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Snowflake Inc.

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Snowflake Inc., headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, operates a platform that provides data storage via cloud computing and allows for data analysis and simultaneous access of data sets with minimal latency.[1] It operates on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. As of January 2024, the company had 9,437 customers, including 691 members of the Forbes Global 2000, and processed 4.2 billion daily queries across its platform.[1]

Snowflake Inc.
Company typePublic
FoundedJuly 23, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-07-23)
Founders
  • Benoît Dageville
  • Thierry Cruanes
  • Marcin Żukowski
HeadquartersBozeman, Montana, U.S.
Key people
ServicesCloud Data Platform
RevenueIncrease US$2.806 billion (2024)
Decrease US$−1.09 billion (2024)
Decrease US$−836 million (2024)
Total assetsIncrease US$8.223 billion (2024)
Total equityDecrease US$5.180 billion (2024)
Number of employees
7,004 (2024)
Websitewww.snowflake.com Edit this at Wikidata
Footnotes / references
Financials as of January 31, 2024.[1]

History

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Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012 in San Mateo, California by Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation; Żukowski was a co-founder of Vectorwise. Mike Speiser, a venture capitalist at Sutter Hill Ventures, which provided early funding to the company, was the company's first CEO.[2]

In June 2014, Bob Muglia, formerly of Microsoft, was named CEO. In October 2014, Snowflake came out of stealth mode; at that time it was used by 80 organizations.[3][4]

Snowflake has run on Amazon Web Services since 2014,[5][6] on Microsoft Azure since 2018,[7] and on the Google Cloud Platform since 2019.[8][9]

In June 2015, Snowflake launched its first product, its cloud data warehouse.[10]

In May 2019, Frank Slootman, formerly CEO of ServiceNow, joined Snowflake as its CEO.[8]

In June 2019, the company launched Snowflake Data Exchange.[11]

In December 2020, the company added Knoema as as a data provider in the Snowflake Data Marketplace.[12]

In May 2021, the company became a distributed company, with a principal executive office in Bozeman, Montana.[13]

In October 2022, the company acquired a 5% stake in in advanced TV advertising firm OpenAP.[14]

On February 28, 2024, Frank Slootman retired as CEO and was replaced by Sridhar Ramaswamy.[15]

2024 data breach

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In 2024, per an investigation by Mandiant, login credentials for Snowflake customer accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication were obtained by an infostealer linked to the UNC5537 threat actor group.[16][17][18] [19][20] Data breaches affected Ticketmaster,[21] Advance Auto Parts,[22] Santander Bank, LendingTree, AT&T,[23] and Bausch Health.[24]

Financing history

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In 2012, Snowflake raised $5 million in a Series A round. In October 2014, it raised $26 million.[3]

In June 2015, the company raised $45 million.[25][10][26] It raised $100 million in April 2017.[27][28]

In January 2018, the company raised $263 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it a unicorn.[29]

In October 2018, Snowflake raised $450 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital, at a $3.5 billion valuation.[3][30]

On February 7, 2020, the company raised $479 million. At that time, it had 3,400 active customers.[31]

On September 16, 2020, Snowflake became a public company via an initial public offering raising $3.4 billion in one of the largest software IPOs and the largest to double on its first day of trading.[32][33][34][35][36]

Acquisitions

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# Date Company Price Notes Ref(s).
1 July 2020 CryptoNumerics Undisclosed Privacy-protected datasets [37]
2 March 2022 Streamlit $800 million Data-based apps [38]
3 September 2022 Applica Undisclosed AI platform for document understanding [39]
4 January 2023 Mist AI Undisclosed Time series forecasting company [40]
5 February 2023 LeapYear Undisclosed Data clean room abilities [41]
6 May 2023 Neeva $185 million Privacy-focused search startup [42][15]
7 October 2023 Ponder Undisclosed Python capabilities [43]

Awards and recognition

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In September 2019, Snowflake was ranked first on LinkedIn's 2019 U.S. list of Top Startups.[44]

Snowflake was ranked second on the Forbes Cloud 100 in 2019.[45]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "US SEC: Form 10-K Snowflake, Inc". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 26, 2024.
  2. ^ Anders, George (September 4, 2019). "You're never too old to excel: How Snowflake thrives with 'dinosaur' cofounders and a 60-year-old CEO". LinkedIn.
  3. ^ a b c Dignan, Larry (October 22, 2018). "Snowflake raises $450 million in another VC round, valued at $3.5 billion". ZDNet.
  4. ^ Bass, Dina (October 21, 2014). "Snowflake Takes Aim at Amazon, Hadoop With New Data Service". Bloomberg News.
  5. ^ Handy, Alex (October 23, 2014). "Snowflake offers cloud data warehouse as a service, cheaply". SD Times.
  6. ^ Wingfield, Nick (October 21, 2014). "Longtime Microsoft Executive Opens Cloud Database Start-Up". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Brust, Andrew (July 12, 2018). "Snowflake's cloud data warehouse comes to Microsoft Azure". ZDNet.
  8. ^ a b Taulli, Tom (June 5, 2019). "Snowflake: The AI Force Multiplier". Forbes.
  9. ^ Ichhpurani, Kevin (June 4, 2019). "Announcing Snowflake on Google Cloud Platform". Google Cloud Platform (Press release).
  10. ^ a b Hesseldahl, Arik (June 23, 2015). "Big Data Startup Snowflake Raises $45 Million, Launches First Product". Vox Media.
  11. ^ "Snowflake Announces Data Exchange to Break Down Data Barriers" (Press release). PR Newswire. June 4, 2019.
  12. ^ Gogineni, Manasa (December 21, 2020). "Knoema announces acquisition by Eldridge and partnership with Snowflake". VentureBeat.
  13. ^ Levy, Ari (May 26, 2021). "Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed". CNBC.
  14. ^ Sharma, Shubham (October 17, 2022). "Snowflake acquires stake in OpenAP to set up data clean room for advertisers". VentureBeat.
  15. ^ a b Vanian, Jonathan (February 28, 2024). "Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO; stock plunges 20%". CNBC.
  16. ^ Nast, Condé (June 6, 2024). "The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever". WIRED.
  17. ^ Whittaker, Zach (June 5, 2024). "Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware". TechCrunch.
  18. ^ Gatlan, Sergiu (June 5, 2024). "Advance Auto Parts stolen data for sale after Snowflake attack". Bleeping Computer.
  19. ^ Culafi, Alexander (June 10, 2024). "Mandiant: 'Exposed credentials' led to Snowflake attacks". TechTarget.
  20. ^ "UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft and Extortion". Google Cloud Platform (Press release). June 10, 2024.
  21. ^ Whittaker, Zack (May 31, 2024). "Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster was hacked, says personal information stolen in data breach". TechCrunch.
  22. ^ Grieg, Jonathan (July 11, 2024). "Advance Auto Parts says more than 2 million impacted by data breach". Recorded Future.
  23. ^ Toulas, Bill (July 12, 2024). "Massive AT&T data breach exposes call logs of 109 million customers". BleepingComputer.
  24. ^ Cox, Joseph (July 30, 2024). "Hacker Breaches Pharma Giant Bausch Health, Wants to Extort DEA". 404 Media.
  25. ^ Vanian, Jonathan (June 23, 2015). "This big data startup is as unique as a snowflake". Fortune.
  26. ^ Brust, Andrew (June 26, 2015). "Cloud data warehouse race heats up". ZDNet.
  27. ^ Dignan, Larry (April 5, 2017). "Snowflake Computing raises $100 million to expand cloud data warehouse footprint". ZDNet.
  28. ^ Magistretti, Bérénice; Novet, Jordan (April 5, 2017). "Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake raises $100 million led by Iconiq". VentureBeat.
  29. ^ Miller, Ron (January 25, 2018). "Snowflake lands massive $263 million investment on unicorn valuation". TechCrunch.
  30. ^ Krazit, Tom (October 11, 2018). "With huge new $450M funding round, Snowflake Computing has now raised almost $1 billion". GeekWire.
  31. ^ Miller, Ron (February 9, 2020). "After $479M round on $12.4B valuation, Snowflake CEO says IPO is next step". TechCrunch.
  32. ^ Driebusch, Corrie (September 16, 2020). "Snowflake's Stock Price Soars in IPO". The Wall Street Journal.
  33. ^ Bary, Emily (September 16, 2020). "Snowflake IPO surge makes it the priciest tech stock by a mile". MarketWatch.
  34. ^ Zara, Christopher (September 16, 2020). "Snowflake, JFrog IPO: Software stocks soar in market debut". Fast Company.
  35. ^ Pressman, Aaron (September 16, 2020). "Snowflake CEO: Doubling of stock price after IPO reflects 'frothy' market". Fortune.
  36. ^ La Monica, Paul R. (September 16, 2020). "Snowflake Shares More than Double. It's the Biggest Software IPO Ever". CNN.
  37. ^ "CryptoNumerics in its acquisition by Snowflake". Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. July 20, 2020.
  38. ^ Miller, Ron (March 2, 2022). "Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps". TechCrunch.
  39. ^ Sharma, Shubham (June 27, 2023). "Snowflake launches LLM-driven Document AI and more at annual conference". VentureBeat.
  40. ^ Sharma, Shubham (January 4, 2023). "Snowflake acquires Myst, looks to build time-series forecasting capabilities". VentureBeat.
  41. ^ Ghoshal, Anirban (January 4, 2023). "Snowflake to acquire LeapYear to boost data clean room abilities". InfoWorld.
  42. ^ Palmer, Annie (May 24, 2023). "Snowflake shares plunge 12% on guidance miss, acquisition of search startup Neeva". CNBC.
  43. ^ Sharma, Shubham (October 23, 2023). "Snowflake to acquire Ponder, expanding its Python capabilities for enterprises". VentureBeat.
  44. ^ Hempel, Jessi (September 4, 2019). "LinkedIn Top Startups 2019: The 50 hottest U.S. companies to work for now". LinkedIn.
  45. ^ "The Cloud 100 Archives". Bessemer Venture Partners.
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