Snowflake

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Snowflake, cloud data warehousing and analytics platform, founded July 2012, headquartered in Bozeman, MT. The company has shifted from pure data warehousing toward AI-native infrastructure, with agentic AI capabilities now central to its product roadmap. Fiscal 2026 full-year results showed 30% product revenue growth, and a $200M multi-year partnership with OpenAI brings frontier models directly into the platform.

Key facts

Founded

July 2012

Founders

Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski

Employees

~11,000

Sectors

saas, enterprise, ai

Website

snowflake.com

Mission

Snowflake's mission is to mobilize the world's data through a cloud-native AI Data Cloud — enabling organizations to unify, share, and act on data at scale, with agentic AI as the next frontier for enterprise automation.

Recent activity

• Jun 2026investment
  Snowflake committed $6 billion to AWS, covering AI offerings and Graviton chips, announced alongside Q1 FY2027 earnings on May 27, 2026. The AWS partnership has booked $3.9B in new business over the prior 12 months. atlan.com
• Jun 2026press
  Snowflake Summit 2026 ran June 1–4 at Moscone Center, San Francisco — the largest in company history with 20,000+ attendees. Anthropic President Daniela Amodei co-keynoted with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. Theme: 'Making AI Real for Business.' flexera.com
• Jun 2026product
  Snowflake rebranded Snowflake Intelligence to Snowflake CoWork and Cortex Code to Snowflake CoCo, both with substantial new capabilities. CoCo is reportedly the fastest-growing product in Snowflake's history since launching in early 2026. select.dev
• Jun 2026investment
  Snowflake announced intent to acquire Natoma at Summit 2026, extending its data governance and context capabilities. atlan.com
• Jun 2026product
  Summit 2026 introduced 26+ new product capabilities: AI agents (CoWork, CoCo), Horizon Context, Cortex Sense, AI Agent Identity, Apache Iceberg v3, Datastream, Openflow, Cortex Training, and Adaptive Compute. atlan.com
• Feb 2026fundraise
  Snowflake raised $376 million in a Post-IPO Equity round, its most recent financing. crustdata.com
• Jun 2026product
  Snowflake Summit 2026 (June 1–4, Moscone Center, San Francisco) drew 20,000+ attendees — the largest in the company's history. Snowflake announced 26+ new product capabilities across AI agents, context layers, security, data infrastructure, and AI compute. flexera.com
• Jun 2026investment
  Snowflake committed $6 billion to AWS, covering AI offerings and Graviton chips, in an expanded cloud partnership announced at Summit 2026. constellationr.com
• Jun 2026investment
  Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Natoma, a move tied to its push into agentic AI and semantic context capabilities. atlan.com
• Jun 2026product
  Snowflake rebranded Snowflake Intelligence as Snowflake CoWork and Cortex Code as Snowflake CoCo, expanding both products with new agentic AI capabilities. Anthropic President Daniela Amodei co-keynoted alongside CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. flexera.com
• Jun 2026product
  Snowflake introduced Cortex Sense, a shared context layer that equips agents with business definitions and operational knowledge, and launched Snowflake Horizon Context for semantic governance. siliconangle.com
• Jun 2026product
  Snowflake released Apache Iceberg storage tables into general availability on June 1, 2026, and launched Iceberg v3 support alongside new data infrastructure capabilities including Datastream and Openflow. docs.snowflake.com

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO
  LinkedIn
• Denise Persson · CMO
  LinkedIn
• Baris Gultekin · Employee
• John LaBarre · Employee
• Edouard Beaucourt · Employee
• Frank Slootman · former CEO (Chairman emeritus)
• Mike Scarpelli · CFO
• Christian Kleinerman · EVP of Product
• Benoit Dageville · Co-founder & President of Products
• Thierry Cruanes · Co-founder & CTO

Sources

• Snowflake Reports Financial Results for Q4 and Full-Year Fiscal 2026
• Snowflake Is Unlocking AI's Future — CRN Cover Story
• Snowflake 2026 Company Profile — Tracxn
• Denise Persson — LinkedIn
• Sridhar Ramaswamy — LinkedIn
• Snowflake Ventures: Funding, Team & Investors
• VC firms pumped over $100B into Snowflake's partner ecosystem
• https://www.flexera.com/blog/perspectives/snowflake-summit-2026/
• https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/snowflake-summit-2026-context-custom-model-training-iceberg-v3
• https://atlan.com/know/snowflake/summit-2026-announcements/
• https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/03/snowflake-cowork-powers-real-world-agentic-ai-snowflakesummit/
• https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/new-features
• https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2026/snowflake-summit-2026-coco-cowork-drive-partner-growth
• https://select.dev/posts/snowflake-summit-2026-product-announcement-recap
• https://crustdata.com/profiles/company/snowflake

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