# Confluent funding: rounds and investors

> Confluent has raised $206M across 5 rounds since 2014. Investors include Index Ventures, Benchmark and Sequoia/ Benchmark. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/confluent (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Who invested in *Confluent*

5 rounds we have observed, with the 10 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

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Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$206M** raised across 5 rounds since 2014, from 5 sources

**$6.9M** Series A **$24M** Series B **$50M** Round **$125M** Series D

- **Latest round:** Venture Jun 2021
- **Biggest round:** $125M Series D · Jan 2019
- **Investors:** 10 (1 led)

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

**$6.9M** Series A

**$24M** Series B

**$50M** Round

**$125M** Series D

**?** Venture

- **First round:** Series A, $6.9M
- **Biggest round:** $125M
- **Usual gap between rounds:** 23 months

## The rounds

- **Jun 2021** Venture **Amount undisclosed** *4 new* *1 returning* [Sequoia Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sequoia-capital) [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Battery Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/battery-ventures) [Coatue](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coatue-management) [Franklin Templeton](https://millionrounds.com/fund/franklin-templeton) Source recorded
- **Jan 2019** Series D **$125M** *1 new* *1 returning* [Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark) Sequoia Capital/ Index Reported by FinSMEs
- **Mar 2017** Round **$50M** *1 new* *1 returning* Sequoia/ Benchmark Lead [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) Reported by TechCrunch SEC filing: $50M sold, first sale Feb 2017
- **Jul 2015** Series B **$24M** *1 new* *1 returning* [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark) From a historical funding record
- **Nov 2014** Series A **$6.9M** *3 new* [Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark) [DCVC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/data-collective) [LinkedIn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/linkedin) From a historical funding record

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Series A** 2014 **Series B** 2015 **Round** 2017 **Series D** 2019 **Venture** 2021 [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark) Sequoia/ Benchmark L [Sequoia Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sequoia-capital) [Battery Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/battery-ventures) [DCVC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/data-collective) [Coatue](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coatue-management) [Franklin Templeton](https://millionrounds.com/fund/franklin-templeton) [LinkedIn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/linkedin) Sequoia Capital/ Index

## Everyone who backed them

[Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) VC firm **3** rounds

[Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark) VC firm **3** rounds

Sequoia/ Benchmark no record of our own yet **1** round, led 1

[Sequoia Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sequoia-capital) VC firm **1** round

[Battery Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/battery-ventures) VC firm **1** round

[DCVC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/data-collective) VC firm **1** round

[Coatue](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coatue-management) VC firm **1** round

[Franklin Templeton](https://millionrounds.com/fund/franklin-templeton) Private equity **1** round

[LinkedIn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/linkedin) Corporate VC **1** round

Sequoia Capital/ Index no record of our own yet **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=confluent).

## Also claim to have backed them

These 8 firms list Confluent as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Icon Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/icon-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

[Geodesic Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/geodesic-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Founders Circle Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founders-circle-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Factorial Funds](https://millionrounds.com/fund/factorial-funds) VC firm Per its own site

[Neha Narkhede](https://millionrounds.com/fund/neha-narkhede) Angel Per its own site

[Conduit](https://millionrounds.com/fund/conduit) Accelerator Per its own site

[Junipero Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/junipero-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Outlier Grove](https://millionrounds.com/fund/outlier-grove) Micro VC Per its own site

## Quick answers about Confluent

### Who invested in Confluent?

Confluent's investors include Index Ventures, Benchmark, Sequoia/ Benchmark, Sequoia Capital and Battery Ventures, and 5 more on record.

### How much has Confluent raised?

Confluent has raised $206M across 5 rounds since 2014. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor.

### When did Confluent last raise?

Confluent's most recent round was a Venture in Jun 2021.

### What was Confluent's biggest round?

Confluent's largest round on record is $125M (Series D), in Jan 2019.

### Who backed Confluent first?

Confluent's first round on record, in Nov 2014, was backed by Benchmark, DCVC and LinkedIn.

### What stage is Confluent at?

Confluent's latest named round is a Venture, in Jun 2021.

### Where is Confluent based?

Confluent is based in the United States.

### Who led Confluent's rounds?

Sequoia/ Benchmark led the Undisclosed round in 2017.

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