Redpanda - About the company
Redpanda is a series D company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2019 by Alexander Gallego. It operates as a Cloud based platform offering solutions for streaming events. Redpanda has raised $266M in funding from Google Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with a current valuation of $1B. The company has 275 active competitors, including 66 funded and 33 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Databricks, Cloudera and Snowflake.
Company Details
Cloud based platform offering solutions for streaming events. It provides an events streaming platform that assists users in real time event streaming under the assistance of event streaming experts. It also provides a storage engine for transforming data with no code changes.
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2019
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$266M in 5 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$1B as on Dec 31, 2025
Investors
Ranked
13th among 275 active competitors
Employee Count
212 as on Aug 31, 2026
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Redpanda's funding and investors
Redpanda has raised a total funding of $266M over 5 rounds. Its latest funding round was a Series D round on Apr 03, 2025 for $100M. 2 investors participated in its latest round. Redpanda has 3 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Redpanda:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Apr 03, 2025 | $100M | Series D | $1B | - | ||
Jun 27, 2023 | $100M | Series C | - | - | ||
Feb 24, 2022 | $50M | Series B | - | - |
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Redpanda's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Redpanda is Alexander Gallego. Alexander Gallego is the CEO of Redpanda.
Here are the details of Redpanda's key team members:
- Alexander Gallego: Founder & CEO of Redpanda and founder of 3 other companies, Benthos, Vectorized and Concord. Contact Info: 2 email addresses
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Redpanda's employee count trend
Redpanda has 212 employees as of Aug 26. Here is Redpanda's employee count trend over the years:
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Redpanda's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Redpanda include Databricks, Cloudera and Snowflake. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Redpanda, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st |  Databricks 2013, San Francisco (United States), Series L | Data and AI platform that unifies analytics | $25.2B | 83/100 | |
2nd |  Cloudera 2008, Palo Alto (United States), Acquired | Provider of hybrid data platform, data management, and AI solutions | $1.04B | 80/100 | |
3rd | _1583131280549.png?devicePixelRatio=2&height=30&width=30){kind=logo} Snowflake 2012, Bozeman (United States), Public | Provider of cloud-based data platform for analytics and data sharing | $1.56B | 80/100 | |
4th | _1590472586674.png?devicePixelRatio=2&height=30&width=30){kind=logo} Confluent 2014, Mountain View (United States), Acquired | Provider of a platform for data streaming and event processing | $456M | 76/100 | |
5th |  SingleStore 2011, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Provider of cloud based relational database for enterprises | $558M | 74/100 | |
6th | Hydrolix 2018, Portland (United States), Series C | Cloud-based data discovery and visualization solution provider | $145M | 69/100 | |
7th |  Imply 2015, San Francisco (United States), Series D | Open Source Platform for Exploratory Analytics | $215M | 68/100 | |
8th |  ClickHouse 2012, San Francisco (United States), Series D | Developer of open-source OLAP database management system and related tools | $1.05B | 67/100 | |
9th |  Talend Sa 2005, Redwood City (United States), Acquired | Provider of data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI solutions | $102M | 66/100 | |
10th | Stardog Union 2010, Washington, DC (United States), Series C | Developer of an enterprise knowledge graph platform and AI data assistant | $32.5M | 66/100 | |
13th |  Redpanda 2019, San Francisco (United States), Series D | Cloud based platform offering solutions for streaming events | $266M | 63/100 |
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Redpanda's Investments and acquisitions
Redpanda has acquired 2 companies including Oxla and Benthos. Redpanda has not made any investments as of now.Reports related to Redpanda
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News related to Redpanda
Filter this listMedia has covered Redpanda for a total of 9 events in the last 1 year, 6 of them have been about company updates and 1 about people movement.
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GlobalFoundries Selects Redpanda to Unify Real-Time Data and Power AI AgentsMarTech Series•Aug 11, 2026•Redpanda
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Redpanda Streaming Delivers Industry's First Adaptable Streaming EngineBusiness Wire•Mar 31, 2026•Redpanda
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Redpanda Introduces AI Gateway to Bring Control and Governance to Enterprise AIMarTech Series•Feb 19, 2026•Redpanda
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Redpanda Joins Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program to Bring End-to-End Data Streaming Performance for Global EnterprisesBusiness Wire•Dec 16, 2025•Redpanda, Akamai
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Redpanda Appoints Jennifer Lawrence as Chief Revenue Officer to Drive Next Stage of Global GrowthBusiness Wire•Nov 20, 2025•Redpanda
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Redpanda Announces Shadowing in Redpanda Streaming 25.3 to Strengthen Disaster Recovery and Data ResilienceBusiness Wire•Nov 06, 2025•Redpanda
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Redpanda Acquires Oxla, a distributed SQL Engine, Launches New Agentic Data Plane for Governing AI Agents for Enterprise DataBusiness Wire•Oct 28, 2025•Oxla, Redpanda, Warsaw Equity Group
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Redpanda Announces the General Availability of Apache Iceberg Topics for the EnterpriseBusiness Wire•Apr 07, 2025•Redpanda
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Redpanda Raises $100M in Series D; Valued at $1 BillionFinSMEs•Apr 03, 2025•Redpanda, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures
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