Natoma

Profile (continued)

On funding: Crunchbase records exactly one funding round for Natoma Labs — a Seed round with Index Ventures as lead investor and Greylock listed as another investor — but the amount and exact date are not publicly disclosed (obfuscated behind Crunchbase's paywall and not found in any accessible press coverage). Natoma's own 'Company' page displays four institutional backer logos: Greylock, Index Ventures, Definition (likely Definition Capital), and Latitude Capital — it is not confirmed from public sources whether all four participated in the same seed round or whether some joined a later, unannounced round; no Series A/B was found in any indexed news coverage. Greylock's own portfolio page for Natoma lists the company under the 'Cybersecurity' domain, shows 'First Partnered: Seed,' 'Current Status: Acquired,' and names Saam Motamedi as the Greylock investor connected to the deal — but does not state whether Greylock led or merely participated in that seed round, and gives no specific investment date.

On May 27, 2026, Snowflake Inc. announced (via Business Wire and Snowflake's own newsroom, timed to its Snowflake Summit and Q1 FY2027 earnings, which also featured a $6 billion AWS compute commitment) that it had 'signed a definitive agreement to acquire Natoma.' The deal was widely covered by outlets including Forbes ('Snowflake Buys Natoma To Govern The Agents Acting On Its Data'), The Register ('Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents'), CIO.com ('Snowflake to acquire MCP-focused Natoma to boost governance for AI agents'), BankInfoSecurity, No Jitter, HPCwire, Coverager, Pulse 2.0, Technology Magazine, Engineering.com, and Seeking Alpha, among others. Terms were not disclosed; SFist's roundup of Bay Area AI acquisitions that same week (which also covered Autodesk's $3.6B purchase of MaintainX and Asana's purchase of StackAI) described Natoma as a 'Los Altos AI agent service' bought for an undisclosed amount, consistent with Crunchbase's Los Altos, CA headquarters listing (note: Greylock's portfolio page instead lists Natoma's HQ as San Francisco, CA — a minor discrepancy between sources that could not be fully resolved; Los Altos has two independent corroborating sources). Natoma's own announcement blog post, co-signed by all four founders (Patnaik, Potter, Hart, Bhaya) and dated May 27, 2026, frames the deal as folding Natoma's 'secure connectivity, identity, and governance layer' into Snowflake's 'control plane for the agentic enterprise' built around Snowflake Intelligence and Snowflake Cortex Code, and states the Natoma platform 'some of the world's largest organizations rely on' will be integrated more deeply into the Snowflake platform going forward. As of the acquisition announcement, Natoma's website remained live at natoma.id with a banner reading 'Natoma is joining forces with Snowflake,' and the company was still marketing its Free/Pro/Enterprise self-serve pricing tiers.

Competitive context: Natoma competed in two overlapping, fast-moving categories — non-human/machine identity security (alongside companies such as Astrix Security, Oasis Security, Entro Security, Token Security, and Aembit) and the newer enterprise MCP-gateway / agentic-AI-governance space that emerged after Anthropic's Model Context Protocol launched in late 2024. No source directly names these companies as head-to-head Natoma competitors; they are listed here as commonly cited category peers based on general market/sector knowledge rather than a sourced competitive comparison, and should be treated as lower-confidence context rather than confirmed fact.

Go-to-market

Mid-market and large enterprises (including Fortune 500 companies) adopting agentic AI — primarily Security Operations, IT & Endpoint, Developer/Platform Engineering, and Business Operations teams, across industries including finance, manufacturing, retail & hospitality, and healthcare.

Ownership

subsidiary — parent: Snowflake Inc.