<s>
Snowflake	B-General_Concept
Inc	I-General_Concept
.	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
–	O
based	O
data	O
cloud	B-Architecture
company	O
based	O
in	O
Bozeman	O
,	O
Montana	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
firm	O
offers	O
a	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
data	O
storage	O
and	O
analytics	O
service	O
,	O
generally	O
termed	O
"	O
data-as-a-service	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
allows	O
corporate	O
users	O
to	O
store	O
and	O
analyze	O
data	O
using	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
hardware	O
and	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
runs	O
on	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
since	O
2014	O
,	O
on	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
since	O
2018	O
and	O
on	O
the	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
since	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
was	O
ranked	O
first	O
on	O
the	O
Forbes	O
Cloud	B-Architecture
100	O
in	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Snowflake	B-General_Concept
Inc	I-General_Concept
.	I-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
July	O
2012	O
in	O
San	O
Mateo	O
,	O
California	O
by	O
three	O
data	O
warehousing	O
experts	O
:	O
Benoît	O
Dageville	O
,	O
Thierry	O
Cruanes	O
and	O
Marcin	O
Żukowski	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Dageville	O
and	O
Cruanes	O
previously	O
worked	O
as	O
data	O
architects	O
at	O
Oracle	B-Application
Corporation	I-Application
;	O
Żukowski	O
was	O
a	O
co-founder	O
of	O
the	O
Dutch	O
start-up	O
Vectorwise	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
's	O
first	O
CEO	B-Application
was	O
Mike	O
Speiser	O
,	O
a	O
venture	O
capitalist	O
at	O
Sutter	O
Hill	O
Ventures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2014	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
appointed	O
former	O
Microsoft	O
executive	O
Bob	O
Muglia	O
as	O
CEO	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2015	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
raised	O
an	O
additional	O
$45	O
million	O
and	O
launched	O
its	O
first	O
product	O
,	O
its	O
cloud	B-Architecture
data	O
warehouse	O
,	O
to	O
the	O
public	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2019	O
,	O
Frank	O
Slootman	O
,	O
the	O
retired	O
former	O
CEO	B-Application
of	O
ServiceNow	B-General_Concept
,	O
joined	O
Snowflake	O
as	O
its	O
CEO	B-Application
and	O
Michael	O
Scarpelli	O
,	O
the	O
former	O
CFO	O
of	O
ServiceNow	B-General_Concept
joined	O
the	O
company	O
as	O
CFO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2019	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
ranked	O
first	O
on	O
LinkedIn	B-Application
's	O
2019	O
U.S.	O
list	O
of	O
Top	O
Startups	O
.	O
</s>
