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Salesforce
A leading provider of customer relationship management solutions
At a glance
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2004
- Sector
- Marketing
- Power Law
- Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
Salesforce posts $11.13B in quarterly revenue as new investors buy in
Aug 18, 2026
News
Salesforce pledges $2B for France, $1B for Italy in European AI push
Jul 8, 2026
Analysis
Salesforce buys Contentful for $1.25B
Jun 16, 2026
Analysis
Salesforce buys Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6B
Jun 16, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Salesforce.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Marc Benioff- DMDave Moellenhoff
- PHParker Harris
Series B and later16 investors entered at this stage
Meritech Capital- JFJohn Friedenrich
- MCMF Capital
- AVAttractor Ventures
- SSStratton Sclavos
- ISIgor Sill
- AMAllen Miner
- TWTed Waitt
- WHWR Hambrecht
- HMHalsey Minor
- PMPatrick McGovern
- SVSunBridge Global Ventures
- MYMagdalena Yesil
NEA- CBCredit Suisse First Boston
- WHWilliam Hambrecht
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Salesforce employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SISierraEst. 2023
Bret TaylorUnited States
CLClickHouseEst. 2021
Aaron KatzUnited States
RERecurlyEst. 2009
Tim Van LoanUnited States
SBStandard BotsEst. 2015
Evan BeardUnited States
PRProfluentEst. 2022
Ali MadaniUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
3,905 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Salesforce was the 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.
939 deals across Salesforce's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Salesforce on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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