# Snowflake

> Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that lets organizations store, analyze, and share data across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2012 by three former data architects, it separated compute from storage to make large-scale analytics elastic and pay-per-use. Now positioned as an 'AI Data Cloud,' the company adds managed AI services through Snowflake Cortex and governed agentic tools, serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founders:** Benoit Dageville (Co-founder, President of Products), Thierry Cruanes (Co-founder, CTO), Marcin Zukowski (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~7,000-9,000 employees
- **Products:** Snowflake Data Cloud, Snowflake Cortex, Snowpark, Snowflake Arctic, Snowflake Marketplace
- **Notable:** Largest software IPO in history at the time of its 2020 debut, more than doubling on opening day, Attracted a rare tech investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Grew to more than 12,000 customers across the globe

## Products & services

- **Snowflake Data Cloud** — Core cloud data platform that separates compute from storage, enabling elastic, pay-per-use data warehousing, data lakes, and analytics across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- **Snowflake Cortex** — Fully managed AI service offering serverless access to large language models so enterprises can build AI applications directly on their governed data.
- **Snowpark** — Developer framework for running Python, Java, and Scala code and machine learning workloads natively inside Snowflake.
- **Snowflake Arctic** — Open-source enterprise-grade large language model released to compete with models like Meta's Llama and Databricks' DBRX.
- **Snowflake Marketplace** — Marketplace for discovering, sharing, and monetizing third-party datasets, applications, and native apps without moving data.
- **Snowflake Intelligence / CoWork** — Agentic AI product (rebranded CoWork) that lets business users query and act on governed enterprise data in natural language.
- **Cortex Code / CoCo** — AI coding assistant (rebranded CoCo) used across thousands of Snowflake accounts to build on the platform.

## Achievements

- Largest software IPO in history at the time of its 2020 debut, more than doubling on opening day
- Attracted a rare tech investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway
- Grew to more than 12,000 customers across the globe
- Reached $4.72B in product revenue for fiscal 2026
- Open-sourced Arctic, its own enterprise LLM
- Pioneered the separation of compute and storage as a mainstream cloud data architecture

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — At Snowflake Summit 2026, AWS announced a $6 billion, five-year infrastructure commitment; Snowflake released AI agent governance infrastructure and rebranded core AI products (CoWork, CoCo).
- **2026-02** — Reported Q4 fiscal 2026 product revenue of $1.23B (up 30% YoY) and full-year product revenue of $4.72B.
- **2026-01** — Announced agreement to acquire Observe, an AI-powered observability company.
- **2025-06** — Announced acquisition of Crunchy Data, a cloud-based PostgreSQL provider, for approximately $250 million.

## Links

- Website: https://www.snowflake.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snowflake-computing
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Snowflake
- GitHub: https://github.com/snowflakedb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/snowflakeinc
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/snowflake/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Snowflake/

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Last updated: 2026-07-16