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Confluent

Confluent is creating a new paradigm for real-time data streaming to help organizations set data in motion. Learn about our company, our mission, and our people
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Confluent is creating a new paradigm for real-time data streaming to help organizations set data in motion. Learn about our company, our mission, and our people

Employees

1001-5000

Funding

Series D ($125M)

AI Classification

DataAIData Infrastructure

Confluent is an enterprise data streaming platform company that commercializes Apache Kafka, offering Confluent Cloud (managed SaaS) and Confluent Platform (self-managed) to enable real-time data pipelines, stream processing, and event-driven architectures. They serve Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, and other industries.

Deep Intelligence

Account Scoring

Medium Churn Risk
  • Series D — mature / stable
  • Thin digital footprint

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Competitors

A Complete Comparison of ConfluentApache Kafka

Confluent is one of 2,673 B2B companies in the Kustiq directory.

Confluent sits among 50 data infrastructure companies in our Data & AI directory.

Similar profiles: Apollo, Gainsight, Checkout, and CellBlock FCS.

Both sit in the 1001-5000 headcount band, and both are at Series D. See Confluent vs Apollo side by side.

Both sit in the 1001-5000 headcount band, and both are at Series D. See Confluent vs Gainsight side by side.

Both sit in the 1001-5000 headcount band, and both are at Series D. See Confluent vs Checkout side by side.

Segment benchmark

How Confluent compares with other Data Infrastructure companies

Confluent is one of 50 Data Infrastructure companies profiled in the Kustiq DataAI directory, which holds 242 DataAI companies in total. Every number below is computed from those profiles.

Confluent sits in the 1001-5000 headcount band. 95% of the 40 segment peers with a known team size are smaller. 0% of those peers share the same band.

The most common tech detections across the 16 peers with a visible stack are Cloudflare (56%), Vercel (31%), and Next.js (31%). Confluent lists none of them.

Among the 22 segment companies with disclosed funding, Seed is the most common stage (18%). Confluent is at Series D.

The median founding year across 13 peers with a known founding date is 2015.

San Francisco is the most common HQ city in this segment, home to 20% of the 10 peers with a known location.

Benchmarks are recomputed from live directory data, so they move as profiles refresh. Counts cover Kustiq-profiled companies, not the whole market.

How Kustiq built this profile

How this profile was built

  • Live web rendering via Browserless headless Chrome, not a stale cached scrape.
  • Search intelligence via Serper API across the company site, LinkedIn, press, and GitHub.
  • Claude only picks the buckets. It never decides facts.
  • 12-factor churn engine. Deterministic score, zero LLM at scoring time.
  • SMTP RCPT TO handshake on every contact, at delivery time on full profiles (paid plan).

This profile was built from search coverage across the live web on .

Read the full methodology in our LLM-readable reference or compare against the deterministic-vs-AI framework.

Frequently asked questions

How many employees does Confluent have?
Confluent has 1001-5000 employees, based on public sources read at the last profile run. That makes it larger than 95% of the 40 profiled Data Infrastructure peers with a known team size.
What industry is Confluent in?
Confluent is a DataAI company in the Data Infrastructure segment.
Who are Confluent's competitors?
Public sources list A Complete Comparison of Confluent and Apache Kafka as Confluent competitors. The list comes from live search coverage at the last profile run, not a static database.
Is this profile actually verified, or just generated by AI?
The structured fields come from a hybrid pipeline. Facts (location, employee range, funding, tech stack) come from live web rendering plus Serper search across the company site, LinkedIn, press, and GitHub. Claude only picks the buckets: vertical, segment, growth signal. It never decides facts. Contact emails on full profiles pass an SMTP RCPT TO handshake at delivery time.
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How fresh is the data?
Confluent was last verified 4 months ago. The data refreshes when anyone re-runs the profile (the Re-run now button above does exactly that), and we run the SMTP handshake on contacts when you ask for them, not when we cached the row. The freshness card above the profile shows the exact relative date for the current visit.
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