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Confluent, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded on September 23, 2014, in Silicon Valley by Jay Kreps, Jun Rao, and Neha Narkhede. The company was established to commercialize Apache Kafka, an open-source streaming platform that the same founders created while working at LinkedIn in 2008. As a B2B infrastructure company in the information technology industry, Confluent reported a revenue of US$0.777 billion in 2023 and operates as a public company. Its comprehensive product portfolio includes Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Connectors, Apache Flink, Stream Governance, and Confluent Hub. While specific leadership details are not provided, its unique origin lies in being founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka.