Company Intelligence
Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that enables data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, and data application development. The company's architecture separates storage and compute, allowing customers to scale each independently.
Data & Analytics
Headquarters
Bozeman, MT
Employees
~7,000
Revenue
$3.4B (FY2025)
Fiscal Year End
January 31
Founded
2012
Current leadership team based on public filings and announcements.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO
Mike Scarpelli
CFO
Grzegorz Czajkowski
EVP of Engineering
Christian Kleinerman
EVP of Product
Chris Degnan
Chief Revenue Officer
Sunny Bedi
CIO
Key events and changes that sales teams should know about.
Sridhar Ramaswamy continued reshaping product strategy after replacing Frank Slootman as CEO in February 2024, with increased focus on AI/ML workloads.
2024-11
Cortex AI features, including Cortex Search and Cortex Analyst, reached general availability, enabling customers to build AI applications directly on Snowflake data.
2024-12
Q3 FY2025 product revenue grew 29% YoY to $900M, with net revenue retention rate at 127%, indicating strong expansion within existing accounts.
2024-11
Announced deeper partnerships with Anthropic and Mistral AI to bring large language models natively into the Snowflake platform.
2024-10
Expanded AI research and engineering teams, with a focus on hiring ML engineers and AI product managers to accelerate Cortex development.
2024-09
Snowflake is a high-growth cloud data company with a consumption-based revenue model, meaning its internal technology spending scales directly with platform usage. With ~7,000 employees and rapid revenue growth, Snowflake is actively expanding its infrastructure, security, and internal tooling. The company's fiscal year ends January 31, so Q4 budget cycles run from November through January. Snowflake's engineering-led culture means technical evaluations carry significant weight in purchasing decisions.
The CEO transition from Frank Slootman to Sridhar Ramaswamy in early 2024 marked a strategic shift toward AI and developer-focused use cases. This creates opportunities for vendors selling AI infrastructure, model serving platforms, developer tools, and data governance solutions. Snowflake's Cortex AI initiative means the company is investing heavily in making AI accessible within its platform, opening doors for complementary technology partners.
Snowflake competes aggressively with Databricks, and this rivalry drives significant spending on both product differentiation and go-to-market capabilities. Sales teams should be aware that Snowflake's procurement team is sophisticated, often benchmarking vendors against alternatives. The company values measurable performance improvements and TCO analysis over relationship-based selling. Technical proof-of-concepts are typically required before any significant purchase.
Key competitors based on market analysis and public filings.
Snowflake's fiscal year ends on January 31. FY2025 runs from February 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025. This means Q4 budget decisions and year-end purchasing happen primarily in December and January.
Snowflake is on track to report approximately $3.4 billion in product revenue for FY2025 (ending January 31, 2025), representing about 28-30% year-over-year growth. The company uses a consumption-based pricing model, so revenue growth reflects increasing data platform usage.
Snowflake is incorporated in Bozeman, Montana, though the company maintains significant offices in San Mateo, California, which serves as its operational hub. Other major offices are located in Bellevue, WA, Dublin, Ireland, and Berlin, Germany.
Snowflake employs approximately 7,000 people as of early 2025. The company has been selectively growing headcount with a focus on AI/ML engineering and enterprise sales roles following the CEO transition in early 2024.
Sridhar Ramaswamy became CEO of Snowflake in February 2024, succeeding Frank Slootman. Ramaswamy previously led Snowflake's AI initiatives after joining through the Neeva acquisition. Before that, he was SVP of Ads and Commerce at Google.
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