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    Snowflake

    Data + AI Platform Providers

    Placed in 1 PeMa market and a Leader in 1 of them, with its strongest showing in Data + AI Platform Providers.

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    2012

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    Menlo Park, California, USA

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    About Snowflake

    Snowflake, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, runs a cloud data platform that separates storage and compute and supports data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data sharing and application development across the major public clouds.

    Its AI Data Cloud adds Cortex AI services, agents and coding assistants on governed enterprise data, along with a marketplace for third-party data. In September 2026 Snowflake reported 37% product revenue growth and raised its full-year forecast, priced $3.75 billion of convertible notes and expanded a five-year collaboration with LSEG. Customers span financial services, retail, healthcare, media and the public sector, including 828 that each spend more than $1 million a year. AIM Research places Snowflake as a Leader in Data + AI Platform Providers, reflecting its large enterprise base and fast-growing AI workloads.

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    Website snowflake.com

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    What changed lately

    Snowflake Q2 FY27 product revenue grows 37% and full-year guidance rises

    Snowflake reported second quarter fiscal 2027 product revenue of $1.49 billion, up 37% year on year, with total revenue of $1.55 billion and remaining performance obligations of $9 billion. Customers spending over $1 million annually rose 27% to 828. The company raised its full-year product revenue forecast to $6.07 billion and lifted its operating margin target.

    Buyer takeawayAccelerating consumption suggests customers are expanding AI and data workloads on Snowflake, which supports its long-term viability as a strategic platform choice.

    LSEG and Snowflake expand five-year collaboration on financial data and AI

    Snowflake and LSEG announced an expanded five-year enterprise collaboration at Snowflake World Tour London. LSEG increases its use of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud across its data, analytics and risk businesses, while Snowflake will license LSEG World-Check for its own customer onboarding. Joint customers can combine licensed LSEG content with their own data for governed analytics and AI.

    Buyer takeawayFinancial services firms on Snowflake get easier governed access to LSEG content for AI and analytics work without building separate data pipelines.

    Snowflake prices upsized $3.75bn convertible notes offering

    Snowflake priced an upsized private placement of $3.75 billion in convertible senior notes, one day after proposing a $3.5 billion offering. The raise follows a quarter of faster product revenue growth and gives the company additional capital for investment in its AI data platform and other corporate purposes.

    Buyer takeawayThe added capital gives Snowflake more room to fund AI product development and acquisitions, which reduces near-term vendor viability concerns for large customers.

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    Snowflake, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, runs a cloud data platform that separates storage and compute and supports data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data sharing and application development across the major public clouds. Its AI Data Cloud adds Cortex AI services, agents and coding assistants on governed enterprise data, along with a marketplace for third-party data.