Snowflake has appointed Sridhar Ramaswamy as CEO, replacing Frank Slootman to adapt to the generative AI market. This strategic shift aims to compete with…
After its record-breaking 2020 IPO, Snowflake faces a new kind of challenge. It is now a public company worth tens of billions of dollars,…
On September 16, 2020, Snowflake goes public, and it does so in spectacular fashion. The stock was priced at 120 dollars per share ahead…
Snowflake has raised 479 million dollars at a valuation of 12.4 billion dollars, in what looks likely to be its final private funding round…
Databricks grew from a seven-person startup into a serious cloud company, and its 140 million Series D, led by Andreessen Horowitz, reflects that. The…
The same year the Hadoop old guard is merging in retreat, Snowflake is doing the opposite: raising a 450 million dollar round that values…
Snowflake has stopped being a promising stealth startup and become one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. It has raised a large…
Not every important shift in the data world arrives as a billion-dollar funding round or a splashy product launch. Some arrive as a quiet…
After two years of near-total silence, Snowflake has come out of stealth and revealed what its three Oracle-veteran founders have been quietly building. It…
Amazon Web Services has launched Redshift, a cloud data warehouse, and in doing so quietly fired one of the opening shots of the modern…
Three data-warehouse experts who spent years at Oracle have walked away to build the thing they believe Oracle never will: a database designed from…
The same year Amazon launches Redshift and Snowflake is founded, Google makes its own data warehouse, BigQuery, generally available. Three of the most important…