Organization and Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Organization and Description of Business	1. Organization and Description of Business Description of Business Confluent, Inc. (“Confluent” or the “Company”) created a data infrastructure platform focused on data in motion. Confluent’s platform allows customers to connect their applications, systems, and data layers and can be deployed either as a self-managed software offering, Confluent Platform, or as a fully-managed cloud-native software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) offering, Confluent Cloud. Confluent also offers professional services and education services. The Company was incorporated in the state of Delaware in September 2014 and is headquartered in California with various other global office locations. Initial Public Offering In June 2021, the Company completed its initial public offering (“IPO”), in which the Company issued and sold 23,000,000 of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $36.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds of $786.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions. Immediately prior to the closing of the IPO, all shares of common stock then outstanding were reclassified as Class B common stock, all 115,277,850 shares of the Company’s outstanding redeemable convertible preferred stock automatically converted into an equal number of shares of Class B common stock, and all 635,818 shares of the Company’s outstanding convertible founder stock automatically converted into an equal number of shares of Class B common stock. Prior to the IPO, deferred offering costs, which consist of direct incremental legal, accounting, consulting, and other fees relating to the IPO, were capitalized in other assets, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Upon the consummation of the IPO, $3.4 million of deferred offering costs, net of reimbursement received from the underwriters, were reclassified into stockholders’ equity as an offset against the IPO proceeds. The Company had $0.1 million of capitalized deferred offering costs as of December 31, 2020.

Organization and Description of Business

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization and Description of Business

1. Organization and Description of Business

Description of Business

Confluent, Inc. (“Confluent” or the “Company”) created a data infrastructure platform focused on data in motion. Confluent’s platform allows customers to connect their applications, systems, and data layers and can be deployed either as a self-managed software offering, Confluent Platform, or as a fully-managed cloud-native software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) offering, Confluent Cloud. Confluent also offers professional services and education services. The Company was incorporated in the state of Delaware in September 2014 and is headquartered in California with various other global office locations.

Initial Public Offering

In June 2021, the Company completed its initial public offering (“IPO”), in which the Company issued and sold 23,000,000 of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $36.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds of $786.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions. Immediately prior to the closing of the IPO, all shares of common stock then outstanding were reclassified as Class B common stock, all 115,277,850 shares of the Company’s outstanding redeemable convertible preferred stock automatically converted into an equal number of shares of Class B common stock, and all 635,818 shares of the Company’s outstanding convertible founder stock automatically converted into an equal number of shares of Class B common stock.

Prior to the IPO, deferred offering costs, which consist of direct incremental legal, accounting, consulting, and other fees relating to the IPO, were capitalized in other assets, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Upon the consummation of the IPO, $3.4 million of deferred offering costs, net of reimbursement received from the underwriters, were reclassified into stockholders’ equity as an offset against the IPO proceeds. The Company had $0.1 million of capitalized deferred offering costs as of December 31, 2020.