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Salesforce
Corporate venture · Founded 1999 · Active in 2026
Salesforce is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 1999. The page below shows 147 Power Law outcomes from Salesforce's portfolio — 33 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · AI · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Germany. Salesforce ranks #253 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
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.
+10 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 147 Salesforce Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA118
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UK3
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Germany3
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Japan3
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Australia3
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Singapore2
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India2
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France2
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Sweden2
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Canada2
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Switzerland2
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Israel2
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Other B2B Software33
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AI32
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Marketing28
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Fintech22
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Cybersecurity16
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Edtech6
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Transportation3
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Other2
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Energy2
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Series B+29
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Series A5
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Seed1
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.
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Anthropic
4%
$900B
$36.0B
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2
Automattic
9.6%
$7.5B
$720M
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3
Cohere
3%
$20.0B
$600M
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4
Airwallex
4%
$8.0B
$320M
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5
Gong
4%
$7.2B
$290M
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6
Mistral AI
1.8%
$13.8B
$248M
- 7 3.2% $7.4B $237M
- 8 2.5% $9.3B $233M
- 9 3.2% $6.8B $218M
- 10 5.5% $3.3B $182M
- 11 3.5% $4.7B $164M
- 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 147 Power Law outcomes.
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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Salesforce's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
385 founders across the 147 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.
Key people at Salesforce.
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
In the news
Latest news about Salesforce
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