Snowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capital

Snowflake plans to extend its Startup Accelerator with a $ 200 million addition Says ThursdayThe

The new injection of capital follows a string of activity by Snowflake for the past several months that depicts the ambition of the agency’s growth.

Snowflake Startup Accelerator, formerly known by the Snowflake Funding Program, invests in a wide range of startups in the early stages. Significantly, the Accelerator invests Snowflake in startups for making AI-based industrial specific products. Startups in Accelerator receives access to technical assistance and co-marketing opportunities from Snowflake, as well as Amazon’s Public Cloud, AWS credit.

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Bain Capital Ventures, Blackstone Innovations Investments, Bassema Ventures Partners, Capital One Ventures, General Catalists, Grailc Partners, Hetz Ventures, Mafield, Newbold Ventures, NTVC and Veru are new and newly 200 million dollars.

There are some subtle prints to be aware. Snowflake mentions in a blog post that VC companies are while taking part in May Invest in Snowflake Startup Accelerator Companies, there is no “guarantee” that a particular company will get funds or the full target amount will be invested.

Snowflake, which Also announce the plan A new 30,000 square foot “AI Hub” and a 20 million dollar AI upscing program on the Menlo Park campus continues to invest in AI. Earlier this week, the company announced an extended partnership with Microsoft to provide access to AI models from OpenAI. At the end of the last year, Snowflake is an ethnic and acquired in a multi-year-old partnership DatavoloAn AI data pipeline firm.

Snowflake’s strategy seems to be off. The company has lost the estimate for Wall Street analyst for its most recent fiscal year (Q4 2024), earning $ 987 million.