Top 5 Indian Women in Silicon Valley Driving the Future of Global Innovation

Neha Narkhede, Confluent

Neha Narkhede, an Indian American technologist, is most famous as the co-inventor of Apache Kafka and co-founder of Confluent, which she scaled as a global data streaming leader. At Confluent, first she was Chief Technology Officer and then joined its board, guiding the company through its IPO success in 2021. The same year she founded Oscilar, an AI-driven risk decisioning platform that enables banks and fintechs to combat fraud and compliance issues with speed and precision.

Oscilar has already made significant traction under her management, being used by more than 80 financial institutions and winning innovation awards in the industry. Awarded by Forbes, MIT Technology Review and Inc. Magazine, Neha embodies women leadership in tech while reshaping real-time data and fintech risk management while empowering the next generation of global entrepreneurs.