Salesforce Ventures
Corporate VCSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Growth · 36 people tracked
Also known as 株式会社セールスフォース・ジャパン
Deal analysis
- Airtable × Bending Spoons: who got the money home
An estimated liquidation waterfall: the late-stage pref stack took $1.29bn at ~1x, founders took ~$190m, and seed money made ~42x.
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Investment thesis
Salesforce Ventures backs enterprise technology startups, leveraging Salesforce's ecosystem to offer portfolio companies networking, early product feedback, strategic partnerships, and customer introductions to Fortune 500 decision makers. It provides mentorship and domain expertise from enterprise leaders and Salesforce executives, and positions itself as a provider of patient capital emphasizing trust, transparency, and long-term impact. With more than 630 investments and over $6B deployed, it has guided 200+ companies to IPOs and acquisitions.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 36 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 95 of 121 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×71Enterprise Software ×59SaaS ×47Developer Tools ×24Cloud Computing ×19Data & Infrastructure ×13Marketing Tech ×11Cybersecurity ×9
HQs:United States×62Canada×4Germany×1Ireland×1Japan×1Norway×1
Investments · 121 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 32024 · 12023 · 12022 · 12021 · 62020 · 22018 · 22017 · 32015 · 223 dated
Box provides intelligent content management and secure collaboration for enterprise teams, combining unstructured data access and sharing with AI-powered workflows and insights.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US
Dylan Smith(Executive Officer)Aaron Levie(Executive Officer, Director)Dan Levin(Director)Stephanie Carullo(Executive Officer)
BoardJohn Park(Director)Carl Bass(Director)
nCino provides a cloud-based, AI-powered banking platform with role-based AI agents that support commercial, consumer, small business, and mortgage lending, account opening, and portfolio and operations analytics.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSWilmington, US
Pierre Naude(President and Chief Executive Officer)James Mahan(Director)Jonathan Rowe(Director of Marketing)Tom DiVittorio(Head of Product Management and Engineering)Sean Desmond(Head of Professional Services)April Rieger(Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary)
Snowflake is a fully managed cloud data platform that integrates data ingestion, processing, analysis, and AI application development across multiple cloud providers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSan Mateo, US
Jeffrey T. Balaguras(Executive Officer)John McMahon(Director)Michael L. Speiser(Director)Matthew Glickman(Executive Officer)Barbara Walkowski(Executive Officer)Jeremy Burton(Director)
Twilio provides a cloud-based communications platform that enables businesses to integrate voice, messaging, and video into applications using APIs.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Jeff Lawson(Founder)inEvan Cooke(Director)Lee Kirkpatrick(Executive Officer)Roy Ng(Executive Officer)Karyn Smith(Executive Officer)
BoardScott Raney(Director)
Arrived enables individual investors to purchase shares in rental properties starting at $100, with the company handling property management and operations.
B2B MarketplacesFintechMarketplacesPropTechSeattle, US
Ryan Frazier(Co-founder & CEO)Cameron Wu(VP of Investments)
Cloud for Good is a Salesforce consulting and implementation partner that delivers strategy, architecture, integration, data, and AI solutions built on Salesforce and Agentforce.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSaaS
Invoca offers an AI-powered revenue execution platform that connects marketing, commerce, and contact center teams to track and optimize buyer journeys, tying paid media spend to business outcomes and converting leads into sales.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSanta Barbara, US
John Greathouse(Director)Joshua Jacobs(Director)Dan Weigel(Vice President of People and Culture Secretary)Mark Woodward(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardBrett Queener(Director)Jason Spievak(Director)
Optura helps enterprise healthcare organizations identify and implement AI initiatives with measurable returns on investment.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechFranklin, US
Andy Fanning(Co-Founder, CEO)Michael Hollis(Co-Founder, President)
BoardTJ PARKER(Director)
Outreach provides sales engagement and revenue intelligence software for enterprise sales teams to improve customer relationships and close deals more effectively.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSales TechSeattle, US
Manny Medina(Founder)inAbhijit Mitra(CEO)inMelissa Fisher(Executive Officer)
BoardSamuel Fort(Director)Anna Baird(Executive Officer)Karan Mehandru(Director)
Simpplr provides an employee experience platform that consolidates internal communications, information sharing, and collaboration tools into a single workspace, helping organizations improve employee engagement and productivity across distributed teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR Tech
Zeck is software that replaces traditional board decks with interactive, mobile-first board and investor updates, including collaborative workspaces, digitized voting, and auto-generated minutes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Edward Norton(Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)
Zitara develops edge-learning battery management and controls software that uses machine learning to optimize performance, extend life, and improve safety of batteries, with a focus on grid-scale energy storage systems.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergySaaSSan Francisco, US
Shyam Srinivasan(CEO)
Zitara develops software solutions for battery management and monitoring, enabling companies to optimize battery safety, reliability, and performance across design and deployment.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechEnergyIoTSaaSSan Francisco, US
Shyam Srinivasan(Founder)inEvan Murphy(Founder)inLee Hower(Director)
San Francisco, US
Raffi Kamber(Director)Mathieu Lhoumeau(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Florian Parain(Director)
Board seatPaul Drews· per SEC Form D · $30M raise · filed Nov 2018
Password management and security platform, led by David Faugno as CEO.
Redwood City, US
Chamath Palihapitiya(Executive Officer, Director)Sina Sojoodi(Executive Officer, Director)Steven Trieu(Executive Officer)
Airtable is a San Francisco-based no-code platform that lets teams build apps and workflows on a flexible database.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Howie Liu(Co-founder and CEO)inAndrew Ofstad(Co-founder)Emmett Nicholas(Co-founder)
Algolia provides an API platform that enables developers to integrate search and discovery functionality into websites and mobile applications, serving thousands of companies across e-commerce, media, and SaaS.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Nicolas Dessaigne(Founder/Board Member)inJulien Lemoine(Founder/CTO)in
BoardPhilippe Botteri(Director)
Anaplan is an AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform that helps enterprises optimize decision-making by transforming data into actionable insights and enabling dynamic scenario planning.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Charlie Gottdiener(Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board)Michael Gould(Director)Randall Glein(Director)Frederic Laluyaux(Executive Officer, Director)James Budge(Executive Officer)Robert Calderoni(Director)
Aptly is an AI-powered property management software platform that sits above existing PMS systems to unify communication, leasing, maintenance, and operations through AI agents and workflow automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Sina Shekou(Founder & CEO)Adam Silverthorne(Co-Founder & CTO)
Astronomer provides Astro, a platform for running Apache Airflow, the open-source data orchestration tool used by enterprises to manage AI, ML, and analytics pipelines at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Ry Walker(Founder)
Auth0 is an authentication and authorization platform that secures applications, AI agents, and internal tools by providing identity management, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and fine-grained access control capabilities.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBellevue, US
Monica Enand(Director)Carlos Eugenio Pace(Executive Officer, Director)Sunil Nagaraj(Director)Jonathan I. Gelsey(Executive Officer, Director)Peter van Hardenberg(Director)
BoardKaran Mehandru(Director)
PartnerJohn Somorjai· quoted
Automattic develops WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Jetpack, and other web tools that enable publishing, commerce, and messaging.
Creator EconomyE-commerceMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSan Francisco, US
Matt Mullenweg(Founder)Paul Sieminski(Executive Officer)Philip Black(Director)Ann Dunwoody(Director)
BoardToni Schneider(Director)Tony Conrad(Director)
BigID is a data security platform that discovers, classifies, and governs enterprise data across cloud, SaaS, and unstructured environments to enable privacy, security, and compliance.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMamaroneck, US
Nimrod Vax(Secretary, Director)Dimitri Sirota(President, Treasurer, Chief Executive Officer, Director)
AI research lab developing visual intelligence technology including image generation and manipulation models.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsFreiburg, DE
Robin Rombach(Founder)Andreas Blattmann(Founder)Patrick Esser(Founder)
BoardAnjney Midha(Director)
Cloudinary provides visual asset management and optimization tools for e-commerce teams, using AI-driven automation to enhance product images and videos for faster loading and improved conversion rates across sales channels.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS
Code Metal builds "Provable AI" software that helps engineering teams translate, verify, and optimize code across programming languages, architectures, and hardware targets while preserving behavior.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsBoston, US
Richard Alexander Showalter-Bucher(Director, Promoter)Peter Morales(Co-Founder & CEO)Ryan Aytay(President & COO)Alex Showalter-Bucher(Co-Founder & SVP of Technology)Laura Shen(EVP & Head of Growth)Jennifer Paau(SVP of Business Operations & Strategy)
Crosschq provides a platform that delivers data-driven insights throughout the hiring process to help talent leaders optimize recruitment efficiency and hiring outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSDanville, US
Mike Fitzsimmons(CEO)Pete Goettner(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGlenn Solomon(Director)
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ion Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Matei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)David Conte(Executive Officer)Tram Phi(Executive Officer)
BoardPeter Sonsini(Director)
dbt Labs provides a data transformation platform used by teams to organize, catalog, and manage data in their warehouses.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Tristan Handy(Founder & CEO)Drew Banin(Co-Founder)inConnor McArthur(Co-Founder)
Dyna develops general-purpose robots powered by foundation models that adapt across environments and learn new skills rapidly, with deployment across a fleet that continuously improves.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Lovable is an AI-powered platform that enables users to build web applications and websites through conversational chat interactions with artificial intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSDover, US
Fabian Hedin(Executive Officer, Director)Anton Osika(Executive Officer, Director)
Endor Labs provides application security tooling to identify, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities in software development, with particular focus on securing AI-generated code and open-source dependencies.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsPalo Alto, US
Varun Badhwar(Founder & Co-founder)inDimitri Stiliadis(Founder & Co-founder)
Fal provides fast inference for generative AI models, particularly for image and video generation tasks like SDXL and Whisper.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Gorkem Yurtseven(Founder & CEO)inBurkay Gur(Founder)in
BoardSteve Jang(Director)Jennifer Li(Director)Glenn Solomon(Director)
Fetcherr provides generative AI technology for enterprise decision-making across pricing, network management, and business optimization, enabling companies to move from reactive to autonomous operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Dr. Uri Yerushalmi(Co-founder & Chief AI)in
New York, US
Daniel Condomitti(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Murphy(Director)Robert Ross(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardJonathan Lehr(Director)Mark Lotke(Director)
Flockjay is a generative AI-powered sales enablement platform that unifies content management, learning, and coaching for sales teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Shaan Hathiramani(Founder)inBryant Lau(Head of Go-to-Market)Sandip Agrawal(Head of Product & Engineering)
FullStory provides analytics software that captures and analyzes real user behavior across digital products to improve user experience and accelerate AI-driven insights.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAtlanta, US
Scott Voigt(Executive Officer, Director)H. Bruce Johnson, Jr.(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTed Schlein(Director)
Go1 is an online learning platform that aggregates training content from over 250 providers into a single subscription for learning and development leaders.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Andrew Barnes(Founder/CEO)inChris Eigeland(Founder and CEO)inVu Tran(Founder)Chris Hood(Founder/CTO)in
Gong provides AI agents for revenue teams that automate sales workflows including coaching, forecasting, deal management, and customer engagement.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Amit Bendov(CEO & Founder)inEilon Reshef(Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder)
Goodfire is a research company developing interpretability tools to understand and design AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Daniel Kang(Director)Tom McGrath(Director)Daniel Balsam(Director)Eric Ho(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardDeedy Das(Director)Nnamdi Iregbulem(Director)
Graze builds tools on Bluesky and the AT Protocol that let developers, curators, and brands create, manage, and control their own social media algorithms and feeds.
Creator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSocialPortland, US
Devin Gaffney(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Andrew Lisowski(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Peat Bakke(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 10
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioBoxNYSE: BOXDocuSignNASDAQ: DOCUDropboxNASDAQ: DBXMonday ComNASDAQ: MNDYNCinoNASDAQ: NCNOSnowflakeNYSE: SNOWTwilioNYSE: TWLOAirtableacq. by Bending SpoonsQatalogacq. by ClickUpWorkRampacq. by Learning Pool
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies8090 Solutions · intelligence360.news · Aug 4, 2026
Airtable · businesswire.com · Aug 4, 2026
Black Forest Labs · bloomberg.com · Jul 23, 2026
Twilio · fundraiseinsider.com · Jul 19, 2026
Rocket · northwiseproject.com · Jul 18, 2026
Anaplan Inc · pulse2.com · Jul 18, 2026
Vercel · weetracker.com · Jul 17, 2026
BetterUp · fortuneindia.com · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Salesforce Ventures invest at?
- Salesforce Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What is Salesforce Ventures's typical check size?
- Salesforce Ventures typically writes checks of $5M – $50M.
- What sectors does Salesforce Ventures focus on?
- Salesforce Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, EdTech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, Healthtech, SaaS.
- Where is Salesforce Ventures located?
- Salesforce Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Salesforce Ventures lead rounds?
- Salesforce Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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