MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Confluent, Inc., the event streaming platform pioneer, has been named to the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. "The biggest trend within the world of enterprise SaaS startups is the emergence of a generation of companies offering modern infrastructure platforms as a service,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder.