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Snowpilot

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https://www.snowpilot.com

The connected spreadsheet that destroys data silos

Snowpilot combines a spreadsheet UI with a federated data engine. We get live data from tools like Salesforce, Gong, and Mixpanel, enabling PMs, marketers, and salespeople to run high-impact workflows with data at any scale. Ben and Dom met at a Sequoia & a16z-backed data startup, Census. Together, we built the first real-time, warehouse-native customer data platform. Prior to that, Dom led 20+ ML engineers at Adobe to build their internal ad optimization platform, which allocates $1B in annual spend. Ben built the microservices stack powering the new Microsoft Edge, scaling from 0 to hundreds of millions of DAUs. We started coding Snowpilot in mid-August '24, and we already have a live app that can run sub-second queries on millions of rows, entirely in the user's browser. The data warehouse market is $10B/yr, growing 23% YOY. We will disrupt incumbents and significantly expand this market by enabling non-engineers to use big data on a daily basis.
Snowpilot
Founded:2024
Team Size:2
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Aaron Epstein
   

Active Founders

Ben Warren, Co-founder

Co-founder & CTO of Snowpilot, the data warehouse that's as simple as a spreadsheet. Started as a software engineer at Microsoft, scaling the new Edge browser. After that, built next-gen data tooling at Census (backed by a16z & Sequoia).
Ben Warren
Ben Warren
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Dom Crosby, Co-founder & CEO

Dom Crosby is co-founder & CEO of Snowpilot, the Data Warehouse that's as simple as a spreadsheet. Starting his career as an analyst for the UK Ministry of Defence, he has since worked in Big Data and ML for the last decade leading product for high profile ML and data solutions at Adobe & Census (Sequoia & a16z backed.)
Dom Crosby
Dom Crosby
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Snowpilot: The connected spreadsheet that destroys data silos

TL;DR: We’ve combined a spreadsheet UI with a federated data engine. Snowpilot gets live data from tools like Salesforce, Gong, and Mixpanel, enabling PMs, marketers, and salespeople to run high-impact workflows with data at any scale.

Hey everyone, we’re Ben and Dom. We met at a Sequoia & a16z-backed data startup, Census. Together, we built the first real-time, warehouse-native customer data platform. Prior to that, Dom led 20+ ML engineers at Adobe to build their internal ad optimization platform, which allocates $1B in annual spend. Ben built the microservices stack powering the new Microsoft Edge, scaling from 0 to hundreds of millions of DAUs.

Locked up data = blocked deals 🤬

You want to see which sales deals are blocked by a Jira ticket? Good luck.

We worked at the world’s best companies, and they all had the same problem. Deals and features went awry because non-engineers were blocked on basic questions across customers, products, and deals. In theory, all of the data was in Snowflake, but in practice…

  • Salespeople didn’t know what engineers were building
  • PMs couldn’t get a list of user feedback
  • Support didn’t know which bugs mattered most

We accepted that queries had to go through some “data guy”. This meant that most questions were never answered, deals were lost, and the wrong features were built.

We simplify data access, 10x’ing business velocity ✅

With Snowpilot, we’ve taken the much-loved spreadsheet interface and made it as powerful as Snowflake. Snowpilot feels like using Excel or Notion databases, but without the limitations:

  • Connected to live data from sources like Salesforce, Zendesk, and Gong
  • Simple interface that abstracts away complex operations, joins, grouping, pivots, and deduplication
  • Scales to infinity

Demo

https://youtu.be/NwXMyVDvHNc

Solving data engineering, forever

For decades, business users have been bottlenecked on the data guy. We’re ending that.

The UX landscape has been opened up by a few key tech advancements:

  • Fast, in-memory columnar query engines (DuckDB, DataFusion)
  • Standardized data formats (Apache Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg)
  • LLM-automated grunt work (picking join keys, data cleaning, schema mapping)

Snowpilot is solving data engineering, forever. And we couldn’t be more pumped to make it happen.

Try the Snowpilot demo today

To get a taste, check out our live demo: https://app.snowpilot.com