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The Data Streaming Startup Challenge

Investment and exposure for your business. $1M across three startups.

Showcase your innovative applications and products powered by Confluent

Submit your pitch deck and demo video to apply now! Accepted applications receive an additional $500 in Confluent Cloud Credits.

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Participating companies must be early stage, less than 5 years old, and have raised less than $10M to date.

Win an investment from Confluent

Up to $1M in investments will be distributed to the winner and finalists with the most innovative applications that use Confluent as a key part of their infrastructure.

Pitch to industry luminaries and VCs

Judges will include Confluent CEO Jay Kreps as well as partners from top VCs such as Sequoia, Benchmark, and Index. 

Promote your business on-stage at Kafka Summit London

Winners and runners up will present live at Kafka Summit London, and will be promoted across Confluent marketing material.



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The Timeline

September 12 2023 - Program Announcement and Submission Window Opens

December 31 2023 - Submission Window Closes

January 2024 - Top 10 Announced

February 2024 - Top 3 Finalists Announced

March 2024 - Finalists present at Kafka Summit London 2024 for Grand Prize

The Prizes

Top 10

Blog featuring top 10

$5000 in Confluent Cloud Credits

2 passes to Kafka Summit London

3 Finalists

Up to $250,000 in investment

Pitch to industry luminaries and VCs

Present at Kafka Summit London 2024

Grand prize

Up to $500,000 in investment

Featured in Confluent marketing channels

Chosen from 3 Finalists

What’s required

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  • Build an application that uses Confluent as a key component of your data infrastructure

  • Submit a pitch deck highlighting your core value proposition, how you use Confluent Cloud, and details about the current state of the business (current funding, founder backgrounds, etc.)

  • Submit a demo video (5 mins) highlighting your application and how it uses Confluent

  • Be an entity that is early stage (Less than 5 years old, and has raised less than $10M to date)

Featured Judges

Jay Kreps (square)

Jay Kreps

Co-founder and CEO, Confluent

Shaun Clowes

Shaun Clowes

CPO, Confluent

carlos index

Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas

Partner, Index Ventures

Vishria

Eric Vishria

General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Matt Miller

Matt Miller

Partner, Sequoia Capital

What we’re looking for

Leadership

Does your team have the skill sets and ability to execute?

Opportunity

What is the market opportunity? What are you solving for your customers?

Creativity

How is your application unique, and what is your competitive advantage?

Confluent Usage

How do you leverage Confluent? What specific features do you use?

Are you a part of the Confluent for startups program?

Learn why Confluent is the best way to get started with data streaming and Apache Kafka for your startup.

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