Snowflake
Snowflake's mission is to mobilize the world's data by providing a single, seamless cloud-native platform that enables organizations to store, process, and share data for analytics and AI.
At a Glance
- Enterprise
- Mid-market
- Government
- Financial Services
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AI Tools by Snowflake
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Streamlit
Python Web App Framework
Cortex Code
AI Coding Assistant for Snowflake
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Latest News
Snowflake appoints Michel Nader to lead META region to advance regional AI ambitions.
Snowflake Launches Project SnowWork to enhance collaborative data workflows.
Snowflake Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year of Fiscal 2026 ($4.68B Revenue).
Snowflake enters $200 million strategic partnership with OpenAI to integrate GPT models with Cortex AI.
Products & Services
The core platform providing a unified data environment for warehousing, lakes, engineering, and sharing across multiple clouds.
A fully managed AI service that enables users to build AI applications using large language models (LLMs) directly on their data.
A developer framework that allows users to write code in Python, Java, and Scala to process data within Snowflake without moving it.
A workload type that allows Snowflake to handle both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) data in a single platform.
Market Position
Snowflake positions itself as the 'AI Data Cloud', a neutral multi-cloud platform that avoids vendor lock-in with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) while offering superior performance and ease of use compared to legacy on-premise systems and first-generation cloud warehouses.
Leadership
Founders
Benoit Dageville
Co-founder and President of Product at Snowflake. Previously spent 20 years at Oracle as a software architect, focusing on database parallelization and self-manageability. Holds a PhD in Computer Science.
Thierry Cruanes
Co-founder and CTO at Snowflake. Previously a data architect at Oracle for 13 years and a senior engineer at IBM. Expert in query optimization and parallel execution.
Marcin Zukowski
Co-founder at Snowflake. Previously co-founder of VectorWise (acquired by Actian), where he pioneered the use of vectorized query execution in analytical databases.
Executive Team
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
Joined Snowflake via the acquisition of Neeva (which he co-founded). Previously served as SVP of Ads and Commerce at Google for 15 years.
Mike Scarpelli
Chief Financial Officer
Joined in 2019. Previously CFO at ServiceNow (2011-2019) and DataDomain. Known for leading companies through hypergrowth and IPOs.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Snowflake was founded in 2012 by data warehousing experts Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Zukowski. The founders sought to reinvent the data warehouse for the cloud, specifically by separating storage from compute to allow for independent scaling. The name 'Snowflake' was inspired by the founders' shared passion for snow sports and as a nod to the fact that every customer's data architecture is unique, like a snowflake.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Consumption-based pricing using 'Snowflake Credits' for compute and a flat fee for data storage and transfer.
Pricing Tiers
Basic features for data warehousing.
Adds multi-cluster warehouse, column-level security, and 90-day data retention.
Highest security level (HIPAA, PCI compliance) and failover/recovery.
Dedicated virtual infrastructure for extreme security and isolation.
Target Markets
- Enterprise
- Mid-market
- Government
- Financial Services
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Retail & CPG
- Data Warehousing
- Data Lakes
- Data Engineering
- Data Science & AI
- Data Applications
- Cybersecurity
- Walmart
- Salesforce
- Adobe
- JPMorgan Chase