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Salesforce

Marketing · San Francisco, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2004

A leading provider of customer relationship management solutions

Valuation $181B
Revenue $42B
EBITDA $12B

Talent graph

Salesforce's talent

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Employees mapped 85,362 incl. 580 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 264 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

19 investors on Salesforce's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Marc Benioff
Dave Moellenhoff
Parker Harris
Series B+ 16 investors entered at this stage
Meritech Capital
John Friedenrich
MF Capital
Attractor Ventures
Stratton Sclavos
Igor Sill
Allen Miner
Ted Waitt
WR Hambrecht
Halsey Minor
Patrick McGovern
SunBridge Global Ventures
Magdalena Yesil
NEA
Credit Suisse First Boston
William Hambrecht

Global footprint

Where Salesforce has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
58 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States46.5%
🇮🇳 India20.1%
🇨🇦 Canada3.9%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.5%
Top 5 of 58 shown
Web traffic by country
110M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States38.2%
🇯🇵 Japan25.5%
🇮🇳 India7.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.9%
🇦🇺 Australia2.4%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$1.6B patent portfolio · 3,905 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$1.6B
0.91% of market cap · 626.6× larger than top peer Freshworks ($3M)
3,905 active patent families
Where Salesforce innovates Computer engineeringComputer programData bankData libraryData mining

Where Salesforce concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Salesforce and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Salesforce's 939 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Salesforce appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2008–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

939 deals across Salesforce's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Salesforce deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Salesforce's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        939 of 939 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Salesforce

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Salesforce on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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