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Nick Halsey, CEOMar 25, 2025 9:00:00 AM3 min read

Why Snowflake is Doubling Down on DataOps.live

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Welcome to Frictionless Data Engineering at Scale

At DataOps.live, our mission has always been to empower data engineering teams with the best tools and processes to accelerate their work, reduce complexity, and unlock the full power of the Snowflake Data Cloud. Today, I’m proud to announce a significant milestone in that journey: Snowflake Ventures has made a second strategic investment in DataOps.live. This is an extraordinary endorsement from a company that rarely invests twice in the same partner.

This investment is more than funding. It’s a testament to the deep strategic alignment between Snowflake and DataOps.live, reinforcing our commitment to delivering cutting-edge data engineering solutions for Snowflake customers. To get Snowflake’s perspective on the investment, I encourage you to read the blog post from the Corporate Ventures team.

A Unique Partnership That Delivers Unmatched Value

DataOps.live was built from the ground up as a Snowflake-only platform. Every feature, every capability, and every enhancement we introduce is designed to maximize the unique strengths of Snowflake’s architecture.

This focus gives us an unparalleled ability to integrate seamlessly with Snowflake’s evolving ecosystem, ensuring that customers can easily incorporate DataOps.live into their data initiatives.

With this latest investment, we’re taking our partnership to new heights. Key components of this collaboration include:

A multi-year joint product roadmap
We’re aligning our development efforts even more closely with Snowflake’s innovation path, ensuring that DataOps.live remains the best-in-class data engineering platform for Snowflake.
Deep integration and joint programs
Our teams are working hand-in-hand to make it easier than ever for Snowflake customers to adopt and benefit from DataOps.live. Whether through enhanced capabilities delivered via the Snowflake Marketplace, streamlined onboarding, or new automation features, we’re committed to driving 10X productivity improvements for data teams.
New solutions that deliver high impact
This investment enables us to accelerate the delivery of innovative new solutions tailored specifically for Snowflake users; stay tuned for upcoming announcements!

Accelerating Innovation for Snowflake Users

This partnership is about more than just technology; it’s about business impact. We’ve already helped some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Roche Diagnostics, National Grid, and Eutelsat, streamline their data operations, reduce costs, and achieve faster time-to-value. Now, with this renewed backing from Snowflake Ventures, we’re poised to help even more organizations supercharge their data engineering efforts.

For Snowflake customers, this means:

Faster time-to-value for Critical Business Solutions: Quickly deliver data products that support high-impact initiatives like customer 360, compliance, and operational intelligence, with built-in automation and governance.

Greater agility to keep pace with the speed of business: Easily adapt data pipelines and designs as priorities shift, without breaking what’s already working. Business needs change quickly, and your data platform should move just as fast.

Comprehensive testing without delaying delivery: Accelerate business product innovation while reducing risk. Our native CI/CD and testing capabilities allow you to validate changes early and often, so you can move forward with confidence.

Stronger ROI for your Snowflake investment: By removing friction and complexity from the development lifecycle, we help drive wider usage across teams, deeper engagement with Snowflake, and faster ROI on your data cloud investment.

Looking Ahead

At DataOps.live, we believe that the future of data engineering is automated, scalable, and powered by sophisticated AI capabilities. This investment is a powerful validation of our vision, and we’re more excited than ever to continue building the most advanced DataOps platform for Snowflake customers.

We’re grateful for Snowflake’s continued trust in us, and we’re ready to double down on delivering transformative value to the entire Snowflake ecosystem. The best is yet to come!

For more information, read the press release announcing the investment and the Snowflake Ventures blog post.

Nick Halsey, CEO

As a Multiple-time CEO, COO, CMO, and VP of Sales, I have a passion for growing tech startups to reach their full potential. Either as a founder or early member of the exec team, I have provided leadership across all market-facing functions including Sales, Marketing, Business/Corporate Development, Product Management, and Customer Success. The positive environment I foster for every team I work with confirms my strong commitment to employee and organization development. My experience scaling out these functions within all organizations I have been a part of has resulted in proven success, including 2 IPO’s and 7 other successful exits. I believe in the importance of analytics as a key tool in steering organizational innovation and digital transformation. From AI to BI to ML to IoT, the capabilities found in the power of analytics drives changes in the way the world works, and most of the companies I work with are innovating in analytics as a key component of their product strategy. Besides raising money for the companies I work with, I am also a venture investor myself. I am an LP in several VC funds, and have a deep understanding of the way VCs and investors assess and manage their companies. I have served as a director on 8 boards, both as an investor and in an operating capacity, and I I bring these insights to work with my board and investors in an operating role. I have lived in the Bay Area since I moved here to attend Stanford. I’m an enthusiastic cyclist and have completed over 20 Century rides and 5 international cycling trips. I also enjoy giving back to the community, and love to get my kids involved in programs like Save the Bay Clean Up Days, sponsoring water wells in Africa, and painting the Gratitude wall in the photo above.