2020)
- Investors on record: 8

## About

Founded in 2014 and based in California, US, Confluent, Inc. operates as an event streaming platform. The company was co-founded by CEO Jay Kreps, CTO Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao. In December 2025, IBM Corporation acquired Confluent, Inc. from Battery Ventures, FinSight Ventures, Digital Disrupt for USD 11 billion.

The company develops and operates Apache Kafka, a software-as-a-service (Saas)-based platform that provides open-source event streaming for enterprises to view transactions, manage software, and track operations-related data streams in real-time. Confluent also operates as a data infrastructure designed to connect applications, systems, and data layers of a company around a real-time central nervous system. Its offering can be deployed either as a fully-managed, cloud-native SaaS offering available to cloud providers, or an enterprise-ready, self-managed software offering.

The acquisition aims to support IBM Corporation's provide intelligent data platform for enterprise IT by integrating Confluent capabilities.

## Funding rounds

- Series E, Apr 21, 2020, $250M — Index Ventures, Hong Shan, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital, Franklin Templeton
- Series D, Nov 19, 2018, $125M — Benchmark, Index Ventures, Hong Shan
- Series C, Feb 21, 2017, $50M — Benchmark, Index Ventures, Hong Shan
- Series B, Aug 7, 2015, $24M — Benchmark, Index Ventures
- Series A, Sep 26, 2014, $6.9M — Benchmark, LinkedIn Corporation, DCVC

## Investors

- Benchmark (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/benchmark) — Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D
- LinkedIn Corporation — Series A
- DCVC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/dcvc) — Series A
- Index Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/index-ventures) — Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E
- Hong Shan — Series C, Series D, Series E
- Coatue Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/coatue-management) — Series E
- Altimeter Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/altimeter-capital) — Series E
- Franklin Templeton (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/franklin-templeton) — Series E