Snow Angels Research
Overview
Snow Angels is an investment community of Snowflake alumni, launched publicly in early 2025 and listed on LinkedIn as a partnership founded in 2024 with a handful of employees. Its own site is snowangels.io. The stored website for this firm, snowangels.vc, does not resolve in DNS, so all first-party facts below come from snowangels.io, its FAQ page, and the firm's LinkedIn page. The pitch on the homepage is that it brings together the people who grew Snowflake to record-breaking heights, and that it provides capital, expertise, and access to a professional network to the next generation of startups.
Investment Thesis
The firm backs Data and AI companies raising early-stage or growth rounds, with extra emphasis on founders building in the Snowflake ecosystem or founded by Snowflake alumni. The FAQ lists the focus as data infrastructure, AI platforms, and intelligent systems. It says the group is not limited to Snowflake-alumni founders ("We invest in builders, not just backgrounds") but that being close to the ecosystem helps, and that it wants founders whose ambition goes beyond local markets. The differentiator it claims is operator-led support: product, go-to-market, international expansion, and scaling expertise from people who were in the trenches at Snowflake, rather than capital alone.
Structure and Decision Process
Snow Angels is an alumni angel syndicate rather than a traditional fund. The two founders source and curate deals, bring the most promising start-ups to the group, and members then choose which ones to back, according to a testimonial from a member (Steve Herskovitz). Former Snowflake employees, including a founding engineer who worked on data sharing, are invited to join through a form on the site. Individual member check sizes and the pooled amount per deal are not published. No fund size, AUM, or typical check range is disclosed anywhere I could reach, so those fields are left empty.
Stage Focus and Check Size
The site and FAQ say only "early to growth-stage" and "from early bets to growth rounds." The known deals are seed rounds where Snow Angels participated alongside lead investors. The stage preference is therefore recorded at low confidence. Check size is unknown.
Lead Tendency
The one documented deal, the $5M Genesis Computing seed, was led by Kearny Jackson with Snow Angels participating alongside Snowflake Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, and others. That is one data point, so lead tendency is recorded as unknown.
Portfolio
The homepage lists seven companies, all in data, AI, and infrastructure:
- Genesis Computing: an agentic system that powers AI data workers to run complete data workflows. Founded in 2024 by Matt Glickman and Justin Langseth; $5M seed in February 2025 led by Kearny Jackson with Snow Angels participating.
- Hey Ruby (heyruby.ai): an AI deal coach across the sales cycle. Co-founded in 2025 by Kris Lawson.
- Five One Four (fiveonefour.com): an agent harness for building with ClickHouse and realtime analytical infrastructure.
- Makora: AI infrastructure that helps developers unlock GPU performance without rewrites; $8.5M seed in August 2025 led by M13. Snow Angels' role in that round is not confirmed in the sources I found.
- Whirl AI: AI agents that understand enterprise systems and speed IT changes from weeks to hours. Its CEO, Sunny Bedi, gives a testimonial crediting the group for go-to-market guidance.
- CentML: an AI infrastructure platform for deploying and running models; marked "Acquired by Nvidia" on the site. Nvidia's acquisition was reported in June 2025, with a value reported as possibly above $400M.
- YScope: an open-source platform for log archive storage, search, and analytics.
The pattern is early investments in data and AI infrastructure companies, several with ties to Snowflake alumni or the Toronto and New York startup scenes. One portfolio exit is on record, CentML.
Team
- Kris Lawson: launched Snowflake Canada in 2018; early-stage go-to-market executive with prior roles at Salesforce (2004) and Gong (2016); advises founders on GTM and co-founded the AI start-ups heyruby.ai and aedi.ca in 2025.
- Hassan Bhatti: twice-exited founder who sold companies to Snowflake and to private equity; founder and board chair of several AI-native companies, notably Superhuman (a large AI newsletter) and heylemon.ai.
LinkedIn shows about six people associated with the page. The homepage also shows rotating role labels (VP of Sales, Head of Product, EVP Engineering, and similar) that describe the kinds of Snowflake alumni in the community, not named partners.
Founder Preferences
Founders solving real problems in data and AI, ideally in or near the Snowflake ecosystem, with global ambition. The firm positions itself to founders as a source of go-to-market and product help from people who scaled a category leader.
Geographic Focus
Not stated. The community is described as global. Both founders have Canadian ties (Kris launched Snowflake Canada) and two portfolio companies are Toronto-linked, but no headquarters is published, so location is left empty.
Gaps
No fund size, check size, headquarters, or dated deal list is published. snowangels.vc should likely be replaced with snowangels.io in the record.