Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform, often described as a "Data Cloud," that has expanded into enterprise AI tooling for querying, governing, and building AI agents directly on top of customer data. The company was founded on July 23, 2012 in San Mateo, California by Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Żukowski.
Snowflake trades publicly on the NYSE under the ticker SNOW, with a market capitalization near $119 billion as of late September 2026. Sridhar Ramaswamy has served as CEO since February 2024, and the company's Cortex AI suite reported more than 9,100 accounts using it as of fiscal 2026, including a new Cortex AI Gateway launched in July 2026 for governing enterprise AI agents.