Snowflake Inc. is a cloud-based data platform company that enables organizations to unify, analyze, and securely share all types of data. Its core offering, the Snowflake Data Cloud, separates compute and storage resources to provide elastic performance and cost efficiency. The platform supports structured and semi-structured data, allowing customers to execute diverse workloads—such as data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and application development—on a single, scalable environment.
Key products and services include Snowflake Data Warehouse for high-performance analytics, Snowpark for developers to build data-intensive applications using familiar programming languages, and Snowpipe for continuous data ingestion. The company also offers secure data sharing capabilities through its Data Marketplace, which allows organizations to exchange live data sets in real time without moving or copying data. Additionally, Snowflake provides integrated governance, security and compliance features to help enterprises meet regulatory requirements across industries.
Founded in 2012 by Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski, Snowflake went public in September 2020 in one of the largest software IPOs in history. Since its inception, the company has expanded its global footprint to serve customers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Its multi-cloud strategy enables deployment on leading infrastructure providers—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—offering geographic flexibility and redundancy for mission-critical workloads.
Under the leadership of Chairman and CEO Frank Slootman, Snowflake has focused on driving innovation and customer success through strategic investments in research and development. The executive team includes key figures such as Chief Financial Officer Mike Scarpelli and Chief Marketing Officer Denise Persson, who oversee the company’s financial discipline and global go-to-market strategy. Snowflake’s governance structure combines experienced technology executives with independent directors to guide long-term growth and operational excellence.
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