Snowflake Inc.

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Snowflake Inc.
Company type Public
FoundedJuly 23, 2012;12 years ago (2012-07-23)
Founders
  • Benoît Dageville
  • Thierry Cruanes
  • Marcin Żukowski
Headquarters Bozeman, Montana, U.S.
Key people
ServicesCloud Data Platform
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$2.806 billion (2024)
Decrease2.svgUS$−1.09 billion (2024)
Decrease2.svgUS$−836 million (2024)
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$8.223 billion (2024)
Total equity Decrease2.svgUS$5.180 billion (2024)
Number of employees
7,004 (2024)
Website www.snowflake.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Footnotes /references
Financials as of January 31,2024. [1]

Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based data storage company. Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, it operates a platform that allows for data analysis and simultaneous access of data sets with minimal latency. [1] It operates on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. As of November 2024, the company had 10,618 customers, including 800+ members of the Forbes Global 2000, and processed 4.2 billion daily queries across its platform. [1]

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History

Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012 in San Mateo, California by Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation; Żukowski was a co-founder of Vectorwise. Mike Speiser, a venture capitalist at Sutter Hill Ventures, which provided early funding to the company, was the company's first CEO. [2]

In June 2014, Bob Muglia, formerly of Microsoft, was named CEO. In October 2014, Snowflake came out of stealth mode; at that time it was used by 80 organizations. [3] [4]

Snowflake has run on Amazon Web Services since 2014, [5] [6] on Microsoft Azure since 2018, [7] and on the Google Cloud Platform since 2019. [8] [9]

In June 2015, Snowflake launched its first product, its cloud data warehouse. [10]

In May 2019, Frank Slootman, formerly CEO of ServiceNow, joined Snowflake as its CEO. [8]

In June 2019, the company launched Snowflake Data Exchange. [11]

In December 2020, the company added Knoema as a data provider in the Snowflake Data Marketplace. [12]

In May 2021, the company became a distributed company, with a principal executive office in Bozeman, Montana. [13]

In October 2022, the company acquired a 5% stake in advanced TV advertising firm OpenAP. [14]

On February 28, 2024, Frank Slootman retired as CEO and was replaced by Sridhar Ramaswamy. [15]

2024 data breach

In 2024, per an investigation by Mandiant, login credentials for Snowflake customer accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication were obtained by an infostealer linked to the UNC5537 threat actor group. [16] [17] [18] [19] Data breaches affected Ticketmaster, [20] Advance Auto Parts, [21] Santander Bank, LendingTree, AT&T, [22] and Bausch Health. [23] One Connor Riley Moucka, 25, (alias Waifu of the hacking group "The Comm"), was arrested by Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, police (at the request of the U.S.) on October 30, 2024; a Washington state court has issued an indictment on charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, extortion, and aggravated identity theft. [24] [25] [26]

Funding

In 2012, Snowflake raised $5 million in a Series A round. In October 2014, it raised $26 million. [3]

In June 2015, the company raised $45 million. [27] [10] [28] It raised $100 million in April 2017. [29] [30]

In January 2018, the company raised $263 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it a unicorn. [31]

In October 2018, Snowflake raised $450 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital, at a $3.5 billion valuation. [3] [32]

On February 7, 2020, the company raised $479 million. At that time, it had 3,400 active customers. [33]

On September 16, 2020, Snowflake became a public company via an initial public offering, raising $3.4 billion in one of the largest software IPOs and the largest to double on its first day of trading. [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]

Acquisitions

#DateCompanyPriceNotesRef(s).
1July 2020CryptoNumericsUndisclosedPrivacy-protected datasets [39]
2March 2022Streamlit$800 millionData-based apps [40]
3September 2022ApplicaUndisclosedAI platform for document understanding [41]
4January 2023Mist AIUndisclosed Time series forecasting company [42]
5February 2023LeapYearUndisclosedData clean room abilities [43]
6May 2023 Neeva $185 millionPrivacy-focused search startup [44] [15]
7October 2023PonderUndisclosedPython capabilities [45]
8May 2024TruEraUndisclosedAI Observability Platform [46]

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