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Salesforce Ventures

Corporate venture · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026

Salesforce Ventures is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 2009. The page below shows 141 Power Law outcomes from Salesforce Ventures's portfolio — 125 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Australia. Salesforce ranks #37 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

141 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #37 · Global · 141 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 58% 5y
125
Decacorns ↑ 45% 5y
16
Thoroughbreds ↑ 96% 5y
106
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 141 Salesforce Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA113
  2. UK3
  3. Australia3
  4. Japan3
  5. Germany3
  6. Switzerland2
  7. Singapore2
  8. India2
  9. France2
  10. Sweden2
  11. South Korea1
  12. Finland1
By sectorCount
  1. AI32
  2. Other B2B Software29
  3. Marketing27
  4. Fintech22
  5. Cybersecurity16
  6. Edtech5
  7. Health Tech & Medtech3
  8. Transportation3
  9. Energy2
  10. Other1
  11. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+113
  2. Series A18
  3. Seed3
Estimated holdings

Salesforce’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Salesforce’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 39 companies where Salesforce is a named shareholder, worth about $41.2B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 AnthropicEnterprise Software · Centicorn 4% $900B $36.0B
  2. 2 AutomatticTelecom · Unicorn 9.6% $7.5B $720M
  3. 3 CohereEnterprise Software · Decacorn 3% $20.0B $600M
  4. 4 AirwallexFintech · Unicorn 4% $8.0B $320M
  5. 5 GongMarketing · Unicorn 4% $7.2B $290M
  6. 6 Mistral AIEnterprise Software · Decacorn 1.8% $13.8B $248M
  7. 7 3.2% $7.4B $237M
  8. 8 2.5% $9.3B $233M
  9. 9 3.2% $6.8B $218M
  10. 10 5.5% $3.3B $182M
  11. 11 3.5% $4.7B $164M
  12. 12 3% $5.3B $159M

Showing the 12 largest of 39 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Salesforce’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Salesforce also appears inside investor groups in Airtable, Altruist, Arcadia, BigID, Chainguard, Culture Amp, DataRobot, Docker and 13 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Salesforce’s biggest exits.

Salesforce portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.0B IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $27.2B
$1.6B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $23.9B
$9.2B IPO · 2019
Now $23.5B
$1.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $10.7B
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $9.1B
$4.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
buyout · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $8.0B
$6.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.5B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $6.5B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $4.1B
$4.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $298M
$3.5B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
$2.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.9B
$2.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.9B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series A
$1.8B buyout · 2018
Entered Series A
$1.6B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.6B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
$1.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
$1.3B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series A

+5 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Salesforce's 141 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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141 of 141 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Salesforce stack up?

Salesforce in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

380 founders across the 141 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States157
Israel38
India29
France23
Germany13
Poland11
Nigeria8
Canada8
Argentina6
China6
+13 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University20
Tel Aviv University10
Berkeley10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Technion Israel Institute of Technology7
Carnegie Mellon University7
Georgia Institute of Technology7
University of Oxford6
Yale University6
MIT Sloan School of Management5
+165 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google33
Microsoft23
Salesforce9
OpenAI6
Meta6
PayPal6
Apple5
Stability AI4
eBay4
Amazon4
+96 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Salesforce Ventures

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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Latest news about Salesforce Ventures

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Salesforce — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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