Snowflake Announces Global Startup Challenge to Fuel Next Generation of Apps in the Data Cloud
18 November 2020 - 5:45AM
Business Wire
Winner may receive up to $250,000 investment
and global exposure to an audience of data experts, venture
capitalists and more
Snowflake, creator of the Data Cloud, today announced its
first-ever global Startup Challenge. The Startup Challenge invites
early stage organizations that are building applications in the
Snowflake Data Cloud to showcase their innovations via online
submission, for a chance to be one of three finalists that will
pitch to an audience of judges at Snowflake Summit in Summer 2021.
The winner of the Startup Challenge may receive up to a $250,000
investment from Snowflake along with access to a global network of
resources including venture capitalists and data experts.
Snowflake’s single, integrated platform enables startups to
focus on building their data applications, without the burden of
managing complex infrastructure. Software teams in hundreds of
startups and enterprises are already innovating in the Data Cloud,
leveraging the global network where thousands of organizations
mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and
performance, to help their customers acquire new users, uncover
security threats, build machine learning models, analyze IOT data,
and more.
“Snowflake’s architecture makes it an ideal platform for
developing data applications and we continue to be impressed with
how application builders innovate to launch their own data products
in the Data Cloud,” Snowflake Co-Founder and President of Products,
Benoit Dageville said. “This competition will showcase the power of
data network effects while also expanding their reach. We look
forward to rewarding a top startup who both embodies and employs
the Snowflake vision: To mobilize the world’s data.”
Startups that take part in the Snowflake Startup Competition
will be evaluated based on a set of criteria, including business
potential, level of innovation, and the use of Snowflake’s unique
capabilities for their product. The final three competitors will
pitch to a live audience (either in-person or virtually) at
Snowflake Summit in Summer 2021. Snowflake Chief Marketing Officer,
Denise Persson, Snowflake Co-Founder and President of Product,
Benoit Dageville, and venture capital investors Mike Speiser with
Sutter Hill Ventures and Carl Eschenbach with Sequoia Capital will
judge the competition and pick a winner.
Snowflake’s platform provides many capabilities for
startups--including separation of compute and storage,
auto-scaling, per-second pricing, native support for
semi-structured data, and secure data sharing--to help build
differentiated applications, faster. Additionally, startups can
leverage integrations with a broad range of technology partners in
the Snowflake ecosystem.
Learn more about the Snowflake Startup Competition and review
the Official Rules.
About Snowflake
Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where
thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale,
concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations
unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share
governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever
data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless
experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is
the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud,
creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data
engineering, data science, data application development, and data
sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers
already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.
Snowflake.com.
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