---
title: "Confluent for Startups"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/confluent-for-startups-zu6iplwzt
source_url: https://www.confluent.io/blog/announcing-upvest-as-confluents-2026-emea-data-streaming-startup-of-the-year
type: article
source: "Confluent Blog"
published: 2026-07-16T00:12:58.040Z
updated: 2026-07-16T00:13:19.135Z
tags: ["architecture", "fintech", "apache-kafka", "confluent-cloud", "data-streaming"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#fintech](https://daily.dev/tags/fintech), [#apache-kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-kafka), [#confluent-cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/confluent-cloud), [#data-streaming](https://daily.dev/tags/data-streaming)

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