Snowflake Opens New Office in France to Accelerate Data and AI Innovation

New French headquarters reinforce Snowflake's long-term commitment across the French ecosystem of enterprises, SMBs and partners

• Establishing the Agentic Enterprise: Snowflake investment in the region supports French organizations in era of the agentic enterprise, bringing more AI use cases into production to drive business outcomes

• French roots to global impact: founded by two French entrepreneurs, Snowflake now supports more than 530 local enterprise and SMB customers to do more with data and AI

• Investing to support complex customer needs: Achieved HDS Certification to support health data workloads for healthcare and lifescience organisations, with eight of France's leading healthcare organizations already using Snowflake

Paris, July 2, 2026 – Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today announced the opening of its new French headquarters in central Paris, to support the continued growth of Snowflake in France, and equip customers to maximise business outcomes and value from their AI and data investments. This new milestone marks an important step in the company's development across Europe, reflecting its long-term commitment to the French market and supporting wider global momentum.

Located at 44 Rue de Châteaudun in Paris's 9th arrondissement, near the Opéra Garnier, Snowflake's new French headquarters are the first in France to be specifically designed to reflect the company's identity, culture, and values. Spanning 2,700 square meters, the offices include collaborative workspaces, meeting rooms, and dedicated areas for customer and partner engagement. They will support Snowflake's continued growth in France and provide a venue for customer events, technical workshops, training sessions, and ecosystem initiatives focused on data and AI, at a time when French organizations are increasingly looking to scale AI use cases and bring new capabilities into production.

The opening of Snowflake's French headquarters comes as the French data and AI ecosystem continues to gain momentum, driven by innovative startups, growing enterprise investment, world-class research capabilities, and the country's ability to attract technology talent, reinforcing France's position as one of Europe's leading innovation hubs.

"France has tremendous strengths in data and AI, and we want to contribute to this momentum by remaining as close as possible to the people and organizations driving it," said Arnaud Chiffert, Country Manager, France at Snowflake. "These new offices represent much more than a new workplace. They reflect Snowflake's identity and our ambition to create a space where employees, customers, partners, and members of the broader ecosystem can meet, exchange ideas, and innovate together."

France at the Heart of Snowflake's Data and AI Strategy

Today, Snowflake supports more than 530 customers* within its growing enterprise and commercial customer base in France, including Sanofi, Accor and TF1, and works closely with a strong ecosystem of local and global partners. France continues to play an important role in Snowflake's growth across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

The new Paris office will further strengthen Snowflake's support for the French innovation ecosystem through initiatives, including Snowflake Ventures, its long-standing partnership with Station F and its F/ai programme, and Snowflake for Startups. The company continues to support French startups through dedicated programs and works with more than 25 companies recognized in the French Tech Next40/120, including Alan, GitGuardian, Hublo, Mistertemp' Group, and Shippeo. Snowflake also supports 50% of the top 20 companies featured in the 2026 FinTech 100 ranking.

Additionally, Snowflake works closely with a number of key French partners and leading venture capital firms, including Serena VC, XAnge, and Axeleo, to fuel the next generation of tech in France. Through Snowflake Ventures, Snowflake has also invested in two AI French companies, Mistral AI and Dust, deepening its commitment to the French technology ecosystem and its confidence in France as a global hub for AI innovation.

In addition to its new headquarters, Snowflake is expanding its presence in highly regulated sectors. Snowflake already works with a number of companies in the financial services sector in France, and has recently achieved Hébergeur de Données de Santé (HDS) Certification Version 2, reinforcing its ability to support healthcare and life sciences organizations with secure and compliant healthcare workloads on Snowflake. Today, eight of France's leading healthcare and life sciences organizations already rely on Snowflake as part of their data strategy.

New Office Supports Global Growth Momentum

The opening comes amid strong global momentum for Snowflake, following the announcement of its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, ended April 30, 2026. A milestone quarter for the company, Snowflake reported total revenue of $1.39 billion, up 33% year over year, with product revenue of $1.33 billion, up 34% year over year, representing the largest sequential increase in absolute dollar value in the company's history. Snowflake also continues to see strong adoption of its AI capabilities, with more than 13,600 customer accounts globally using Snowflake AI features every week.

As Snowflake approaches nine years of operations in France, the company continues to support the growing adoption of data and AI initiatives among French organizations. Reflecting the strategic importance of the French market, Snowflake has grown its local team from just three employees in 2017 to around 175 today.

Founded in 2012 by two French co-founders, Benoît Dageville and Thierry Cruanes, whose innovations helped transform how organizations manage and derive value from data, Snowflake has become a leading global data and AI company. With AI fundamentally reshaping how work gets done, Snowflake is right at the center of that transformation. The opening of its new Paris headquarters further strengthens the company's commitment to supporting the organizations and innovators shaping the future of artificial intelligence in France and across Europe.

Customer Quotes

"For the TF1 Group, whose content engages millions of streaming users and television viewers, the ability to turn data into actionable insights is essential. Over the past three years, Snowflake has become a key driver of our growth, providing a trusted foundation that enables our teams to work from a single source of truth, accelerate the adoption of AI, and deliver more relevant experiences to both our audiences and our advertisers. Beyond the technology itself, what makes this collaboration so valuable is our ability to easily integrate each new capability. Snowflake's new offices in Paris will help further strengthen our collaboration as we continue to explore new ways to create value together." - François-Xavier PIERREL, Group Chief Data & Adtech Officer, Groupe TF1

"At Sanofi, data and artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly important role in our ability to accelerate innovation and transform the way we discover and develop new medicines. Close collaboration with technology partners such as Snowflake is essential to unlocking new opportunities, sharing expertise, and scaling AI across the organization. Snowflake's new offices in Paris will provide a valuable space for fostering collaboration and strengthening connections across France's innovation ecosystem." - Emmanuel Frenehard, Chief Digital Officer, Sanofi

*excludes self-service customers

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