Cloud giant Snowflake has agreed to acquire data pipeline management company Datavolo for an undisclosed sum.
Snowflake disclosed the deal at market close on Wednesday, while also reporting third-quarter 2025 results. The purchase has not yet closed and is subject to customary closing conditions, Snowflake noted in the release.
Joseph Witt and Luke Roquet, who met while working together at Hortonworks, founded Datavolo in 2023. Witt was previously CVP at Cloudera, and Roquet was CMO at Cloudera and before that a business development executive at AWS.
Datavolo uses Apache NiFi, an open source project for data processing developed by the National Security Agency, to power its platform that automates the flow of data between diverse enterprise data sources. Data “processors” extract, clean, transform, and enrich data, including for generative AI use cases.
With Datavolo, which raised $21 million in venture capital from investors including Citi Ventures and General Catalyst before the acquisition, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy plans to build a more diverse data processing pipeline for Snowflake customers. For example, Datavolo allows users to replace single-use data connectors with flexible pipelines that can move data from cloud and on-premises sources to Snowflake’s data cloud.
“By bringing Datavolo into the Snowflake folder, we can expand the scope of the data lifecycle that Snowflake captures, delivering both simplicity and cost savings for our customers without sacrificing data scalability,” Ramaswamy said in a statement. “We are excited to welcome the Datavolo team to Snowflake, a team committed to accelerating what is the best platform for enterprise data – unstructured and structured, batch and streaming – and the success of the open source community.”
Witt said Snowflake will help support and manage the Apache NiFi project after the acquisition is complete. “Large-scale data engineering can be prohibitively expensive and complex. Our goal has always been to simplify our customers’ experience so they can achieve value faster,” he added in a press release. “By working with Snowflake, we can bring the incredible scale and groundbreaking simplicity of the Snowflake platform to our customers, ultimately making data engineering for more users.”
Demand for data management skills has skyrocketed, thanks in part to AI. Fortune Business Insights estimates that the global enterprise data management market will reach $224.87 billion by 2032.
But data management was a challenge for businesses long before the AI boom. A 2022 survey from data quality platform Great Expectations found that 91% of organizations say data quality issues impact their performance.
Against this background, it is no surprise that companies like Datavolo stand out.
Today was a news day for Snowflake, with shares up 19% on better-than-expected earnings. In addition to acquiring Snowflake, the company announced a multi-year partnership with Anthropic to integrate the AI startup’s models into its Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake Intelligence, and Cortex Analyst products.
