Redpanda, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, raised $100 million in a Series D funding round on April 3, 2025, bringing total funding to $262 million from investors including Google Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company provides a cloud-based event streaming platform and storage engine that enables real-time data processing, transformation, and analytics without code changes. Serving businesses that require high-throughput and low-latency streaming solutions, Redpanda empowers teams to make faster decisions and scale operations efficiently, achieving a $1B unicorn valuation.