Confluent is a data streaming platform built by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka. The product ships as Confluent Cloud (fully managed), Confluent Platform (self-managed), Confluent Private Cloud, and WarpStream, with stream processing on Flink and newer Confluent Intelligence and Streaming Agents pieces for AI workloads.

Founded by Jay Kreps, Jun Rao, and Neha Narkhede. Customers span startups to global enterprises across financial services, retail and ecommerce, manufacturing, telecom, and public sector, with SAS, Notion, and GEP Worldwide called out in case studies. Company mission is "Set Data in Motion."

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