Christophe Blefari

JULY 22, 2023

How to chat with data in Snowflake using ChatGPT, dbt, and Streamlit — Less boring, obviously when you put ChatGPT and dbt in the same sentence it creates buzz instantly. As cloud databases like Snowflake and BigQuery brought it years ago, this was mandatory for the Postgres stack. Classically boring stuff.

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Snowflake

MAY 1, 2023

A shared source of truth for data teams living in Snowflake. Each is the primary mission of a 2023 Snowflake Startup Challenge finalist! And be sure to register for Snowflake Summit so you can attend the live finale! Honeydew aims to provide a shared source of truth for data teams who live in Snowflake.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 8, 2024

Snowflake now support trailing commas and partners with Mistral AI to bring models to the warehouse, we also learn that Snowflake Ventures also invested in Mistral AI. Use Ibis to load data from other databases to Snowflake. Long gone are the days when mistral was French.

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Data Algorithm Database Education 130

Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 3, 2022

In this episode Brandon Beidel from Red Ventures shares his experiences as a data product manager in charge of helping his customers build scalable analytics systems that fit their needs. Joybird director of analytics, Brett Trani, will walk through how retooling their data stack with RudderStack, Snowflake, and Iterable made this possible.

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Snowflake

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The MDR landscape One side of the equation finds industry powerhouses like CrowdStrike, Microsoft and SentinelOne venturing into the MDR domain by bundling managed services with their popular solutions. This integration allows them to tap into the scalability, cost-effectiveness, and operational efficiency of platforms like Snowflake.

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 2, 2023

As a venture capital investor Matt Turck has been trying to keep track of the main trends and has compiled his findings into the MAD (ML, AI, and Data) landscape reports each year. Summary The data ecosystem has been building momentum for several years now.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 10, 2023

Experts from venture capital, Snowflake, and more discuss how generative AI will benefit data teams and the challenges they must solve. Data platforms like Snowflake are investing in how generative AI can not just generate SQL, but re-imagine the user-data experience. Image courtesy of the author. Generated by DiffusionBee.

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IT Unstructured Data SQL BI 81

Monte Carlo

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Sponsored by Snowflake , Databricks , Omni , and Workstream.io. The data space is evolving at break-neck speed, and IMPACT: The Data Observability Summit is returning to bring clarity to the chaos. That’s right, data leaders!

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Snowflake

MARCH 13, 2023

What started as a venture by three seasoned cybersecurity and cloud professionals—with support from venture group Team8—now offers an end-to-end infrastructure security solution combining data analytics with domain-specific cybersecurity expertise. Without Snowflake, it would have all moved much slower and been much more difficult.”

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 10, 2022

For the second consecutive year, Monte Carlo was today named to the Enterprise Tech 30 (ET30), an exclusive list of the most promising companies in enterprise technology, as determined by some of the world’s top venture capitalists. Sponsored by Wing Venture Capital and Nasdaq, more than 15,000 private venture-backed companies are considered.

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Technology Data 52

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Platform To my surprise, there is still no single vendor solution that has domain over the entire data vista, although Snowflake has been trying their best through acquisition and development efforts (Snowpipe, Snowpark, Snowplow). Streamlit has been so impressive that Snowflake acquired the company for nearly $1B in 2022.

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Monte Carlo

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And this year, we invited our good friend and famed venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz to share his data engineering predictions for 2024. As General Partner at Theory Ventures and an investor in Motherduck, Monte Carlo, and other trailblazing companies, Tomasz Tunguz knows a thing or two about predictions.

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Monte Carlo

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And this year, we invited our good friend and famed venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz to share his data engineering predictions for 2024. As General Partner at Theory Ventures and an investor in Motherduck, Monte Carlo, and other trailblazing companies, Tomasz Tunguz knows a thing or two about predictions.

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Amazon Web Services Metadata AWS Data 52

Snowflake

JANUARY 30, 2023

That all changed when Ramp switched to a scalable, simple data cloud with Snowflake. The challenge has been scaling to meet the needs of the largest venture capital firms and consumer organizations, while leaving room for its own business to grow. At every point, Snowflake has been an absolute joy to work with,” du Toit enthused.

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Monte Carlo

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll have talks from Nga Phan , SVP of Product Management at Salesforce AI, Tomasz Tunguz , General Partner at Theory Ventures, and Neta Iser, VP of Data and Integration at Navan (formerly TripActions) for fireside chats and presentations on how today’s data and AI leaders are going beyond the hype to operationalize enterprise-ready generative AI.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 24, 2022

Today, I’m excited to announce that Monte Carlo, the data reliability company, has raised $135M in Series D funding from IVP, with participation from Accel, GGV Capital, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, and GIC Singapore. Attending Snowflake Summit? Last year organizations spent $39.2

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Redpoint Ventures, backers of Snowflake and Looker, and GGV Capital, investors of HashiCorp and Slack, co-led this round with participation from Accel. This announcement comes shortly after our Series A financing, led by Accel in September, and brings our total funding to more than $40 million.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 20, 2024

If you are planning to venture into artificial intelligence , you may be wondering about your exact responsibilities. Working on cloud infrastructure like AWS and other data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake. I'm one of the thousands of people behind AI-powered tools and devices. Now, that's just a rough overview.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Organized by Wing Venture Capital, the Enterprise Tech 30 considers over 15,000 companies each year for this celebrated award, narrowing it down to just 30. In addition to Monte Carlo, former and current data companies in the Enterprise Tech 30 include Snowflake, Looker, Databricks, and Fivetran.

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 9, 2023

Data platforms like Snowflake are investing in how generative AI can not just generate SQL, but re-imagine the user-data experience. At Theory [his venture firm], we have something like 10,000 documents that we’ve collected on startups…. And even for people that do know SQL, it’s going to accelerate that process.

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IT Unstructured Data SQL BI 52

Monte Carlo

AUGUST 24, 2022

Launched last year as the world’s first-ever data observability event, IMPACT brought thousands of data professionals together to hear from the visionaries behind some of the data industry’s most defining technologies and approaches, including cloud data warehouses (Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake!),

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Data Engineering Weekly

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Motherbrain: Disrupting private capital using machine learning and an event-driven architecture The blog is an exciting one giving a peak into the private capital ventures approach to finding startup investment strategy. Let me know in the comments or DM me on LinkedIn [link].

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Monte Carlo

MAY 26, 2023

Red Ventures director of data engineering, Brandon Beidel, talked to us about this process saying: “We [would] start diving deep into discussions around data quality and how it impacted their day to day. For example, let’s assume you are using Snowflake as your data warehouse and have integrated with Notification Services.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 23, 2022

Red Ventures (RV) is home to a wide portfolio of growing businesses and trusted brands, including advertising agency Red Digital, that provide expert advice at scale. Monte Carlo helped Red Ventures reduce the amount of time its engineers spend on one-off data quality requests, which for some teams, were more than 50% of all requests.

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Media Entertainment Food Data 52

Monte Carlo

APRIL 28, 2022

Most data pros know Snowflake’s pricing model is consumption based–you pay for what you use. What many don’t know is Snowflake actually WANTS you to optimize your costs and has provided helpful features to rightsize your consumption. The key with Snowflake cost optimization initiatives is they too need to be right sized.

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 10, 2022

Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses sat down with Snowflake Director of Product Management Chris Child to talk about building data platforms at scale, how awesome data teams approach data quality, the role of data observability tools in the modern data stack, and more. Chris oversees the functionality and design of the Snowflake platform.

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Rockset

AUGUST 5, 2022

Whatnot is a venture-backed e-commerce startup built for the streaming age. We designed a data pipeline using Airflow to pull data from Snowflake and push it into one of our OLTP databases that serves the Elasticsearch-powered feed, optionally with a cache in front. Think eBay meets Twitch. Rockset is in our sweet spot now.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 24, 2022

billion on cloud databases such as Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery in 2021. Red Ventures improved data delivery by tracking performance via SLAs. Last year, BigQuery , Snowflake , and Databricks annual revenues each neared or exceeded $1b, and in 2021, they continue to grow at astounding rates.

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 17, 2021

I’m excited to share that Monte Carlo has raised $60 million in Series C funding from ICONIQ Growth with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Accel , GGV Capital , and Redpoint Ventures – bringing our total funding to $101M.

Insurance 40

Insurance Data Pipeline Kafka Data Engineering 40

Monte Carlo

AUGUST 17, 2021

It didn’t take much convincing to sell your CTO on Snowflake. When migrating to Snowflake, PagerDuty wanted to understand the health of their data pipelines through fully automated data observability. Your CEO can’t stop talking about her new Tableau dashboard, a report that tells which of your products are “stickiest” with customers.

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Insurance Retail Data Pipeline Portfolio 40

Towards Data Science

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ve been building modern data stacks, migrating to Snowflake like our lives depended on it, investing in headless BI, and growing our teams faster than you can say reverse ETL. Technologies like Snowflake, Databricks, and Fivetran showed up like magic to solve many of the problems associated with “becoming data-driven.”

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Data Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering 97

Monte Carlo

JULY 11, 2023

And so whether you’re using Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, data teams are on the hook now. So from the time that you have a particular question to actually being able to answer that, actually, red Ventures is one of our customers who’s done a lot of work on that. That is a stark difference. They’ve invested a lot.

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IT Data Data Programming Programming 52

Monte Carlo

JUNE 7, 2022

Snowflake has a helpful list of five common types of data applications (complete with reference architectures): Customer 360 : Marketing or sales automation that requires a complete view of the customer relationship. Account per tenant : Isolates tenants into separate Snowflake accounts. Nothing new there.

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Building Raw Data Architecture Machine Learning 52

FreshBI

JANUARY 31, 2022

The next time you embark on a new BI venture, ask yourself if your data is truly ready for that upcoming project. No excel worksheets are downloaded, no connections to SharePoint folders are made and no queries are written or updated. You’ll be glad you did!

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 9, 2023

At the same time, I noticed a forum missing that connects data practitioners, data founders, the decision makers of leading multinational companies, and venture capitalists. Now every team can build a customer360 in Snowflake with RudderStack Profiles. I even angel-invested in a couple of companies.

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Rockset

APRIL 5, 2021

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in a broad range of consumer and enterprise start-ups. Snowflake and Amazon Athena were other SQL options, and we do use Snowflake at Sequoia, but Rockset is way faster for powering apps. More recently, they transitioned their internal apps from Elasticsearch to Rockset.

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NoSQL SQL Data Science Building 40

Monte Carlo

APRIL 13, 2023

We’ve been building modern data stacks, migrating to Snowflake like our lives depended on it, investing in headless BI, and growing our teams faster than you can say reverse ETL. Technologies like Snowflake, Databricks, and Fivetran showed up like magic to solve many of the problems associated with “becoming data-driven.”

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