Crunchy Data Acquired by AI Data Cloud Company Snowflake
2 minute read | June.11.2025
Crunchy Data, a leading provider of trusted open-source Postgres technology and products, has been acquired by AI Data Cloud company Snowflake.
Orrick represented Crunchy Data.
THE COMPANIES
Crunchy Data is renowned for its enterprise-ready PostgreSQL solutions, providing robust database technology to organizations worldwide.
Snowflake is a leading data cloud company that enables organizations to mobilize their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance.
THE IMPACT
The acquisition will bring Snowflake Postgres, the AI-ready, enterprise-grade and developer-friendly PostgreSQL database to the AI Data Cloud, enabling developers with the full power of Postgres while providing the uncompromising governance, security and operational standards essential for building and running mission-critical AI applications.
“We built Crunchy Data with the vision to become a Postgres solution of choice for leading enterprise organizations. Our deep-rooted commitment to stringent security and comprehensive compliance has made us the trusted Postgres partner for organizations across regulated industries, including federal agencies, Fortune 500 financial institutions and high-scale SaaS companies,” said Paul Laurence, Co-Founder at Crunchy Data. “We’re excited to join forces with Snowflake to provide their customers who already rely on Postgres the ability to run mission-critical regulated workloads with increased confidence and security on the Snowflake platform.”
THE TEAM
Mark Seneca and Kyle Zhu led the team that advised Crunchy Data, which also included Harris Quraishi, Amanda Morales, Michael Wiesner, Kimberly Loocke, Jennifer Criss, Lauren Guilford, Kristin Petersen, Ariel Simmonds Durandisse, Anna Aryankalayil, Matthew Coleman, and Carly Owens.
Orrick has advised on over 400 M&A or financing transactions for big data, SaaS and CloudTech & DevOps companies totaling more than $24.8 billion over the past 12 months.