"Snowflake has signed an agreement to acquire Select Star. This company's technology will expand Snowflake Horizon Catalog by integrating with databases, BI tools, and data pipelines. This will increase the context for AI agents such as Snowflake Intelligence. The full context of data assets is often scattered across upstream and downstream systems. This fragmentation makes it difficult to find the right data and understand the full context. In the AI era, this limited context poses a problem for both humans and agents."
"Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides uniform context and governance for AI across all data. At Snowflake Summit 2025, the company announced that capabilities such as search and lineage will be extended to data and AI assets outside of Snowflake. The acquisition of Select Star further capitalizes on this. Select Star has connections to database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, business intelligence tools such as Tableau and Power BI, and data pipeline tools such as dbt and Airflow. These integrations help Horizon Catalog gain a broader view of an organization's entire data estate."
Snowflake will acquire Select Star to integrate the company's metadata platform into Horizon Catalog, extending context and governance across an organization's data estate. Select Star connects to databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, BI tools such as Tableau and Power BI, and pipeline tools such as dbt and Airflow, enabling unified metadata, lineage, impact analysis, and discovery. Expanded integrations will surface search and lineage for data and AI assets beyond Snowflake, improving agentic AI solutions' ability to locate and interpret data. The entire Select Star team, including CEO Shinji Kim, will join Snowflake to advance Horizon Catalog innovation; financial terms are undisclosed.
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