Snowflake acquires Natoma to manage AI agent permissions across enterprise systems
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O'Ryan Johnson
20h ago· 4 min readenNews
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Summary
Snowflake has announced its acquisition of Natoma, a startup that provides a gateway for managing AI agent permissions across enterprise applications. During Snowflake's Q1 FY2027 earnings call, CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy described Natoma as a key component of Snowflake's "agentic control plane" strategy, which aims to allow AI agents to take actions across business systems while remaining within organizational security policies. This marks Snowflake's sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025.
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CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said Natoma is a critical piece of the company's broader strategy around what he called the 'agentic control plane'
AI agents can take actions across business systems while still operating within the organization
It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025
