Neha Narkhede
Unicorn founderCo-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member at Confluent · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Confluent
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedConfluent$11B
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
Intro paths
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In turn, Neha can intro founders to Confluent's investors below.
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-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Confluent
Intro paths
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In turn, Neha can intro founders to Confluent's investors below.
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
NN
Neha NarkhedeCo-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member
JR
Jun RaoCo-founder
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
Education
- University of California, Santa CruzMS, Computer Science2003 — 2005
- University of California, Santa CruzBS, Computer Science1999 — 2002
Skills & more
Hadoop99Scala24Python22C12Open Source19Git9Unix11JavaScript7Linux9Databases6R3Voldemort17
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Distributed SystemsScalabilityAlgorithmsMachine Learningapache kafkaStatisticsAnalyticsHiveStream ProcessingRecommender SystemsCollaborative FilteringProduct DevelopmentFrom Neha's professional profile.
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Same school
Also attended University of California, Santa Cruz69
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Shared employers
Also worked at Anthropic94
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Also worked at LinkedIn176
Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockJeremy LevinePartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersDeep NisharInvestment Team at General Catalyst
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