Snowflake, now a unicorn, eyes global growth for cloud data warehouse

Fueled by a capital injection of $263 million making it the first cloud-native data warehouse startup to achieve "unicorn" status, Snowflake is set this year to expand its global footprint, offer cross-regional, data-sharing capabilities, and develop interoperability with a growing set of related tools.With the new round of funding, announced Thursday, Snowflake has raised a total of $473 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Founded in 2012, the company has become a startup to watch because