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SID Global Solutions and the art of making the boring pay
A returned product, an unused API, a question at the DMV. SID Global Solutions builds its business around the small delays that become expensive when everyone has them.
The Customer Data Company That Gave the Warehouse the Keys
Soumyadeb Mitra could not get a customer-data system to behave at 8x8. His answer was to build the pipes around the warehouse companies already owned - and let the data stay there.
StreamNative Wants the Stream to Outlive the Broker
The Apache Pulsar founders built a company to manage the messages that keep modern businesses moving. Now they are making a more provocative bet: the data should be able to leave the broker behind.
Boomi Bet the Enterprise Would Become a Mess. Now It Wants to Wire the AI Age.
A startup above a Pennsylvania pizza shop survived the integration wars by rebuilding itself for SaaS. Twenty-six years later, Boomi is betting that the same plumbing can keep enterprise AI from becoming another expensive island.
Jay Kreps
Jay Kreps is the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, the data-streaming company built around Apache Kafka, the open-source platform he co-created at LinkedIn in 2010. In December 2025, IBM announced a deal to acquire Confluent for roughly $11 billion. He also serves on Anthropic's Board of Directors and wrote the book I Heart Logs.
Redpanda Data
Redpanda Data is a high-performance streaming data platform built in C++ that is wire-compatible with the Apache Kafka API while ditching the JVM and ZooKeeper. Founded in 2019 by Alexander Gallego, the company helps engineering teams move terabytes of real-time data per day with a simpler, faster, and cheaper architecture, and has expanded its remit toward agentic AI infrastructure.