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Salesforce
Marketing · San Francisco, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2004
News
Salesforce pledges $2B for France, $1B for Italy in European AI push
Jul 8, 2026
Analysis
Salesforce agrees to buy Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B — the deal in six charts
Jun 16, 2026
Analysis
Contentful's Salesforce exit: a long-haul win for early backers
Jun 16, 2026
News
Salesforce's Anthropic stake now worth about $5B after repeated bets on the AI startup
Jun 1, 2026
Salesforce mafia
Startups founded by Salesforce alumni
Former Salesforce employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Bret TaylorUnited States
Aaron KatzUnited States
Tim Van LoanUnited States
Evan BeardUnited States
Ali MadaniUnited States
Karan GoelUnited States
Felix MengUnited States
Rahul MadduluriUnited States
Bryan MccannUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Salesforce has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Salesforce's talent
Dealroom maps Salesforce's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$1.6B patent portfolio · 3,905 active families
Where Salesforce concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Salesforce and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
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.
939 deals across Salesforce's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.