Salesforce Ventures
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Salesforce Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Salesforce, focused on enterprise technology. It provides patient capital and access to Salesforce's ecosystem to support startups from seed through growth stages.
Salesforce Ventures is a corporate venture arm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2009. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in enterprise Software, generative AI, data & Infrastructure and security. Its stated cheque size is $5M for seed rounds to $50M+ for growth-stage rounds. $7B+ under management and 700 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest globally in enterprise software companies that we believe will be the next generation of industry leaders.”
— Salesforce Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Invests in
- US, Europe, Israel, Japan, Korea, India, Australia
- Sectors
- Enterprise Software, Generative AI, Data & Infrastructure, Security, Vertical & Horizontal Apps, New Frontiers (Energy, Space)
- Cheque size
- $5M for seed rounds to $50M+ for growth-stage rounds
- Founded
- 2009
- Assets under management
- $7B+
- Portfolio
- 700 companies
Team, as Salesforce Ventures publishes it
- Paul Drews Managing Partner
- John Somorjai President
- Ken Asada Partner & Head of Japan
- Claudine Emeott Partner
- Nowi Kallen Partner
- Rob Keith Partner
- Katie Schwartz Thiry Managing Director
- Emily Zhao Managing Director
- Sam Ackah-Yensu Investor
- Adrianna Alterman Principal
- Derek Asbun Head of Portfolio Development
- Sarah Browne Head of Finance
Names and roles exactly as listed on salesforceventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 329 co-investors found.
- Iconiq Capital 12 shared companies: anthropic.com, airtable.com, highspot.com, 1password.com…
- SV Angel 12 shared companies: anthropic.com, bfl.ai, stripe.com, basepowercompany.com…
- Axevil Capital, LLC 10 shared companies: anthropic.com, airwallex.com, stripe.com, lovable.dev…
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 9 shared companies: anthropic.com, stripe.com, wiz.io, 1password.com…
- Founders Circle Capital, LLC 9 shared companies: airtable.com, algolia.com, starburst.io, databricks.com…
- Sapphire Ventures 8 shared companies: onebrief.com, highspot.com, ownbackup.com, betterup.com…
- Alkeon Capital Management, LLC 7 shared companies: anthropic.com, snyk.io, stripe.com, starburst.io…
- Depo Ventures 6 shared companies: stripe.com, nvidia.com, salesforce.com, miro.com…
- EQUIAM 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, stripe.com, databricks.com, snowflake.com…
- G Squared Equity Management LP 5 shared companies: anthropic.com, airwallex.com, snyk.io, stripe.com…
and 319 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Salesforce Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://salesforceventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://salesforceventures.com/about/hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, aum, portfolio_count
- https://salesforceventures.com/people/people
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