{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"47047","rtpr_id":"nBw5CbZx1a","ticker":"SNOW","exchange":"NYSE","all_tickers":["SNOW"],"title":"Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Natoma, Providing Secure Connectivity For The Agentic Enterprise","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-05-27T20:07:00.101Z","article_body":"Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Natoma, Providing Secure Connectivity\nFor The Agentic Enterprise\n\nBringing Natoma’s Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform to\nSnowflake will make it easier to securely connect AI to enterprise\napplications\n\n\n * Snowflake customers will be able to securely connect Snowflake Intelligence\nand Cortex Code to enterprise systems with a verified library of MCP servers,\nunlocking centralized governance through the MCP Gateway\n\n * Users will be able to enrich the Snowflake data they already trust with\ncontext from email, Slack and other connected tools, making Snowflake the\nsingle source for every data need\n\n * The acquisition extends Snowflake’s governance perimeter from data assets to\nAI actions and interactions across the enterprise\n\nSnowflake\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake&index=1&md5=def4dfd090eb6fa0ea0e59cc68255523)\n(NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced it has signed a\ndefinitive agreement to acquire Natoma, an enterprise Model Context Protocol\n(MCP) platform for AI agents. With the close of this acquisition, Snowflake\nwill establish a natively integrated governance and identity layer for AI\nagents and MCP tool access, making it easier to securely connect and manage\nhow AI systems interact with their enterprise applications, databases, APIs\nand tools. By extending governance to AI-driven workflows, Snowflake makes it\neasier for companies to safely manage not just their data, but also the\nactions AI agents take across business workflows.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/)\n\nSnowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Natoma, Providing Secure Connectivity\nFor The Agentic Enterprise\n\n“AI agents are quickly becoming part of how enterprises operate, but\nintelligence without governance creates risk,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, Chief\nExecutive Officer of Snowflake. “Agents don’t just need access to data.\nThey need the right context, permissions and policy guardrails to operate\nsafely inside the enterprise. Snowflake has long served as the governed data\nfoundation for enterprises, and with Natoma’s expertise in identity\ngovernance and privileged access management, we can extend that trust layer to\nAI-driven actions and workflows. With Natoma in Snowflake, coding agents can\nfinally come alive inside the enterprise - secure, auditable and ready to\noperate at scale.”\n\nSnowflake’s recent AI research\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fnews%2Fpress-releases%2Fsnowflake-research-reveals-ai-driven-job-creation-outpaces-job-loss-with-77-percent-reporting-workforce-gains%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=recent+AI+research&index=2&md5=94b79653711615f8c4fd569b0bd5bb4b)\nfound that 96% of organizations still face significant challenges scaling AI\nacross the enterprise. The rise of MCP has introduced new challenges\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fblog%2Fsnowflake-acquire-natoma-governed-agentic-access&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=new+challenges&index=3&md5=1a4737d5185a65f1bcc863471f54cefa)\naround fragmented governance, shadow AI and increased data exfiltration risk\nas agents connect across enterprise systems. As organizations move from\ncopilots to autonomous AI agents capable of taking actions across enterprise\nsystems, governance and operational control are becoming increasingly\ncritical.\n\nWith this acquisition, Snowflake customers will be able to securely connect\nCortex Agents\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fuser-guide%2Fsnowflake-cortex%2Fcortex-agents&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Cortex+Agents&index=4&md5=d7ef03522ae4c061114ff87c2af9b769)\n, Snowflake Intelligence\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fproduct%2Fsnowflake-intelligence%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake+Intelligence&index=5&md5=5d717fc644e1a1c405bb15884cd2e21a)\n, Cortex Code\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fproduct%2Ffeatures%2Fcortex-code%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Cortex+Code&index=6&md5=0e6b80082099a7a33422151d2908e95f)\nand other AI platforms to enterprise systems across SaaS applications, cloud\nenvironments, VPCs and on-prem infrastructure through a verified library of\nMCP servers. Natoma provides the control and governance fabric for these\nconnections, helping enterprises manage how AI agents discover, access and act\nacross systems - with trust, visibility, identity-aware authorization,\npolicies and complete auditability built in.\n\nUsers will be able to correlate and enrich trusted business data in Snowflake\nwith context from Slack, email, CRM, Jira, internal APIs, databases and\napplications, enabling Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code to deliver more\nrelevant, actionable outcomes, with enterprise-grade security, governance and\ncontrol.\n\nNatoma’s platform is already deployed at some of the world’s largest\nenterprises and delivers the scale, visibility and policy enforcement required\nto securely operate enterprise agentic systems in production. Its team brings\ndeep expertise in MCPs, gateway infrastructure, identity governance and\nprivileged access management, with experience building enterprise security\nproducts at a global scale.\n\n“AI agents will only become enterprise-ready if organizations can govern how\nthey operate across systems, applications and tools,” said Pratyus Patnaik,\nCo-Founder and CEO of Natoma. “Together with Snowflake, we’re building the\ngovernance and connectivity layer that enables enterprises to securely\noperationalize AI at scale.”\n\nNatoma’s capabilities will be integrated into Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud\nand available to customers soon. By extending governance from data access to\nAI-driven actions and workflows, Snowflake is advancing its position as the\ntrusted control plane for the agentic enterprise.\n\nClosing of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.\n\nLearn More:\n\n\n * Read this \nblog post\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fblog%2Fsnowflake-acquire-natoma-governed-agentic-access&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=blog+post&index=7&md5=4fe67e1f5dbc929476aaf69341c4f699)\n\nto learn more about what the Natoma acquisition will mean for customers.\n\n * Check out all the innovations and announcements coming out of Snowflake Summit\n26 on \nSnowflake’s Newsroom\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fnews%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake%26%238217%3Bs+Newsroom&index=8&md5=7df4a7637fab6a79243a602b3bbe8613)\n\n.\n\n * Stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on \nLinkedIn\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fsnowflake-computing%2Fposts&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=9&md5=17e84bb04c42bdafa896b1e3f0b1f927)\n\nand \nX\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FSnowflake%3F_fsi%3DGoSftacn&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=X&index=10&md5=befd130f6c3fa09ae2495ed88ae6be9a)\n\n, and follow along at #SnowflakeSummit.\n\nForward-Looking Statements\n\nThis release relates to a pending acquisition of Natoma by Snowflake. This\nrelease contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A\nof the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities\nExchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding the anticipated benefits of the\nacquisition, and the anticipated impacts of the acquisition on our business,\nproducts, financial results, and other aspects of our and Natoma’s\noperations. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown\nrisks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause actual\nresults or outcomes to be materially different from any future results or\noutcomes expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks,\nuncertainties, assumptions, and other factors include, but are not limited to:\nthe effect of the announcement of the acquisition on the ability of Snowflake\nor Natoma to retain key personnel or maintain relationships with customers,\nvendors, developers, community members, and other business partners; risks\nthat the acquisition disrupts current plans and operations; the ability of the\nparties to consummate the acquisition on a timely basis or at all; the\nsatisfaction of the conditions precedent to consummation of the acquisition;\nour ability to successfully integrate Natoma’s operations; our and\nNatoma’s ability to execute on our business strategies relating to the\nacquisition and realize expected benefits and synergies; and our ability to\ncompete effectively, including in response to actions our competitors may take\nfollowing announcement of the acquisition. Further information on these and\nadditional risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual\noutcomes and results to differ materially from those included in or\ncontemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this release are\nincluded under the caption “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our Quarterly\nReports on Form 10-Q, Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and subsequent filings and\nreports we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.\nMoreover, both we and Natoma operate in a very competitive and rapidly\nchanging environment, and new risks may emerge from time to time. It is not\npossible for us to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all\nfactors on our business or the acquisition, or the extent to which any factor,\nor combination of factors, may cause actual results or outcomes to differ\nmaterially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make.\nForward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements are made\nand are based on information available to us at the time those statements are\nmade and/or our management's good faith belief as of that time with respect to\nfuture events. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation, and do\nnot intend, to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events that\noccur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.\n\nAbout Snowflake\n\nSnowflake is the platform for the AI era, making it easy for enterprises to\ninnovate faster and get more value from data. More than 13,900 customers\naround the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest companies, use\nSnowflake’s AI Data Cloud to build, use and share data, applications and AI.\nWith Snowflake, data and AI are transformative for everyone. Learn more at\nsnowflake.com (NYSE: SNOW).\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/)\n\nPress Contact \n\nDanica Stanczak\n\nGlobal Corporate Communications, Snowflake\n\npress@snowflake.com (mailto:press@snowflake.com)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nBw5CbZx1a","title":"Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Natoma, Providing Secure Connectivity For The Agentic Enterprise","author":"Business Wire","ticker":"SNOW","created":"2026-05-27T20:07:00.101Z","tickers":["SNOW"],"exchange":"NYSE","article_body":"Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Natoma, Providing Secure Connectivity\nFor The Agentic Enterprise\n\nBringing Natoma’s Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform to\nSnowflake will make it easier to securely connect AI to enterprise\napplications\n\n\n * Snowflake customers will be able to securely connect Snowflake Intelligence\nand Cortex Code to enterprise systems with a verified library of MCP servers,\nunlocking centralized governance through the MCP Gateway\n\n * Users will be able to enrich the Snowflake data they already trust with\ncontext from email, Slack and other connected tools, making Snowflake the\nsingle source for every data need\n\n * The acquisition extends Snowflake’s governance perimeter from data assets to\nAI actions and interactions across the enterprise\n\nSnowflake\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake&index=1&md5=def4dfd090eb6fa0ea0e59cc68255523)\n(NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced it has signed a\ndefinitive agreement to acquire Natoma, an enterprise Model Context Protocol\n(MCP) platform for AI agents. With the close of this acquisition, Snowflake\nwill establish a natively integrated governance and identity layer for AI\nagents and MCP tool access, making it easier to securely connect and manage\nhow AI systems interact with their enterprise applications, databases, APIs\nand tools. By extending governance to AI-driven workflows, Snowflake makes it\neasier for companies to safely manage not just their data, but also the\nactions AI agents take across business workflows.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/)\n\nSnowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Natoma, Providing Secure Connectivity\nFor The Agentic Enterprise\n\n“AI agents are quickly becoming part of how enterprises operate, but\nintelligence without governance creates risk,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, Chief\nExecutive Officer of Snowflake. “Agents don’t just need access to data.\nThey need the right context, permissions and policy guardrails to operate\nsafely inside the enterprise. Snowflake has long served as the governed data\nfoundation for enterprises, and with Natoma’s expertise in identity\ngovernance and privileged access management, we can extend that trust layer to\nAI-driven actions and workflows. With Natoma in Snowflake, coding agents can\nfinally come alive inside the enterprise - secure, auditable and ready to\noperate at scale.”\n\nSnowflake’s recent AI research\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fnews%2Fpress-releases%2Fsnowflake-research-reveals-ai-driven-job-creation-outpaces-job-loss-with-77-percent-reporting-workforce-gains%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=recent+AI+research&index=2&md5=94b79653711615f8c4fd569b0bd5bb4b)\nfound that 96% of organizations still face significant challenges scaling AI\nacross the enterprise. The rise of MCP has introduced new challenges\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fblog%2Fsnowflake-acquire-natoma-governed-agentic-access&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=new+challenges&index=3&md5=1a4737d5185a65f1bcc863471f54cefa)\naround fragmented governance, shadow AI and increased data exfiltration risk\nas agents connect across enterprise systems. As organizations move from\ncopilots to autonomous AI agents capable of taking actions across enterprise\nsystems, governance and operational control are becoming increasingly\ncritical.\n\nWith this acquisition, Snowflake customers will be able to securely connect\nCortex Agents\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fuser-guide%2Fsnowflake-cortex%2Fcortex-agents&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Cortex+Agents&index=4&md5=d7ef03522ae4c061114ff87c2af9b769)\n, Snowflake Intelligence\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fproduct%2Fsnowflake-intelligence%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake+Intelligence&index=5&md5=5d717fc644e1a1c405bb15884cd2e21a)\n, Cortex Code\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fproduct%2Ffeatures%2Fcortex-code%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Cortex+Code&index=6&md5=0e6b80082099a7a33422151d2908e95f)\nand other AI platforms to enterprise systems across SaaS applications, cloud\nenvironments, VPCs and on-prem infrastructure through a verified library of\nMCP servers. Natoma provides the control and governance fabric for these\nconnections, helping enterprises manage how AI agents discover, access and act\nacross systems - with trust, visibility, identity-aware authorization,\npolicies and complete auditability built in.\n\nUsers will be able to correlate and enrich trusted business data in Snowflake\nwith context from Slack, email, CRM, Jira, internal APIs, databases and\napplications, enabling Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code to deliver more\nrelevant, actionable outcomes, with enterprise-grade security, governance and\ncontrol.\n\nNatoma’s platform is already deployed at some of the world’s largest\nenterprises and delivers the scale, visibility and policy enforcement required\nto securely operate enterprise agentic systems in production. Its team brings\ndeep expertise in MCPs, gateway infrastructure, identity governance and\nprivileged access management, with experience building enterprise security\nproducts at a global scale.\n\n“AI agents will only become enterprise-ready if organizations can govern how\nthey operate across systems, applications and tools,” said Pratyus Patnaik,\nCo-Founder and CEO of Natoma. “Together with Snowflake, we’re building the\ngovernance and connectivity layer that enables enterprises to securely\noperationalize AI at scale.”\n\nNatoma’s capabilities will be integrated into Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud\nand available to customers soon. By extending governance from data access to\nAI-driven actions and workflows, Snowflake is advancing its position as the\ntrusted control plane for the agentic enterprise.\n\nClosing of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.\n\nLearn More:\n\n\n * Read this \nblog post\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fblog%2Fsnowflake-acquire-natoma-governed-agentic-access&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=blog+post&index=7&md5=4fe67e1f5dbc929476aaf69341c4f699)\n\nto learn more about what the Natoma acquisition will mean for customers.\n\n * Check out all the innovations and announcements coming out of Snowflake Summit\n26 on \nSnowflake’s Newsroom\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fnews%2F&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake%26%238217%3Bs+Newsroom&index=8&md5=7df4a7637fab6a79243a602b3bbe8613)\n\n.\n\n * Stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on \nLinkedIn\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fsnowflake-computing%2Fposts&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=9&md5=17e84bb04c42bdafa896b1e3f0b1f927)\n\nand \nX\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FSnowflake%3F_fsi%3DGoSftacn&esheet=54542505&newsitemid=20260527677399&lan=en-US&anchor=X&index=10&md5=befd130f6c3fa09ae2495ed88ae6be9a)\n\n, and follow along at #SnowflakeSummit.\n\nForward-Looking Statements\n\nThis release relates to a pending acquisition of Natoma by Snowflake. This\nrelease contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A\nof the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities\nExchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding the anticipated benefits of the\nacquisition, and the anticipated impacts of the acquisition on our business,\nproducts, financial results, and other aspects of our and Natoma’s\noperations. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown\nrisks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause actual\nresults or outcomes to be materially different from any future results or\noutcomes expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks,\nuncertainties, assumptions, and other factors include, but are not limited to:\nthe effect of the announcement of the acquisition on the ability of Snowflake\nor Natoma to retain key personnel or maintain relationships with customers,\nvendors, developers, community members, and other business partners; risks\nthat the acquisition disrupts current plans and operations; the ability of the\nparties to consummate the acquisition on a timely basis or at all; the\nsatisfaction of the conditions precedent to consummation of the acquisition;\nour ability to successfully integrate Natoma’s operations; our and\nNatoma’s ability to execute on our business strategies relating to the\nacquisition and realize expected benefits and synergies; and our ability to\ncompete effectively, including in response to actions our competitors may take\nfollowing announcement of the acquisition. Further information on these and\nadditional risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual\noutcomes and results to differ materially from those included in or\ncontemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this release are\nincluded under the caption “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our Quarterly\nReports on Form 10-Q, Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and subsequent filings and\nreports we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.\nMoreover, both we and Natoma operate in a very competitive and rapidly\nchanging environment, and new risks may emerge from time to time. It is not\npossible for us to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all\nfactors on our business or the acquisition, or the extent to which any factor,\nor combination of factors, may cause actual results or outcomes to differ\nmaterially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make.\nForward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements are made\nand are based on information available to us at the time those statements are\nmade and/or our management's good faith belief as of that time with respect to\nfuture events. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation, and do\nnot intend, to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events that\noccur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.\n\nAbout Snowflake\n\nSnowflake is the platform for the AI era, making it easy for enterprises to\ninnovate faster and get more value from data. More than 13,900 customers\naround the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest companies, use\nSnowflake’s AI Data Cloud to build, use and share data, applications and AI.\nWith Snowflake, data and AI are transformative for everyone. Learn more at\nsnowflake.com (NYSE: SNOW).\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/)\n\nPress Contact \n\nDanica Stanczak\n\nGlobal Corporate Communications, Snowflake\n\npress@snowflake.com (mailto:press@snowflake.com)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-05-27T20:07:00.138392536Z","server_sent_at_ms":1779912420138},"received_at":"2026-05-27T20:07:00.191Z","source_url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527677399/en/"},"analysis":{"id":"36479","press_release_id":"47047","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Software","sector":"Information Technology"},"redFlags":["No deal value disclosed","Acquisition subject to customary closing conditions"],"eventType":"m_and_a","narrative":"Snowflake has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Natoma, an enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform for AI agents.\n\nThe acquisition allows Snowflake to extend its governance perimeter from data assets to AI actions and interactions, providing a natively integrated identity layer for AI agents.\n\nCustomers will be able to securely connect Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code to enterprise systems via a verified library of MCP servers, enabling centralized governance through the MCP Gateway.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":true,"suggestedAngle":"Snowflake buys Natoma to govern AI agents -- extending its moat into the agentic enterprise."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"customer_count":13900}},"quotedText":"Agents don’t just need access to data. 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