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WIN UP TO $250,000 AND GLOBAL EXPOSURE

Registered your interest? Make sure to also submit your application here before March 30 to qualify

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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! See the official rules for details.

Hundreds of startups and SaaS companies are already building on Snowflake and taking advantage of the Data Cloud. Learn why.

The Timeline
  • November 17, 2020: Registration opens
  • March 30, 2021: Deadline to submit application
  • April 30, 2021: Up to 10 semi-finalists announced
  • May 21, 2021: 3 Finalists announced after reviewing investor pitches
  • Summer 2021: Pitch and grand prize winner announced

Register your interest to have access to an extended trial with $400 in credits, developer resources, and support.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

The Prizes

Up to $250,000 potential investment
Co-marketing opportunities
(plus final 3 prizes)

Feature on select marketing channels
Present at Snowflake Summit
(plus semi-finalist prize)

Blog featuring your application and team
2 free passes for Snowflake Summit

the Judges

See Bio

Benoit Dageville

Co-Founder, Snowflake

See Bio

Mike Speiser

Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

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Carl Eschenbach

Partner, Sequoia Capital

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Denise Persson

CMO, Snowflake

Benoit Dageville

Co-Founder, Snowflake

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for over 10 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and holds more than 80 patents.

Mike Speiser

Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

Mike joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 2008 from Yahoo!, where he was Vice President of Community products. He joined Yahoo! through the acquisition of Bix, where he served as CEO. Previously, Mike was Vice President and Technical Advisor to Symantec’s Chairman & CEO. He also served as Vice President of Product Marketing and Product Management at VERITAS Software, which Symantec acquired. He also co-founded Epinions.com, worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and was an analyst with CS First Boston.

Carl Eschenbach

Partner, Sequoia Capital

Carl Eschenbach is a managing member at Sequoia, where he focuses on infrastructure technologies, cloud, and SaaS. He also provides operating expertise to Sequoia’s portfolio companies. Prior to Sequoia, Carl was President and COO of VMware, where he helped grow the company from $31M in his first full year to $7B in revenues and from 200 people to 20,000. Prior to joining VMware, Carl was Vice President of North America Sales at Inktomi, and held various sales leadership positions with 3Com, EMC and Lucent Technologies. He currently sits on the board of Zoom, Aurora, Armis, Cohesity, Snowflake, UiPath, Palo Alto Networks, Workday and ThousandEyes. He is passionate about leadership, culture and values of both teams and companies.

Denise Persson

CMO, Snowflake

Denise has 20 years of technology marketing experience at high-growth companies. Prior to joining Snowflake, she served as CMO for Apigee, an API platform company that went public in 2015 and Google acquired in 2016. She began her career at collaboration software company Genesys, where she built and led a global marketing organization. Denise also helped lead Genesys through its expansion to become a successful IPO and acquired company. Denise holds a BA in Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm University, and holds an MBA from Georgetown University.

What the Judges Are Looking for?

Business Potential

What is the market opportunity? Does it address an unmet need? Does it complement Snowflake?

Innovation

How unique is your application? What is your competitive advantage?

Snowflake Leverage

How does the startup leverage Snowflake? Does it leverage a broad set of Snowflake features?

The Team

Does your leadership team have the experience required and ability to execute?

What’s Required?

  • Build an application that is dependent on Snowflake as a core part of its architecture
  • Submit a demo video (up to 5 minutes) and a description of your application before the deadline
  • Semi-finalists will be required to submit an investor pitch video recording (up to 5 minutes) and provide access to their application
  • Be an entity with less than $2M in funding
  • Please review the official rules and FAQ for more details

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