Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park. It operates a platform that supports data analysis and simultaneous access to data sets with minimal latency. It operates on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 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.