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Axoniq
Axoniq is a Dutch-founded enterprise software company that builds the backend infrastructure for event-sourced systems and, increasingly, for enterprise AI. Born from the open-source Axon Framework created by Allard Buijze in 2009, the company provides an event-sourcing platform - Axon Framework, Axon Server, and an agent runtime - that gives applications a complete, replayable memory of every decision they make. That memory is the foundation for auditability, explainability, and observability that regulated industries need before they trust AI in production. Axoniq's tools are downloaded 70 million+ times and used by more than 65,000 organizations worldwide.
Jessica Reeves
Jessica Reeves is the CEO and a board member of AxonIQ, the Utrecht-based company behind the Axon Framework and a unified platform for building event-driven, AI-native applications. She came up through HR and operations rather than engineering, spent roughly eight years at Anaconda where she rose to COO and helped scale the company into a $1.5B unicorn with $150M+ in ARR, and now argues that AI's lasting value will sit in its infrastructure layer - specifically in explainability, the ability to trace exactly why an intelligent system did what it did. Based in Austin, Texas, she frames event sourcing as the memory foundation that AI agents need to be auditable and trustworthy in the enterprise.
VANTIQ
VANTIQ is a Walnut Creek, California software company that builds a low-code platform for real-time, distributed, event-driven applications. The platform acts as a master orchestrator for agentic AI, generative AI, edge computing and IoT - letting enterprises sense events as they happen, reason over them with AI and multi-agent systems, and act in the moment for mission-critical outcomes across healthcare, defense, disaster response, manufacturing, energy and the public sector.
Confluent
Confluent is the data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka. Its Data Streaming Platform - anchored by fully managed Confluent Cloud and a self-managed Confluent Platform, plus managed Apache Flink for stream processing - lets organizations connect, process, and govern data in motion across clouds in real time. Used by thousands of enterprises including a large share of the Fortune 500, Confluent went public in 2021 (NASDAQ: CFLT) and in December 2025 agreed to be acquired by IBM in a deal valuing it at roughly $11 billion.