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Founded by Benoît Dageville in 2012.1
History
Snowflake Inc. was founded on July 23, 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, served as its first CEO.
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. Snowflake has run on Amazon Web Services since 2014, on Microsoft Azure since 2018, and on the Google Cloud Platform since 2019. In June 2015, Snowflake launched its first product, its cloud data warehouse.
In May 2019, Frank Slootman, formerly CEO of ServiceNow, joined Snowflake as its CEO. In June 2019, the company launched Snowflake Data Exchange. In December 2020, the company added Knoema as a data provider in the Snowflake Data Marketplace. In May 2021, the company became a distributed company, with a principal executive office in Bozeman, Montana.
On February 28, 2024, Frank Slootman retired as CEO and was replaced by Neeva's cofounder Sridhar Ramaswamy. In February 2026, Snowflake reported Q4 fiscal 2026 product revenue of $1.23 billion, up 30% year-over-year, with full-year product revenue reaching $4.72 billion. Remaining performance obligations totaled $9.77 billion, a 42% increase, reflecting strong demand for AI infrastructure. The company reported over 9,100 accounts using Snowflake AI features.
2024 data breach
In 2024, hundreds of customers of Snowflake were targeted as part of a mass customer data theft and extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters hacking group. Data breaches affected Ticketmaster, Advance Auto Parts, Santander Bank, Neiman Marcus, LendingTree, AT&T, Pure Storage, and Bausch Health. In May 2024, Snowflake collaborated with Mandiant in an investigation which found no evidence of Snowflake's environment being breached but rather customer credentials being compromised.
Two men were involved in the hacking conspiracy that were a part of the ShinyHunters hacking group. Connor Riley Moucka aka Waifu/Catist, 25, of Kitchener, Ontario, and John Erin Binns aka IRDev. Moucka was arrested on October 30, 2024; a Washington state court has issued an indictment on charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, extortion, and aggravated identity theft. In August 2026, Moucka pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced on October 27, 2026. The aggravated identity theft charge carries a mandatory minimum two-year prison term.
From Wikipedia’s article on Snowflake Inc., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.8
