--- title: Confluent for Startups | daily.dev description: Confluent has named Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech platform, as its inaugural 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year. Upvest uses Confluent Cloud as the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/confluent-for-startups-zu6iplwzt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Confluent for Startups | daily.dev og:description: Confluent has named Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech platform, as its inaugural 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year. Upvest uses Confluent Cloud as the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/confluent-for-startups-zu6iplwzt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZU6Iplwzt.png og:image:alt: Confluent for Startups og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Confluent for Startups **[Confluent Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/conf)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Confluent has named Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech platform, as its inaugural 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year. Upvest uses Confluent Cloud as the real-time backbone of its embedded investment infrastructure, supporting major clients like DKB, N26, and Revolut. Key capabilities include event-driven microservices architecture, multi-AZ deployments for DORA compliance, Stream Governance with Schema Registry for data quality and auditability, and Confluent Tableflow to expose Kafka topics as Iceberg tables for real-time analytics. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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