Snowflake Computing, a startup that has built data warehouse software based in the Amazon Web Services cloud, announced a new $45 million funding round and made its software generally available.
Snowflake made a big splash when it came out of stealth mode in October with $26 million in funding and a superstar chief executive, Microsoft veteran Bob Muglia.
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Meanwhile Amazon Web Services, where Snowflake’s software currently resides, offers the Redshift cloud data warehouse service. And there are other cloud data warehousing startups, such as BitYota.
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Snowflake Computing started in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, Calif. To date the startup has raised at least $71 million.
Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Wing Ventures participated in the new funding round.
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