Confluent Raises a $125M Series D Funding Round
I’m excited to announce that Confluent has raised a $125M Series D funding round, led by Sequoia, with participation from our other major investors, Index Ventures and Benchmark. This builds […]
License Changes for Confluent Platform
We’re changing the license for some of the components of Confluent Platform from Apache 2.0 to the Confluent Community License. This new license allows you to freely download, modify, and […]
Welcoming the Distributed Masonry Team to Confluent
Event streaming platforms force a fundamental rethink of the way companies treat the data that describes and drives their business, taking us away from the static notion of data which sits […]
The Arrival of Streaming: Confluent Raises $50 Million Series C
I have some exciting news to share: we’ve completed a $50 million investment led by our newest partner, Sequoia Capital and Matt Miller of Sequoia will be joining our board […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | October 2016
This month the community has been focused on the upcoming release of Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0. Led by the fearless release manager, Jason Gustafson, we voted on a release plan, cut […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | September 2016
It is September and it’s evident that everyone is back from their summer vacation! We released Apache Kafka 0.10.0.1 which includes fixes of the bugs in the 0.10.0 release. In […]
Confluent Raises a Series B
It is my pleasure to announce that Confluent has raised a Series B funding of $24M, led by Index Ventures and joined by our Series A investor, Benchmark. Mike Volpi […]
Announcing Confluent, a Company for Apache Kafka and Realtime Data
Today I’m excited to announce that Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao, and I are forming a start-up called Confluent around realtime data and the open source project Apache Kafka that we […]