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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 139 Power Law outcomes from Salesforce's portfolio — 32 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 · Japan · Australia. Salesforce ranks #253 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

139 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #253 · Global · 139 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 23% 5y
32
Decacorns ↑ 300% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 131% 5y
30
01 · Exits

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
Now $58.4B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.0B IPO · 2016
Now $27.2B
$1.6B IPO · 2017
Now $23.9B
$9.2B IPO · 2019
Now $23.5B
$15.7B IPO · 2019
Now $23.4B
IPO · 2013
Now $15.7B
$1.4B IPO · 2018
Now $10.7B
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Now $9.1B
$4.5B IPO · 2018
Now $8.9B
IPO · 2014
Now $8.9B
buyout · 2015
Now $8.0B
$7.5B IPO · 2021
Now $3.0B
$1.5B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $6.5B
$6.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $4.1B
$4.0B IPO · 2021
Now $298M
$3.5B acquisition · 2026
$2.8B IPO · 2020
Now $1.9B
IPO · 2012
Now $2.5B
$2.0B acquisition · 2025
$1.9B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
$1.8B buyout · 2018
Entered Series A
$1.6B acquisition · 2018
02 · Estimated holdings

Salesforce’s selected top 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 →

+9 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 139 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. USA111
  2. Japan3
  3. Australia3
  4. UK3
  5. Germany3
  6. Israel2
  7. Canada2
  8. France2
  9. Switzerland2
  10. India2
  11. Sweden2
  12. Finland1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software31
  2. AI28
  3. Marketing27
  4. Fintech20
  5. Cybersecurity16
  6. Edtech6
  7. Health Tech & Medtech3
  8. Transportation3
  9. Other2
  10. Energy2
  11. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+28
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed1
04 · Portfolio market map

Salesforce's 139 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
139 of 139 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 35 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

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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 Salesforce's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

392 founders across the 139 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 States161
Israel44
India29
France23
Germany13
Poland11
Canada11
Nigeria8
United Kingdom7
Argentina6
+15 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University19
Tel Aviv University12
Berkeley10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Carnegie Mellon University7
Technion Israel Institute of Technology6
University of Oxford6
Yale University5
MIT Sloan School of Management5
Georgia Institute of Technology5
+169 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google29
Microsoft22
Salesforce10
OpenAI6
PayPal6
Meta6
Apple5
Amazon5
Yahoo!5
Stability AI4
+95 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

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

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

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