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Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal

Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon’s custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More

S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups

Friends and colleagues remembered S. “Soma” Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft developer leader and Madrona managing director, as a generous mentor to developers and founders, and a fixture of Seattle’s tech community. Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft leader named CEO at WPP; Snowflake taps SVP; Absci adds board member

— Cindy Rose, Microsoft’s chief operating officer for global enterprise sales, is leaving the tech behemoth to become CEO of… Read More

It’s Snowflake season in Bellevue as cloud giant puts cool touches on major new office space

Even with summer heating up, it feels a lot like winter in the Spring District. Snowflake, the cloud computing and… Read More

Snowflake moving into larger office in Bellevue to support growth plans

Cloud computing and data giant Snowflake confirmed that it will move into a new office in Bellevue, Wash., next year… Read More

Podcast

Data’s destiny: Former Microsoft and Snowflake exec Bob Muglia on the future of AI and humanity

This week: the origins of data, and the future of the digital species. Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast is… Read More

Database giant Snowflake closes deal to acquire tools from Mobilize.net

Snowflake closed its deal to acquire a suite of migration tools called SnowConvert from Bellevue, Wash.-based software maker Mobilize.net. Mobilize’s… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Snowflake, Madrona and a giant IPO; Bill Gates Sr.’s legacy; Apple, UW and COVID

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: Snowflake, the data warehousing company, came out with a… Read More

Snowflake stock soars in largest software IPO ever; Madrona among earlier venture investors

Snowflake came out with a bang in its public debut, raising $3.4 billion in the largest software IPO ever. The… Read More

Cloud startup Snowflake reveals financials in IPO filing as it battles Amazon, Microsoft, others

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the… Read More

Data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing is aiming to go public. Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the company has… Read More

Cloud data platform giant Snowflake raises $479M at $12.4B valuation, partners with Salesforce

Data warehousing startup Snowflake Computing announced a $479 million funding round that gives the cloud company a whopping $12.4 billion… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2018: Vote for the newcomer that made the biggest splash

Seattle’s seen a lot of newcomers over the last few years. And now it’s time to celebrate a few of… Read More

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The Week in Geek: Uber wins a round in Seattle union fight, Bertha gets her big break, and cloud startups land cash

The City of Seattle celebrated a big win this week, and one small loss. First up: Bertha, the one-of-a-kind tunnel… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $45M for data warehousing startup Snowflake

Snowflake Computing announced today that it raised $45 million, with the company saying that it will use the funding to continue… Read More