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

• Mar 2026leadership
  Snowflake implemented targeted layoffs as part of a strategic shift toward AI-driven efficiency. tracxn.com
• Feb 2026press
  Reported Q4 and full-year fiscal 2026 results: 30% product revenue growth, with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy describing the year as a turning point toward agentic AI infrastructure. Fiscal 2027 guidance projects ~27% product revenue growth. linkedin.com
• 2026product
  Launched Snowflake Intelligence, an agentic AI platform, and Project SnowWork, an autonomous enterprise AI system targeting sales, finance, marketing, and operations workflows. linkedin.com
• 2026product
  Announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership with OpenAI to bring frontier models directly into the Snowflake platform. linkedin.com
• 2026product
  SAP and Snowflake partnership reached general availability, enabling bidirectional, zero-copy integration of SAP business data with Snowflake — no pipelines required. x.com
• 2026product
  General availability of Cortex AI Guardrails announced, adding prompt injection and jailbreak protection to Snowflake's AI layer. linkedin.com
• 2026press
  Named by Morgan Stanley CIO survey as a top recipient of incremental GenAI enterprise spending in 2026, alongside Microsoft, Salesforce, and Palo Alto Networks. crn.com
• 2026press
  Named Official Data Collaboration Provider for LA28 Olympics and Team USA. linkedin.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

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