Conduktor looks to gatekeep 'bad data' out of company's apps
Conduktor, a startup building streaming data management tools, has raised $30 million in a new funding round.
It was 2020, and Nicolas Orban, Stéphane Derosiaux and Stéphane Maarek were beyond frustrated with Apache Kafka. The tool for handling real-time data streams simply couldn’t keep up with the trio’s engineering needs — particularly during the pandemic, when companies were rushing to embrace cloud services.
“Many companies were finding it difficult to scale their data operations,” Orban told TechCrunch. “And they were struggling to tap the full potential of their data, leaving vast amounts unused or siloed.”
After noodling around for a bit, Orban, Derosiaux and Maarek concluded that Kafka, cumbersome as it was, wasn’t a total loss. It might work, they thought, if you could spruce it up with some tooling.
So they decided to build the tooling.
The trio called that tool Conduktor, and over the years, it has evolved into a fully-fledged platform for streaming data management — one that can intercept and filter data according to a company’s policies before it reaches its final destination.
Conduktor essentially acts as a gatekeeper for data, Orban (the startup’s CEO) said, preventing “bad data” — corrupt, skewed or otherwise incomplete data — from polluting downstream applications. This could be data for real-time analytics, for example, or predictive maintenance.
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Conduktor’s tools seem pretty awesome man. They’re fixing problems with Apache Kafka and helping companies manage real-time data better at the same time. It's great because everything is moving to the cloud now