St. Cloud, US · Angel
Denise Persson
CMO at Snowflake Ventures
Latest rounds
- ValidioSeries A · $30MMar 2026
BacksAIEnterprise SoftwareBig Data & Analytics
The firm
Snowflake VenturesCorporate VC · AU5cheques in 12 months7all time0ledRounds they were named in
- Rounds
- 1
- Led
- 0
- Disclosed
- $30M
- Active
- 2026
ValidioSeries A$30MSEJoined · +5 investors
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Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Company raisingNeo4j, Inc.Directoron 5 filings · since 2018
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Hear them before you pitch them
Leadership Lessons From Snowflake’s Sales & Marketing Duo | Chris Degnan and Denise Persson
WithDenise Persson
About this episode
Scaling a business globally comes down to leaders who align teams and drive them forward together. Snowflake serves over 12,000 customers, and early executives Chris Degnan and Denise Persson share how they scaled the company while keeping the unlikely pairing of sales and marketing perfectly… More on the show's page
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SaaStr 443: Snowflake CMO Denise Persson's Guide to Taking Your Marketing to $100M
WithDenise Persson
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Denise Persson, the CMO of Snowflake, shares the five secrets to a winning marketing strategy to grow your company's revenue and cement customer loyalty. Video + blog post: https://www.saastr.com/building-your-marketing-to-100m-with-snowflake-cmo-denise-persson/ More on the show's page
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Mentioned in
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SaaStr 862: The Dashboard Is Dead: What Snowflake's CMO Does Instead
MentionsDenise Persson
About this episode
The Dashboard Is Dead: What Snowflake's CMO Does Instead Denise Persson runs a 700-person marketing organization at one of the most data-rich companies on the planet, and she does not start her morning by logging into a dashboard. She interrogates her data directly, gets answers to questions she… More on the show's page
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Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
MentionsFrank SlootmanBob MugliaCarl EschenbachChristian KleinermanDenise Persson
About this episode
Chris Degnan was the first sales hire at Snowflake and spent 11 years scaling the company from zero to $3.5 billion in revenue as its CRO, working alongside four different CEOs and learning from each one. In this episode, Chris breaks down what it actually takes to scale an enterprise sales…
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Apple PodcastsSaaStr 825: How the AI Era Has Directly Impacted Marketing and Sales with Snowflake's CMO and Founding CRO
MentionsDenise Persson
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SaaStr 825: How the AI Era Has Directly Impacted Marketing and Sales with Snowflake's CMO and Founding CRO Join us for an insightful episode discussing the impact of AI on marketing and sales at Snowflake. Hosts Chris Degnan, founding CRO of Snowflake, and Denise Persson, CMO at Snowflake, delve… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageSaaStr 771: The Top Marketing Strategies for 2025 Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta
MentionsDenise Persson
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SaaStr 771: The Top Marketing Strategies for 2025 Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta Right now is one of the hardest times of the year for marketers. Most CMOs will be heads down wrapping up a year-end assessment and figuring out what to pitch for next year's budgetary spend… More on the show's page
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