Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020, marking the largest software IPO in United States history. Snowflake's mission is to enable organizations to mobilize their data across multiple public cloud infrastructures, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

The Snowflake platform unifies data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, and data sharing into a single integrated service. Its architecture separates compute from storage, allowing organizations to scale resources independently and optimize performance for diverse analytical workloads. The platform enables businesses to consolidate data from multiple sources into a unified repository, facilitating data discovery, governance, and secure sharing across their organizations.

As of late 2024, Snowflake serves over 10,600 customers, including more than 800 members of the Forbes Global 2000. The company caters to organizations across multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, media, and entertainment. Snowflake's comprehensive feature set, including the Native App Framework for application development and distribution, empowers businesses to extract insights and drive decision-making from their consolidated data assets.