US-based data warehousing software provider Snowflake Computing completed a $263m growth round yesterday featuring Capital One Growth Ventures, a corporate venture capital vehicle for financial services provider Capital One.
The round was co-led by multi-family office Iconiq Capital, investment firm Altimeter Capital and VC firm Sequoia Capital, and included Madrona Venture Group, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing Ventures. It was closed at a $1.5bn pre-money valuation.
Snowflake has created a cloud-based data warehousing software product that can store and rapidly analyse large amounts of data in a single place. It runs on the Amazon Web Services platform and is scalable so more data, users and workloads can always be added.
The company intends to use the new funding to expand its research and development team as well as its business operations across the North America, European Union and Asia Pacific regions. It also expects to introduce new products.
Bob Muglia, Snowflake’s chief executive, said: “Snowflake’s vision, which began with the data warehouse built for the cloud, has gained significant traction with enterprises across dozens of industries.
“Today’s announcement further validates Snowflake’s continued mission to enable a true data economy by removing the barriers that prevent enterprises from easily acquiring insight from all their data no matter where that data resides.”
The round boosted the company’s overall funding to $473m and came after a $105m series D round that closed in September 2017 with a $5m investment by Capital One Growth Ventures.
Iconiq Capital led the series D round, which also featured all of the latest investors apart from Sequoia Capital.