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April 7, 2025

Redpanda Announces the General Availability of Apache Iceberg Topics for the Enterprise

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April 3, 2025

Redpanda Raises $100M Series D, Launches Enterprise Agentic AI Platform

New funding values company at $1B as Redpanda introduces a purpose-built data platform for multi-agent applications with complete traceability and data sovereignty.

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February 26, 2025

Redpanda Introduces Fastest Streaming Connectivity for Snowflake with Dramatic Cost-Efficiency and Ease of Use

New Snowflake connector in Redpanda Connect delivers more simple, powerful, and efficient data streaming up to 2x faster than Kafka Connect

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September 12, 2024

Redpanda Adds AI Integrations, expands Cloud Availability, and Unveils Vision for R1: the Multimodal Streaming Data Engine

Expanded connectivity and cloud availability simplifies building data-intensive applications for AI and analytics.

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August 13, 2024

Next Billion Dollar Startups 2024

Forbes predicts Redpanda will be one of 25 unicorn startups most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation.

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August 7, 2024

Redpanda Expands Multi-Cloud Offerings with Microsoft Azure Integration

Integration Expands Deployment Options and Enhances Security for Redpanda Cloud Users

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July 8, 2024

Bridging the Data Gap: Real-Time User-Facing Analytics

This architecture delivers real-time insights to users while preserving data freshness, minimizing latency and withstanding high-query throughput.

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June 23, 2024

Insight Jam Podcast Interviews Alex Gallego

Redpanda's founder and CEO shares his thoughts on ground-breaking shifts to enterprise technology and AI integration.

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June 18, 2024

Data Streaming Pioneer Redpanda Recognized in Redpoint’s InfraRed 100

InfraRed report showcases the private cloud infrastructure companies set to revolutionize the market

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May 30, 2024

Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform

Redpanda has already integrated Benthos into its own service and has made it the core technology of its new Redpanda Connect service.

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May 30, 2024

Redpanda acquires Benthos to enhance its data streaming platform

Redpanda Data Inc. has acquired Benthos, the developer of an open-source platform that helps organizations move information between their applications.

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May 30, 2024

Redpanda Acquires Benthos to Deliver a Complete, End-to-End Streaming Data Platform

Acquisition of leading streaming connectivity technology brings 220+ connectors to the Redpanda platform to simplify building high-throughput data products

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May 23, 2024

Unleashing the Power of Graph and Vector Databases

Learn how these technologies are converging in the age of generative AI and how organizations can effectively leverage each approach to drive their businesses.

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May 14, 2024

Code Story Podcast: Alex Gallego Shares the Redpanda Creation Story

Join a special episode of Code Story to hear from our founder and CEO, Alex Gallego, on how he started Redpanda and his approach to building a dynamic, fast-growing company.

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May 13, 2024

Unlocking Real-Time Insights: Overcoming the Challenges of Streaming Data

Streaming data is essential to create a living data stack where everything updates automatically, but there can be multiple layers of complexity to work through.

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May 7, 2024

Redpanda 24.1 Raises Streaming Data Performance to New Heights

Latest Release from Redpanda Introduces Write Caching, Simplified Security Controls, and the General Availability of Data Transforms

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May 3, 2024

How To Build a Scalable Platform Architecture for Real-Time Data

The skyrocketing SaaS industry demands dynamic and adaptable architectures to handle the influx of real-time data. Here’s how to build them.

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April 30, 2024

ShareChat Reduces Cloud Spend 70% with Redpanda Streaming Data

India’s Largest Social Media Company Turns to Redpanda “Bring Your Own Cloud” Deployment for Greater Operational Efficiencies and Data Sovereignty

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March 29, 2024

Data Transformations: Apache Flink vs. Redpanda Data Transforms

Let’s compare the two data transformation options across their best features, along with potential use cases and benefits.

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March 25, 2024

Redpanda Releases Streaming Data Platform as a Fully Managed, Pay-as-you-go Service

Redpanda Serverless is a fully managed, pay-as-you-go, cost-effective streaming data platform that empowers developers to get started with streaming data in seconds and to automatically scale the service up or down to match their data workloads.

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March 22, 2024

How to Introduce Real-Time Data Predictions with Redpanda

In sectors that handle high volumes of data in real time, Redpanda Data Transforms can prepare data for machine learning on the fly.

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March 19, 2024

Redpanda serverless streaming option targets cost control

The real-time data management specialist's new serverless platform enables customers to pay only for the compute power they use, which helps predict and manage spending.

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March 19, 2024

Redpanda launches serverless offering for its streaming data platform

Redpanda has announced a fully managed version of its streaming data platform, enabling developers to both get started quicker and not have to worry about managing infrastructure as they need to scale up.

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March 19, 2024

Redpanda Serverless Delivers Powerful Streaming Data Platform as a Fully Managed Pay-as-you-go Service

Redpanda Lowers the Barriers to Streaming Data with Agile New Scale-to-Zero Service

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February 6, 2024

Redpanda Skyrockets in FY24: 300% Revenue Growth, 179% Customer Growth and Industry-first Streaming Data Advancements

Activision, Cisco, Lacework, ShareChat and Many More Chose Redpanda Streaming Data Platform for Simplicity, Scale and Cost Efficiency

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January 31, 2024

Architecting for Industrial IoT Workloads: A Blueprint

Manufacturers with IIoT systems can use this reference architecture as a model to push innovation, adaptability and continuous improvement.

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January 31, 2024

Architecting for Industrial IoT Workloads: A Blueprint

Manufacturers with IIoT systems can use this reference architecture as a model to push innovation, adaptability and continuous improvement.

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January 10, 2024

ZenDesk Sit Down Startup Podcast: Knowing You've Hit Product-Market Fit

Redpanda founder and CEO Alex Gallego joins this special Sit Down Startup episode to chat about everything from Redpanda's humble beginnings to his ambitious product goals for the (very near) future.

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January 8, 2024

Redpanda CEO and founder Alex Gallego Joins Monday Morning Data Chat Podcast

Alex joined Matt Housely for a lively discussion of the future of data streaming, the impact of data transforms, the challenges of being Founder of a tech start-up and more.

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December 4, 2023

Real-Time Analytics Podcast: The Future of Streaming Tech with Dunith Danushka of Redpanda

In this episode, Tim Berglund is joined by Redpanda developer advocate Dunith Danushka for a dive into the streaming data space and a look at what Redpanda has in common with Apache Kafka and the many ways it is different.

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November 27, 2023

Redpanda Cloud Adds Support for AWS Graviton to Improve Data Streaming Cost-Efficiency up to 50%

Redpanda’s fully managed service optimizes price performance, adds managed Apache Iceberg connector and schema registry console

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November 15, 2023

Redpanda Unveils State of Streaming Data Report on Industry Trends, Ecosystem Components and Challenges

Based on an extensive, third-party survey of streaming data-savvy engineers, research shows real-time analytics and AI/ML are driving the majority of streaming data adoption

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October 2, 2023

How Goldsky Democratizes Streaming Data for Web3 Developers

Its data platform, powered by Redpanda and Apache Flink, enables a new wave of applications by putting real-time data at developers’ fingertips.

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September 26, 2023

Redpanda Outfits Its Cloud Service with Industry-First Capabilities for Data Sovereignty

Fully managed, Kafka-compatible streaming data service delivers Customer-Managed VPC deployment option along with SOC2 Type 2 Attestation

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September 20, 2023

Simple, Performant, Cost-effective Data Streaming

Listen to The Data Stack Show episode 156 featuring Alex Gallego of Redpanda Data on Apple podcasts.

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September 19, 2023

Implementing High-Performance Ad Tech Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs)

Here is a real-time solution architecture using Redpanda and Aerospike to support millisecond latency bidding decisions.

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September 6, 2023

On Implementing Real-time Analytics with Redpanda and SingleStore

Q&A with Chris Larsen, Director of Partnerships at Redpanda

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June 27, 2023

Why Lightspeed is Leading Redpanda’s $100 Million Series C

Our lead investor tells the story of how and why they partnered with Redpanda for the ride.

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June 27, 2023

Redpanda raises $100M as streaming data demand grows

The Redpanda streaming data platform lets users collect, store, analyze data in real time. It's finding use cases in AI/ML and generative AI.

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June 27, 2023

Redpanda lands $100M to expand its streaming data pipelines

Redpanda Data today said it has raised $100 million in an over-subscribed Series C round.

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June 27, 2023

Redpanda nabs $100M Series C as streaming service experiences significant growth

At a time when mega investments are rare, Redpanda, a streaming data start-up, announce a $100M Series C.

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June 27, 2023

Redpanda’s $100M Raise Reminds Us of 2021

As data streaming becomes more in demand, startups in the sector are getting a boost.

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June 27, 2023

Redpanda Raises $100M in Series C Funding

Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, the new round will fuel the streaming data company’s investments in WebAssembly, Apache Iceberg and serverless

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May 16, 2023

Case Study: How Lacework Scaled Data Streaming with Redpanda

A fast-growing company harnesses data streams to deliver better application security in the cloud.

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May 1, 2023

Getting Started with Redpanda in Kubernetes

Learn how Redpanda is deployed in K8s with components like the reimplementation of Kafka broker, StatefulSets, nodeport, persistent storage, and observability.

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April 21, 2023

Producing and Consuming Avro Messages with Redpanda Schema Registry

Learn how to use Redpanda’s built-in schema registry to produce and consume Apache Avro messages in five simple steps.

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April 20, 2023

Founders Talk: Builder journey to streaming data platform

Redpanda CEO & founder Alex Gallego shares his journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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April 4, 2023

Data Streaming: Where Redpanda Differs from Apache Kafka

Today's demanding data-driven service-level objectives require ultra-high-performance gear. New alternatives, such as Redpanda, are addressing these requirements.

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March 26, 2023

What Is Advertised Kafka Address?

Learn more about the advertised Kafka address.

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March 7, 2023

Redpanda Grows Revenue Nearly Fivefold, Unveils New Managed Connectors for Its Streaming Data Cloud

Latest updates include enhanced capabilities for enterprise connectivity, security and scalability.

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November 16, 2022

Redpanda Announces User Award Winners

Awards Recognize Innovation and Excellence in Streaming Data

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November 15, 2022

Redpanda Brings the Fastest, Most Resource-Efficient Apache Kafka® API to the Cloud

Fully Managed Streaming Data Service Combines a Privacy-Preserving Architecture with an Integrated Developer Console, Managed Connectors, Tiered Storage, SOC 2 Compliance and More

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November 1, 2022

Redpanda Launches Cloud-Based Streaming Platform

As data streaming has become a critical part of business operations, makers of data streaming management and analysis software have had to up their performance game as well.

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November 1, 2022

The Founder Who Turned His Love of Tinkering Into a Data-Processing Gold Mine

Alexander Gallego was the first in his family to go to college. Now a two-time startup founder, he encourages others to work on hard problems.

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October 17, 2022

Redpanda Recognized by InfoWorld with BOSSIE Award

InfoWorld recently recognized the cutting-edge projects that are difference-makers with their Best Open Source Software (BOSSIE) Awards 2022.

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October 16, 2022

Podcast: Redpanda Aims to Simplify Data Streaming for Enterprises

Redpanda CEO and founder Alex Gallego explains why it was critical to build a new storage engine for modern hardware and use cases that benefit from these architectural improvements.

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September 20, 2022

Redpanda Introduces Redpanda Console, a Powerful, Secure Web UI for Debugging and Managing Real-Time Clusters

New capabilities streamline the development and management of robust, reliable, and secure data pipelines for real-time applications.

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June 7, 2022

Alex Gallego Builds Redpanda To Simplify And Unify Real-Time Streaming Data

Redpanda introduces new architecture and capabilities that make data streaming fast and limitless.

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May 25, 2022

Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money

The Apache Kafka®-compatible distributed event streaming platform excels in latency and performance and offers a glimpse into the future of streaming.

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March 10, 2022

Wing Venture Capital Releases Fourth Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List

Developer and data stack-focused companies dominate the list.

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March 4, 2022

5 Data Startups Pull in Nearly $500 Million in New Venture Funding

Venture funding continues to pour into the cloud data management market in early 2022.

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February 28, 2022

Get Your Infrastructure Ready for Real-Time Analytics

Learn how these four companies did it.

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February 24, 2022

Redpanda Nabs $50M Series B for Data Streaming

San Fran-headquartered Redpanda Data is a relative newcomer to the scene, having only been founded (at the time, as “Vectorized”) in 2019.

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February 23, 2022

Redpanda Announces $50M Series B Funding from GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Haystack VC

Streaming data pioneer sees 10x growth as customers embrace its platform as a unified engine of record for all enterprise data.

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February 23, 2022

Redpanda Data aims to modernize dev stacks with data streaming

Today, Redpanda Data, the data streaming platform formerly known as Vectorized, announced a successful $50 million series B round.

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February 23, 2022

Redpanda raises $50M to modernize stream processing

The three-year-old company’s product is a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka that unifies historical and real-time data.

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February 23, 2022

The Ring Zero of real-time data processing: Redpanda scores $50M Series B funding to grow its streaming platform

Maintaining compatibility with the de-facto market standard while reimplementing and extending it.

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February 23, 2022

With mission to modernize data streaming, Redpanda snares $50M Series B

The company has grown from 22 employees when we last spoke in January 2021 to around 60 today.

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