# Snowflake Inc

Headquartered in the Silicon Valley San Francisco Bay Area of San Mateo, Snowflake Inc is a cloud-based data storage, analytics, SaaS and software company that was founded in July 2012. The company provides businesses with a single, integrated and highly secure platform. It fuses data warehousing with flexible big data platforms and cloud computing at highly competitive prices, ***freeing businesses from relying on databases tied to hardware.***