Conduktor raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel.

Conduktor, a Paris, France-based software startup developing an open source data streaming project, announced completig a series A funding round closed at $20 million.

The funding was raised from investors led by Accel, and joined by existing shareholders Frontline Ventures and Aglaé Ventures.

Conduktor, founded in 2020 by Nicolas Orban (CEO), Stephane Maarek and Stephane Derosiaux, developed Kafka, an event streaming platform built to handle common business use-cases such as processing ecommerce payments, managing signups, matching passengers with drivers in ride-hailing apps, harnessing hardware sensor data, and more. The platform is a full-featured native desktop application that plugs directly into Apache Kafka to bring visibility to the management of Kafka clusters, applications, and microservices.

The company claims to have attracted some 60,000 users from more than 9,000 companies, including Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, DraftKings, and Olo.

Conduktor previously raised a $2 million seed round closed in the spring of 2021.