Jun Rao
Unicorn founderCo-founder at Confluent
San Jose, California, United States
FoundedConfluent$11B
About
Jun Rao is a co-founder of Confluent, which he started in 2014, and a committer on the Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra projects. He was previously a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and spent a decade as a Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Co-founder at Confluent
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Confluent's investors · 21
468 CapitalBerlinAlkeon InnovationNew YorkAltimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2020AmpersandBostonAxevil CapitalSan FranciscoBattery VenturesBoston · $500K – $100M checksBenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2017Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2020Cusp CapitalEssen · $7.6M checksDCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checksFactorial FundsSan FranciscoFounders Circle CapitalSan FranciscoFranklin TempletonSan Mateo · since 2020Geodesic CapitalFoster CityGlobal Founders CapitalBerlin · $637K – $32M checksGreatPoint VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $20M checksIcon VenturesPalo Alto · $6M – $12M checksIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2015JuniperoMiamiSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2017Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks
Co-founders at Confluent
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Neha NarkhedeCo-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member
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Jay KrepsCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Experience
- Confluentco-foundercurrent2014 — present
- The Apache Software FoundationKafka committercurrent2011 — present
- ApacheCassandra committercurrent2009 — present
- LinkedInSenior Staff Software Engineer2010 — 2014
- IBM Almaden Research CenterResearch Staff Member2000 — 2010
- IBM Almaden Research Centersummer intern1999
- MicrosoftResearch intern1998
- Sybase Incsummer intern1997
Education
- Columbia UniversityPhD, computer science1995 — 2000
- Tsinghua UniversityB.E, Computer Science1989 — 1994
Skills & more
Hadoop52MapReduce24Databases31Enterprise Architecture10Distributed Systems66Scalability39Big Data22
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