
He spent years helping databases speak to one another. Then Steve Wilkes began asking a more impatient question: why wait for the data to arrive before making it useful?

Long before real-time data became an AI talking point, the DeltaStream founder was studying how information moves. His career is a patient argument that the future arrives continuously - and should be queryable in plain SQL.
Striim is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company that builds a unified real-time data streaming and integration platform. Founded in 2012 by the team behind GoldenGate Software, Striim uses change data capture (CDC) to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data with sub-second latency from databases, logs, and applications into cloud warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric. Its platform powers real-time analytics, cloud migration, and AI-ready data pipelines for enterprises including UPS, American Airlines, Macy's, and Morrisons.