About

2019

San Francisco, California

Cloud, Dev Tools

Redpanda is a simple, powerful, and cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka® APIs while eliminating Kafka complexity.

Funding

$165.5 million

Undisclosed

Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, Haystack VC

As of July 2023, Redpanda claims its compresses your cloud infrastructure costs by 3x and total spending by 6x.

Redpanda customers include Activision, Cisco, Lacework, Optimizely, Midjourney, LiveRamp, ShareChat, Moody’s, Texas Instruments, and Wunderkind.

Alexander Gallego: Founder & CEO of Redpanda. Former Founder & CTO of Concord Systems.

David Wang: VP of Engineering at Redpanda. Former Director of Engineering at Cloudera.

Jae Jun: VP of Talent at Redpanda. Former Senior Director of Global Talent Operations at Adobe.