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Unlock your data potential with a strategic investment from Snowflake

Introducing Snowflake Ventures, a new way to
link your growth and success to the Data Cloud

Snowflake Ventures is born from our deep-seated belief in the Data Cloud’s network effect. The more organizations harness the power of the Data Cloud, the faster we innovate together. Our aim is to foster this innovation through investing in companies that demonstrate a commitment to mobilizing data, provide value to our customers, and expand opportunities for the Data Cloud.

Your success is our success. Let’s mobilize data together.

INVESTMENT Criteria

  • Value-add: Your solution must align with and add value to the Data Cloud
  • Growth stage: Raising an institutional round of financing (Series A to pre-IPO) with an identified lead investor
  • Partnership: We are looking for organizations that are eager to collaborate around data
  • Investment: Typical investments range between $1 million and $20 million

Why Partner with Snowflake Ventures

 

 

Access to and insights from Snowflake leaders and experts
Enhanced exposure within the Data Cloud’s ecosystem 
Go-to-market alignment and Snowflake Partner Network opportunities 
Operational guidance on business issues and best practices

Portfolio Companies

Alation is a leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.

Anaconda is the world’s most popular data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning. With more than 25 million users, we pioneered the use of Python for data science, championed its vibrant community, and continue to steward open-source projects that make tomorrow’s innovations possible.

Bodo provides a parallel compute platform providing extreme scale and speed, but with the simplicity and flexibility of using native Python. In contrast to using libraries and frameworks, Bodo generates automatic parallelism and high efficiency surpassing 10,000+ cores. And it can be used with popular analytics libraries such as Pandas, NumPy SciKit Learn, and more.

Collibra unites entire organizations by delivering trusted data for every use, for every user and across every source. The Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud brings flexible governance, continuous quality and built-in privacy to all types of data.

Dataiku is the world’s leading AI and machine learning platform, supporting agility in organizations’ data efforts via collaborative, elastic, and responsible AI, all at enterprise scale. Hundreds of companies use Dataiku to underpin their essential business operations and ensure they stay relevant in a changing world.

DataOps.live is the leading provider of Snowflake environment management, end-to-end orchestration, CI/CD, automated testing & observability, and code management wrapped in an elegant developer interface. Faster development, parallel collaboration, increased efficiencies, reduced costs, data assurance, simplified orchestration and full data product lifecycle management are the result.

DataRobot is a leading enterprise AI platform that democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.

dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow.

Habu’s data clean room software empowers brands to work in distributed data environments to glean insights and execute advanced use cases with minimal resources. By streamlining and accelerating data collaboration between partners, Habu enables companies to increase the velocity and value of data-driven initiatives.

Hex is a platform for collaborative analytics and data science. Hex brings together SQL, Python, R and no-code in powerful notebooks, and allows users to 1-click publish projects as interactive data apps that anyone can use.

Hunters delivers Extended Detection and Response (XDR) technology that integrates with existing security tools to detect threats across endpoints, cloud, email, network and more.

Knoema maintains one of the most comprehensive sources of global public decision-making data, comprising 3.9 billion data points sourced from 52,000 data sets, allowing businesses to easily unlock their value.

Lacework delivers security and compliance for the cloud generation, offering build-time to run-time threat detection, behavioral anomaly detection, and cloud compliance across AWS, GCP and Azure.

OverlayAnalytics offers a single unified platform to deliver enhanced financial reporting to modern financial and operations teams, allowing for clients to spend their time making decisions instead of debating them. OverlayAnalytics is the winner of the 2021 Snowflake Startup Challenge.

Panther Labs provides a fast, flexible, and scalable platform for threat detection and incident response, capable of analyzing terabytes of data per day in real-time. With a cloud-native architecture, Snowflake data lake, and detection-as-code, Panther delivers the security monitoring platform that modern security teams need.

Quantifind enables financial crimes investigators and analysts to make better decisions, faster, with intelligent automation.

Robling makes retail more responsive, personalized and tuned in to customers through better data and insight. Robling’s mission is to destroy data silos unlocking millions of dollars in new revenue, increased profit, and more efficiency when retailers and CPG companies become data driven on the Robling platform.

Securonix is redefining threat detection and response for today’s hybrid cloud, data-driven enterprise. Securonix Next-Gen SIEM and XDR are powered by the most advanced analytics and built on a scalable, flexible cloud-native architecture. Securonix leverages behavioral analytics technology that pioneered the UEBA category to reduce noise, prioritize high fidelity alerts, and enable fast and precise response to insider and cyber threats.

Sigma enables enterprise users to engage directly with Snowflake through its intuitive spreadsheet interface. Enterprise and technical users can collaborate, build models, visualize data and present through Sigma’s Workbooks platform.

ThoughtSpot is a leader in search and AI-driven analytics, empowering users to surface insights generated from across the enterprise, or create new data driven insights through simple natural language.

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“The partnership and investment from Snowflake Ventures will strengthen our joint value proposition by delivering a seamless product experience coupled with best practices around how to deliver data governance.”

Satyen Sangani

CEO and co-founder, Alation

“Anaconda’s partnership with Snowflake will help to further equip the Python community with tools to build secure and scalable data pipelines and machine learning workflows.”

Peter Wang

CEO and co-founder, Anaconda

“The Snowflake Ventures investment and deepening integration with Snowflake’s Data Cloud will provide our joint customers with a faster, better path to unlock the power of AI and machine learning and adapt, scale and meet the new challenges of tomorrow.”

Florian Douetteau

CEO, Dataiku

“DataOps.live is enabling leading enterprise and mid-tier Snowflake customers to orchestrate their Snowflake data platforms, and build, test ,and deploy data applications on the Snowflake Data Cloud. This investment from Snowflake further strengthens our long-term partnership and vision of increased developer agility with zero compromise on governance.”

Justin Mullen

CEO & Co-founder , DataOps.live

“The investment from Snowflake Ventures’ is further validation of our platform. Our deep partnership will enhance our ability to deliver massive value for joint customers through unlocking the power of their data and accelerate our vision of transforming all businesses with AI.”

Dan Wright

President & COO, DataRobot

“We see organizations unlock the power of data when more humans are able to participate in analytics workflows. Snowflake’s turnkey scalability combined with dbt’s focus on the analytics engineer has always been a winning combination for the dbt Community. We’re excited to continue to deepen our partnership with Snowflake.”

Tristan Handy

CEO & Founder , Dbt Labs

Habu’s partnership with Snowflake empowers companies to effectively leverage the power of data collaboration to deliver rapid and optimal results, all while the data remains where it resides in Snowflake. The investment from Snowflake Ventures is further validation of Habu’s no code, low code application suite and will strengthen our joint best in class solution.

Matt Kilmartin

Co-founder & CEO, Habu

“We’re excited to partner with Snowflake Ventures to continue to drive value for our many shared customers, who already rely on us to make it even easier to work with and derive insights from data.”

Barry McCardel

Ceo And Co-Founder, HEX

“We are excited to partner with Snowflake Ventures to continue innovating in the cybersecurity space, and deliver an open XDR platform that serves a technological leap in threat detection and response.”

Uri May

CEO, Hunters

“With the investment and support from Snowflake Ventures, we are able to empower all of our users with the best possible experience around data discovery, visualization and management from within the Snowflake data cloud.”

Charles Poliacof

CEO, Knoema

“This investment solidifies the longstanding Snowflake and Lacework relationship and confidence in the ability to build and scale market-moving companies with modern data processing.”

Dan Hubbard

CEO, Lacework

“The investment by Snowflake has further solidified our partnership to help customers achieve fast, flexible, and scalable threat detection and response for the cloud-first world.”

Jack Naglieri

Founder & CEO, Panther

“Snowflake Ventures’ investment is a huge validation of our technology. It will enable us to further fuel the rapid adoption of our powerful compliance and risk solution running on top of Snowflake’s industry-leading data cloud.”

Ari Tuchman

CEO, Quantifind

“Our partnership with Snowflake will provide Robling the ability to scale up and rise to meet these challenges by offering an enterprise unified data model, addressing the problem of data silos in the retail and CPG industries”

Jeff Buck

CEO, Robling 

“Sigma was one of the first companies to be built natively on Snowflake, and the strategic investment will allow us to continue to leverage cloud analytics and business intelligence to advance the future of work, decision-making, and data analysis.”

Mike Palmer

CEO, Sigma

“The cloud revolution is a fundamental shift organizations must make to be customer-centric, agile, and efficient. We are excited to be partnering with Snowflake Ventures to empower employees with data-driven insights.”

Sudheesh Nair

CEO, ThoughtSpot

“Securonix is the leader in cloud-native security analytics and operations. The Snowflake Ventures investment and strengthened integration improves customers’ ability to achieve advanced threat detection and response at cloud scale without the cost and technical limitations of traditional SIEM solutions.”

Sachin Nayyar

CEO, Securonix

INNOVATE IN THE DATA CLOUD

Snowflake Startup Challenge brings together early-stage startups to build applications and products in the Snowflake Data Cloud. The startups compete and the winner may receive up to a $250K investment from Snowflake, along with marketing exposure, exposure to top tier VCs and more!

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Snowflake Invests in Securonix, Combining the Power of the Data Cloud with Next-Generation SIEM

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Snowflake Invests in Hex to Boost Collaboration on Data Projects, Analytics and Apps

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Snowflake Invests In dbt Labs, Cementing Our Partnership And Paving The Way For More Innovation Ahead

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Snowflake Invests in DataOps.live, Further Increasing Agility and Security for the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Collibra to Expand the Reach of Data Governance

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Sigma Computing To Ensure Continued Broad Access to the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Panther to Add Detection As Code to the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Habu to Modernize Data Collaboration for Advertising Solutions in the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Partners with and Invests in Anaconda to Bring Enterprise-Grade Open-Source Python Innovation to the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Robling to Add More Retail Capabilities to the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Alation to Expand Visibility, Trust and Security for Enterprise Data

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Dataiku, Bringing Further AI Capabilities to the Data Cloud

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in ThoughtSpot to Help Enterprises Use Data to Transform the Way They Work

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Snowflake Ventures Breaks Down Security Data Silos With Lacework

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Investment in Knoema Puts Global Public Data Sets At Snowflake Users’ Fingertips

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Snowflake Ventures Expands the Cybersecurity Data Cloud with Hunters

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Datarobot to Supercharge Machine Learning in the Snowflake Data Cloud

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