Overview
- Snowflake has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Natoma, a company that builds Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateways for AI agents, and the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions.
- Natoma’s platform gives each AI agent an identity and enforces identity-aware authorization, policy rules and full audit logs so agents can discover, access and act on systems with traceable permissions.
- Snowflake says it will integrate Natoma into the AI Data Cloud so Cortex Agents, Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex Code and other agent platforms can connect to SaaS apps, APIs, on-prem systems and VPCs under unified governance.
- The companies say the integrated features will be available to customers soon, but Snowflake cautioned that closing, integration, personnel retention and execution risks could affect timing and benefits.
- Snowflake frames the buy as a way to help enterprises scale autonomous agents safely by reducing fragmented governance and data-exfiltration risk while extending Snowflake’s role from a governed data foundation to a broader control plane for agent-driven workflows.