Salesforce Ventures

Corporate

Corporate venture arm of Salesforce

Profile

Founded
2009
Headquarters
San Francisco, US
Investments
32
Companies
20

Capital

Total Deployed
$11.6B
Lead Rounds
7

Portfolio

20 companies
Anthropic $48.4B
Private San Francisco, US

AI safety company and maker of Claude AI models

Databricks $20.0B
Private San Francisco, US

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 Paris, FR

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.

Wiz $1.9B
Acquired New York, US

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 Bozeman, US

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.

Airtable $1.4B
Private San Francisco, US

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.

Vercel $863M
Private San Francisco, US

Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js

Runway $860M
Private New York, US

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.

ElevenLabs $781M
Private New York, US

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

Gusto $706M
Private San Francisco, US

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.

Box $552M
Public Redwood City, United States

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.

dbt Labs $416M
Private Philadelphia, United States

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 Brisbane, AU

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 Boston, United States

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.

Algolia $334M
Private San Francisco, US

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 Freiburg, Germany

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.

Alation $315M
Private Redwood City, United States

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.

BlocPower $248M
Private Brooklyn, United States

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 San Francisco, United States

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

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.

Investment 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.