Snowflake is all about managing data in the cloud, whether as part of a structured data warehouse, or less structured data lake. Neeva, a search startup from two former Google employees, has been all about search, working on both a consumer and enterprise offering. Earlier this week, it announced that it was walking away from consumer search to concentrate on the enterprise.
Today, Snowflake announced it was buying the startup. The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal.
Rumors had been swirling recently that Snowflake was interested in Neeva before the two companies made it official in a blog post on the Snowflake website this afternoon. Benoit Dageville, the company co-founder and VP of products, explained why he thinks that the companies fit together so well.
“The ability for teams to discover precisely the right data point, data asset or data insight is c …
