Salesforce

Public

Cloud-based CRM platform and enterprise software company. Pioneered the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and expanded through major acquisitions including Slack.

Company

Founded
1999
Headquarters
San Francisco, US
Employees
5000+

Financials

Total Funding
-
Revenue (ARR)
$1B+

Public Market

Exchange
NYSE
Ticker
CRM
IPO Date
Jun 23, 2004

Investment Portfolio

36 companies via Salesforce Ventures
Anthropic $48.4B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

AI safety company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Creator of the Claude family of large language models, Anthropic conducts frontier research on constitutional AI and alignment techniques to develop powerful AI that is safe and beneficial.

Databricks $20.0B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Data and AI company that provides a unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark, enabling data engineering, data science, and machine learning at scale.

Mistral AI $3.2B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

French artificial intelligence company that develops open-weight and proprietary large language models, offering frontier AI through its platform La Plateforme and chatbot Le Chat.

Crusoe $2.5B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates data centers powered by stranded and wasted energy sources, offering cloud computing services purpose-built for AI workloads.

Wiz $1.9B
Acquired via Salesforce Ventures

Cloud security company that provides a unified platform for cloud-native application protection, enabling organizations to rapidly identify and remediate critical risks across their cloud environments.

Snowflake $1.6B
Public via Salesforce Ventures

Cloud-based data warehousing company providing a platform for data storage, processing, and analytics that runs on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling organizations to consolidate data into a single source of truth.

Cohere $1.5B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Enterprise AI company building large language models and NLP tools for businesses, co-founded by a co-author of the seminal Attention Is All You Need transformer paper, with a focus on security-first generative AI for enterprise and government customers

Snyk $1.5B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Developer security platform that helps software teams find, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies, container images, infrastructure as code, and proprietary code

Airtable $1.4B
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Low-code platform combining the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a database, enabling teams to build collaborative apps and workflows without writing code, used by over 500,000 organizations.

Hopin $1.0B
Acquired via Salesforce Ventures

Hopin was a virtual events platform that enabled organizations to host interactive online and hybrid events for up to 100,000 attendees. The company experienced explosive pandemic-era growth, reaching a $7.75 billion valuation before selling its events business to RingCentral and remaining assets to Bending Spoons.

Chainguard $892M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Software supply chain security company that provides hardened container images with zero known vulnerabilities, offering a catalog of over 1,300 continuously updated, fully signed images with software bills of materials (SBOMs) for enterprises

Vercel $863M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js, the popular React framework. Provides developers with tools for building, deploying, and scaling web applications with instant global delivery, serverless functions, and edge computing infrastructure.

Runway $860M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

AI research company building generative AI tools for video, image, and multimedia content creation. Develops foundation models for video generation including its Gen series of models, and is expanding into world models that simulate physics-aware environments.

Legora $816M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

AI-powered legal workspace that helps lawyers review documents, draft contracts, conduct research, and collaborate, serving 800+ law firms and legal teams across 40+ markets. Formerly known as Leya, rebranded in February 2025.

ElevenLabs $781M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

AI voice technology company specializing in realistic speech synthesis, voice cloning, and multilingual text-to-speech.

Gusto $706M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small and medium businesses, serving over 400,000 companies. Originally launched as ZenPayroll in 2012 before rebranding to Gusto in 2015.

DocuSign $588M
Public via Salesforce Ventures

Pioneer in electronic signature technology and digital agreement management. Enables businesses and individuals to sign, send, and manage documents securely in the cloud, transforming how organizations prepare, act on, and manage agreements.

Gong $581M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Revenue intelligence platform that uses AI to analyze sales conversations and customer interactions, helping sales teams understand what drives successful outcomes and improve their performance

Box $552M
Public via Salesforce Ventures

Box is a cloud content management and file sharing platform for businesses. The company helps organizations securely manage, share, and collaborate on content across their enterprise, serving over 100,000 businesses worldwide.

Together AI $534M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

AI cloud infrastructure company that builds and operates a platform for running, training, and fine-tuning open-source AI models, enabling organizations to incorporate generative AI into production applications

Miro $475M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Online collaborative whiteboarding platform used by over 60 million users for brainstorming, planning, and design. One of the most widely adopted visual collaboration tools in the tech industry.

dbt Labs $416M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

dbt Labs is the company behind dbt (data build tool), an open-source analytics engineering framework that enables data teams to transform data in their warehouses using SQL. Originally founded as Fishtown Analytics, the company signed a definitive agreement to merge with Fivetran in October 2025 in an all-stock deal, creating a combined data infrastructure company approaching $600M in ARR.

Go1 $415M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

The world's largest curated corporate learning platform, aggregating content from over 250 training providers into a single subscription. Founded in Brisbane, Australia by a group of friends and Rhodes Scholars, Go1 serves millions of learners across thousands of enterprises globally.

Starburst $414M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Starburst is the commercial company behind Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), the open-source distributed SQL query engine. The platform provides a data lakehouse analytics layer that lets enterprises query data across any source without requiring data movement or migration.

Hugging Face $395M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Open-source platform and community for machine learning, providing tools, pre-trained models, and datasets that enable developers and researchers to build, train, and deploy AI models, often called the GitHub of machine learning

Fal $337M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Fal is a generative media infrastructure company providing serverless GPU compute and AI model deployment for developers. The platform offers API access to over 600 AI models for generating images, video, audio, and 3D content, serving over 2 million developers and enterprise customers including Adobe, Canva, and Shopify.

Algolia $334M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Search-as-a-service platform that provides hosted APIs enabling developers to build fast, relevant search and discovery experiences across websites and applications.

Black Forest Labs $331M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI lab building state-of-the-art generative AI models for images and video. Founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, the company develops the FLUX family of open-source text-to-image models, which have achieved over 400 million downloads and are used by Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft.

Writer $326M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Enterprise generative AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI agents and applications grounded in company data using its proprietary Palmyra family of large language models.

Alation $315M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Alation is the pioneer of the data catalog category, providing an agentic data intelligence platform that helps enterprises discover, govern, and trust their data assets. The platform uses AI-powered search, automated documentation, and lineage tracking. Over 40% of the Fortune 100 are customers, and the company surpassed $100M in annual recurring revenue in 2022.

MongoDB $311M
Public via Salesforce Ventures

Provides a developer data platform built around its flagship document-oriented NoSQL database, offering cloud database services (MongoDB Atlas), enterprise server, and related tools for building modern applications at scale.

BlocPower $248M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

BlocPower is a climate technology company that uses data analytics, proprietary software, and structured finance to make energy-efficient building upgrades accessible to underserved communities. The company manages end-to-end electrification retrofits, including heat pump installations, offering flexible financing so property owners can upgrade with little or no upfront cost.

Twilio $233M
Public via Salesforce Ventures

Cloud communications platform that provides programmable APIs for voice, SMS, video, and email, enabling developers to embed communication capabilities directly into their applications. Twilio powers customer engagement for hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide.

Code Metal $178M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

AI-powered platform for verifiable code translation and optimization across programming languages and hardware systems. Uses neuro-symbolic AI combining large language models with formal verification methods to ensure provably correct translations for mission-critical industries including defense, aerospace, semiconductors, and automotive.

HubSpot $101M
Public via Salesforce Ventures

HubSpot is a leading CRM platform that provides marketing, sales, customer service, and content management software for growing businesses. The company pioneered the concept of inbound marketing, helping companies attract customers through content, social media, and SEO.

Propel $67M
Private via Salesforce Ventures

Propel builds financial tools for low-income Americans. Its flagship app (formerly Fresh EBT, then Providers) lets EBT cardholders check SNAP benefits balances, manage money, save on essentials, and earn cash back. The app serves over 5 million households monthly and has facilitated over $500 million in financial benefits.

Notable Acquisitions

2 companies
Slack Jul 21, 2021
$27.7B

Workplace messaging and collaboration platform that transformed business communication. Originally built as an internal tool at Tiny Speck during development of the game Glitch, then pivoted to become the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history.

Heroku Dec 8, 2010
$212M

Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and manage applications entirely in the cloud. One of the first PaaS platforms, originally focused on Ruby on Rails applications. Pioneered the developer-first cloud deployment model.

Funding History

IPO Jun 23, 2004
NYSE: CRM

Funding data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.