Confluent

Confluent, a privately owned company headquartered in the US, was founded in 2014 and employs approximately 3,700 individuals. Its main product is an enterprise cloud offering. The company provides a cloud-native data streaming platform designed to help organizations "set data in motion." Founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent offers an enterprise-grade version of the open-source technology, re-architected for the cloud to eliminate the operational complexity of managing large-scale data pipelines. The platform enables businesses to process, connect, and govern real-time data streams across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, moving away from traditional batch processing toward a continuous flow of events. It provides a unified foundation for event-driven microservices, real-time analytics, and AI applications, allowing global enterprises across sectors such as financial services and retail to respond instantly to business events with high-quality, trusted data.