Headquarters
Bozeman, MTFounded
2012CEO / Founder
Sridhar RamaswamyEmployees
5001-10000Funding
PublicStock
SNOWProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.3/10Website
www.snowflake.comProfile updated
Snowflake Inc. was founded in 2012 by Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Zukowski to build a cloud-native data warehouse with separated storage and compute. The Data Cloud platform now spans data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data applications, and AI workloads.
The company went public on the NYSE in September 2020 in what was at the time the largest software IPO in US history. Sridhar Ramaswamy became CEO in February 2024, succeeding Frank Slootman. Snowflake operates across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud regions.
Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana with major engineering offices in San Mateo, California, Snowflake employs approximately 7,000 people and reported FY24 revenue of $2.8 billion.
Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.
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Who Snowflake Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
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.
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.
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 TopReviewedEnterprise 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 TopReviewedData 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 TopReviewedManaged 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.
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