Confluent, an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, says it has filed confidentially for a US IPO; Confluent was last valued at $4.5B in April 2020 (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)

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Confluent, an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, says it has filed confidentially for a US IPO; Confluent was last valued at $4.5B in April 2020  —  Confluent Inc., an event streaming platform, has filed confidentially to go public in the U.S.  —  The company said in a statement …