Neha Narkhede
InvestorUnicorn founderCo-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member at Confluent
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedConfluent$11B
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About
Neha Narkhede is a co-founder of Confluent, where she served as Chief Technology and Product Officer before moving to the board of directors, and is one of the original creators of Apache Kafka, developed during her time as an engineer and streams infrastructure lead at LinkedIn. She is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Oscilar and also works as a startup investor and advisor.
Co-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member at Confluent
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Confluent's investors · 20
468 CapitalBerlin · since 2017Alkeon InnovationNew York · since 2017Altimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2020Axevil CapitalSan Francisco · since 2017Battery VenturesBoston · $500K – $100M checks · since 2017BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2017Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2020Cusp CapitalEssen · $7.6M checks · since 2017DCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checks · since 2017Factorial FundsSan Francisco · since 2017Founders Circle CapitalSan Francisco · since 2017Franklin TempletonSan Mateo · since 2020Geodesic CapitalFoster City · since 2017Global Founders CapitalBerlin · $637K – $32M checks · since 2017GreatPoint VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $20M checks · since 2017Icon VenturesPalo Alto · $6M – $12M checks · since 2017Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2015JuniperoMiami · since 2017Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2017Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2017
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Confluent
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In turn, Neha can intro founders to Confluent's investors below.
Confluent's investors · 20
468 CapitalBerlin · since 2017Alkeon InnovationNew York · since 2017Altimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2020Axevil CapitalSan Francisco · since 2017Battery VenturesBoston · $500K – $100M checks · since 2017BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2017Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2020Cusp CapitalEssen · $7.6M checks · since 2017DCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checks · since 2017Factorial FundsSan Francisco · since 2017Founders Circle CapitalSan Francisco · since 2017Franklin TempletonSan Mateo · since 2020Geodesic CapitalFoster City · since 2017Global Founders CapitalBerlin · $637K – $32M checks · since 2017GreatPoint VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $20M checks · since 2017Icon VenturesPalo Alto · $6M – $12M checks · since 2017Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2015JuniperoMiami · since 2017Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2017Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2017
Co-founders at Confluent
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Neha NarkhedeCo-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member
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Jun RaoCo-founder
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Edward (Jay) KrepsExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
Experience
- ConfluentCEOcurrent2014 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- AnthropicBoard Member2024 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- LinkedInPrincipal Staff Engineer2011 — 2014Mountain View, CA
- LinkedInPrincipal Engineer and Engineering Manager2010 — 2011
- LinkedInSenior Software Engineer2009 — 2010
- LinkedInSenior Software Engineer2007 — 2009
- NexTag, Inc.Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining2006 — 2007
- MovarisSoftware Engineer2005 — 2006
Skills & more
Hadoop99Scala24Python22C12Open Source19Git9Unix11JavaScript7Linux9Databases6R3Voldemort17
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Neha Narkhede?
- Neha Narkhede is a co-founder of Confluent, where she served as Chief Technology and Product Officer before moving to the board of directors, and is one of the original creators of Apache Kafka, developed during her time as an engineer and streams infrastructure lead at LinkedIn. She is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Oscilar and also works as a startup investor and advisor.
- Where does Neha Narkhede work?
- Neha Narkhede is Co-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member of Confluent and CEO at Confluent.
- What companies did Neha Narkhede found?
- Neha Narkhede founded Confluent.
- Where did Neha Narkhede go to school?
- Neha Narkhede studied at University of California, Santa Cruz (MS, Computer Science); University of California, Santa Cruz (BS, Computer Science).
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