Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, we’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world's most tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages our decades of expertise in the cloud and our long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give our portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.

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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

Company size

11-50 employees

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Type

Public Company

Founded

2009

Specialties

Cloud Computing, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Data Stack, Health Tech, Collaboration, Payments, Embedded Finance, Security, Automation, Impact, EdTech, and AI

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  We recently sat down withRajsekhar Kadiyala, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce Ventures portfolio companySRE.ai, for a conversation about building AI-native DevOps, raising capital, and the mindset required to scale an early-stage company.Here are three standout lessons from Raj:💡 Start with customer pain, not just great tech. “As engineers, we get excited about the tech ... but time and time again, we see that being grounded in the customer pain points and keeping our focus on delivering an experience that will fundamentally change customers’ businesses for the better is everything."⚙️ Progress beats perfection. “In the early days, every decision felt like life or death. But a non-optimal solution isn’t the end of the world, as long as you keep learning and moving forward.”🤝 Trust > speed. “For enterprise SaaS, ‘move fast and break things’ doesn’t work. The fastest way to win is to balance innovation and reliability.”Read Raj's full interview withDom Pusateri andRobert Keith to learn more about Raj's journey and the lessons he's learned along the way:https://lnkd.in/eyQE9GHG

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  Congratulations to our portfolio foundersVarun Sivaram (Emerald AI) andDouglas Johnson-Poensgen (Circulor) on being named to the TIME100 Climate list — recognizing business leaders driving climate action 🤝

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  Today,TIME reveals the 2025 TIME100 Climate list — recognizing 100 leaders driving real progress in business climate action. From Pope Leo XIV, King Charles III and Gov. Josh Green to innovators likeEsther Finidori (Schneider Electric),Dr. Eva Riesenhuber (Siemens),Ola Kaellenius (Mercedes-Benz AG) and many more, these changemakers are shaping a more sustainable future. 🌎 This year’s cover was created by artist Michael Papadakis (Sunscribes), who “paints with the sun.” Using magnifying glasses to capture and focus sunlight, he spent 10 days burning the image into wood in Boise, Idaho. ☀️ Explore the full list, presented by official timepieceROLEX, and this extraordinary cover:https://lnkd.in/eqpZ94gp

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  We’re excited to announce our investment inEmerald AI ⚡As AI’s compute needs surge, global power demand is climbing to unprecedented levels — creating one of the most pressing bottlenecks for innovation.Emerald AI is tackling this challenge head-on with a breakthrough approach: enabling data centers to flex their power use in real time without compromising AI performance. Their Conductor platform dynamically orchestrates AI workloads, allowing facilities to reduce consumption during grid stress events — unlocking new capacity without new power generation.Led byVarun Sivaram, Emerald is setting a new standard for how AI infrastructure and the power grid can work together. We’re proud to partner with Emerald AI alongsideLowercarbon Capital,Radical Ventures,NVIDIA, andNational Grid as they help power the future of AI.🔗Enki T. and Claudine Emeott shared more about our investment in Emerald in our latest blog post:https://lnkd.in/e8CnKaEU

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  🎙️ “When you look forward to all of these net new ambitions in AI, the digital economy, and the electrification of the economy, all of that is going to require net new infrastructure. We as infrastructure providers have to bring the energy — as well as the data centers and the compute clusters — to bring to bear a lot of these interesting ambitions happening in the world.” That was our CEO and co-founderChase Lochmiller’s call to action at DreamForce 2025, where he joinedEmerald AI'sVarun Sivaram andBase Power Company’sJustin Lopas for a panel discussion, "Powering the Next AI Frontier," moderated bySalesforce Ventures’ Claudine Emeott.Chase shared how Crusoe’s energy-first, vertically integrated approach to AI infrastructure is meeting today’s unprecedented surge in demand for AI factories by: ⚡ Converting wasted or negatively-priced electricity into productive energy use🏗️ Building in places like Abilene, TX that haven’t historically been data center markets 👷 Creating our in-house manufacturing plant to build specialized equipment ourselves to shorten build times 🎥 Watch the full conversation:

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  Dreamforce 2025 brought tremendous energy onsite and opportunities to discuss the excitement with industry experts, includingKate Strachnyi from DATAcated. Kate and I covered a lot, fromSalesforce's disciplined M&A framework – including the pendingInformatica deal and how our recent acquisition ofRegrello is now powering our Agentforce Supply Chain – to the exciting evolution ofSalesforce Ventures and its focus on delivering value to founders.A big thank you to Kate for the insightful conversation. If you missed us onsite, be sure to watch the full conversation here:https://lnkd.in/gNkhyPgV #DF25

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  Last week I had a great conversation withJohn Somorjai, Chief Corporate Development & Investments Officer atSalesforce, who has led many of Salesforce’s most transformative acquisitions. 🚀#sponsoredWith more than 20 years at Salesforce, John shared how his team identifies and integrates companies that become part of the Salesforce family, including the pendingInformatica deal andRegrello, now part of Salesforce’s Agentforce Supply Chain. We also covered the 15-year journey ofSalesforce Ventures, highlighting its evolution to a financially driven firm that is laser focused on delivering value to founders. John shared how the team supports portfolio companies through customer introductions, enterprise expertise, and practical guidance for pitching success.Watch the full conversation below. #DF25#SalesforcePartner

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  We’re thrilled to announce our investment inCrusoe ⚡ Crusoe is tackling one of the most urgent challenges of the AI era: the growing energy bottleneck. As AI’s compute needs surge, global power demand is reaching unprecedented levels. Crusoe is meeting this moment with a distinctive, vertically integrated “energy-first” approach — securing stranded or underutilized energy sources and building advanced AI compute infrastructure around them.From pioneering AI-optimized cloud computing to constructing one of the world’s largest data centers in Texas (a key site supporting OpenAI’s workloads),Chase Lochmiller,Cully Cavness, and their team are redefining what sustainable AI infrastructure looks like.The future of AI will be powered by energy innovation, and Crusoe is helping lead the charge 🚀 🔗Adrianna Alterman,Enki T., and Claudine Emeott shared more about our investment in Crusoe in our latest blog post:https://lnkd.in/e7bk59fe

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  "Really think about the market that you're entering into. They say ideas are cheap and execution is everything. But I actually think ideas are just as important as execution. What we choose to go and execute on matters a lot." –Russ d'Sa on his advice to entrepreneurs.

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  Really fun convo at Dreamforce last week withRuss d'Sa, Founder and CEO ofLiveKit 📹 🍿

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  Highlights from another great convo I had last week at#DF25 withAltana CEO and Co-FounderEvan Smith 📹

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  "My best piece of advice for entrepreneurs is that you have to be very tenacious. Don't give up. People will say 'no' a thousand times. If you have the inner belief that what you're doing is right, keep going." –Alon Arvatz, CEO,PointFive

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  Had a chance to interviewAlon Arvatz, CEO and Co-Founder ofSalesforce Ventures portfolio companyPointFive, at Dreamforce last week 🍿 🎬

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  Aaaand that's a wrap on another great Dreamforce 🏁 And what a week it was — here's a quick rundown from a jam-packed hashtag#DF25:🗣️ More than a dozen Salesforce Ventures portfolio leaders took center-stage at Dreamforce, including great sessions fromDario Amodei,Varun Sivaram,Justin Lopas,Chase Lochmiller,May Habib,Mati Staniszewski,Deepak Pathak,Lindon Gao,Allan Thygesen,Richard Socher,Percy Liang,Alon Arvatz,Evan Smith, andGuillermo Rauch.🤖 An exciting update from our AI Fund, which is on track to fully deploy $1B by the end of 2025 to support founders building secure, trustworthy AI:https://lnkd.in/ejYa79vE🤝 Some timely and valuable networking between our portfolio and the broader Salesforce ecosystem. Being able to connect our founders with customers and industry experts who can help advance their mission is one of our favorites parts of Dreamforce.❤️ Some well-earned connection time with the Salesforce Ventures team, many of whom flew in from near and far to be with our portfolio and team during an action-packed week.🎶 And of course, a one-of-a-kind Dreamfest, featuring the smooth sounds of Benson Boone and the (not so smooth) sounds of Metallica.Another Dreamforce for the books! Thanks to Salesforce for making it the best one yet. Until next year ✌

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