Snowflake Inc.

About Snowflake Inc.

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Snowflake Inc.

All products by Snowflake Inc. reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

SnowflakeAI Data Tools

Cloud data platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI workloads

Pricing on request8.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Snowflake Inc.

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Snowflake Inc.'s product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Decision Maker the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Snowflake Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

Databricks8.4/10

Lakehouse architecture built on Spark and Delta Lake, emphasizing unified data engineering, ML, and AI workloads with open-format storage rather than Snowflake's managed proprietary storage layer.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Google BigQuery

Serverless, fully-managed data warehouse tightly integrated with Google Cloud, priced on a pay-per-query or capacity model, competing directly for cloud analytics workloads.

MongoDB8.4/10

Document-oriented NoSQL database optimized for operational application workloads rather than analytical data warehousing, though its Atlas platform increasingly overlaps in analytics and search use cases.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Informatica7.4/10

Enterprise data integration and management software vendor focused on ETL, MDM, and governance across on-prem and cloud environments, often deployed alongside Snowflake rather than as a warehouse replacement, but competes for enterprise data platform budget.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Collibra8.0/10

Data governance and cataloging platform that layers on top of warehouses like Snowflake; competes for enterprise data platform spend but is not a warehouse substitute itself.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Fivetran, Inc.8.1/10

Managed ELT/data pipeline tool that loads data into warehouses including Snowflake, positioning it as a complementary ingestion layer rather than a direct storage/compute competitor, though it increasingly bundles transformation and destination features that push into adjacent territory.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Snowflake Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. Jan 8, 2026Acquisition

   Announces intent to acquire Observe

   Snowflake signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI-powered observability platform Observe, aiming to unify telemetry data with its AI Data Cloud on Apache Iceberg and OpenTelemetry standards.

   snowflake.com
2. June 2025Acquisition

   Acquires Crunchy Data for ~$250M

   Snowflake agreed to acquire enterprise PostgreSQL provider Crunchy Data for approximately $250 million, launching "Snowflake Postgres" to give customers a native Postgres option.

   blocksandfiles.com
3. Feb 28, 2024Milestone

   Sridhar Ramaswamy named CEO, succeeding Frank Slootman

   Frank Slootman retired as CEO and remained Chairman of the Board; Sridhar Ramaswamy, who joined via the Neeva acquisition, was named CEO effective immediately.

   snowflake.com
4. May 24, 2023Acquisition

   Acquires Neeva

   Snowflake acquired AI search startup Neeva, founded in 2019 by ex-Google executives including Sridhar Ramaswamy; deal terms were not disclosed at announcement.

   techcrunch.com
5. Mar 2, 2022Acquisition

   Acquires Streamlit for ~$800M

   Snowflake signed a definitive agreement to acquire Streamlit, the open-source Python framework for building data apps, in a deal reported at approximately $800 million.

   techcrunch.com
6. Sep 16, 2020Milestone

   IPO on NYSE — largest software IPO at the time

   Snowflake priced its IPO at $120/share, raising nearly $3.4 billion at a $33.2 billion valuation; shares opened at $245, more than double the IPO price on the first day of trading.

   news.crunchbase.com
7. February 2020Funding

   Raises $479M private round at $12.4B valuation

   Snowflake closed a $479 million private funding round in February 2020, valuing the company at $12.4 billion ahead of its September 2020 IPO filing.

   news.crunchbase.com
8. May 1, 2019Milestone

   Frank Slootman named Chairman and CEO

   Snowflake appointed Frank Slootman, former ServiceNow and Data Domain CEO, as Chairman and CEO, succeeding Bob Muglia who had led the company for five years.

   prnewswire.com
9. Jul 23, 2012Founded

   Snowflake Computing founded in San Mateo, California

   Snowflake was founded by Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Zukowski, former Oracle and Vectorwise data-warehousing engineers, to build a cloud-native data warehouse.

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