# StreamNative

> Founded by Apache Pulsar co-creators Sijie Guo and Matteo Merli, StreamNative sells managed data streaming for Pulsar and Kafka workloads. Its Ursa engine moves the durable log toward cloud object storage and lakehouse formats, while its 2026 Lakestream release opens parts of that storage design to the wider ecosystem.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, United States
- **Founders:** Sijie Guo (Co-founder and CEO), Matteo Merli (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** StreamNative Cloud, Ursa Engine, Universal Linking, Managed Apache Flink, Orca Agent Engine
- **Notable:** Ursa research won the VLDB 2025 Best Industry Paper award., Ursa reached general availability on AWS BYOC in March 2025., StreamNative open sourced Lakestream, Ursa 1.0, and Ursa for Kafka under Apache 2.0 in September 2026.

## Products & services

- **StreamNative Cloud** — Managed Pulsar and Kafka-compatible streaming with serverless, dedicated, and bring-your-own-cloud deployment options.
- **Ursa Engine** — Leaderless streaming engine with object-storage-based durability and lakehouse integration; generally available on AWS BYOC in 2025.
- **Universal Linking** — Replication and migration tooling for moving data between streaming systems, including Kafka environments.
- **Managed Apache Flink** — Managed stream processing powered by Ververica's VERA engine.
- **Orca Agent Engine** — Private-preview runtime for event-driven AI agents connected to streaming events.
- **Lakestream, Ursa 1.0, and Ursa for Kafka** — Apache 2.0 open source stream-storage specification, engine, and diskless Kafka distribution announced in September 2026.

## Achievements

- Ursa research won the VLDB 2025 Best Industry Paper award.
- Ursa reached general availability on AWS BYOC in March 2025.
- StreamNative open sourced Lakestream, Ursa 1.0, and Ursa for Kafka under Apache 2.0 in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Open sourced Lakestream API and specification, Ursa 1.0, and Ursa for Kafka under Apache 2.0.
- **2026-08** — Introduced a broader StreamNative Data Platform direction and SQL Workspace in StreamNative Cloud.
- **2026-04** — Introduced Ursa for Kafka and detailed its native Kafka service on Lakestream.
- **2025-09** — Ursa won VLDB's Best Industry Paper award and expanded across deployment models.

## Links

- Website: https://streamnative.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamnative
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/streamnativeio
- GitHub: https://github.com/streamnative
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@streamnative

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Last updated: 2026-09-28