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Salesforce
Marketing · San Francisco, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2004 Centicorn
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
Gopal PatelUnited States
Karan GoelUnited States
Ali MadaniUnited States
Rahul MadduluriUnited States
Max GasnerUnited States
Bryan MccannUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Salesforce has talent and traffic
(580 of 87,335 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1.5B patent portfolio · 3,593 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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