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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, and Automation

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Village 9 110 Bishopsgate
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272 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 1007012, JP
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201 Sussex St
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1095 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Ave
New York, New York 10036, US
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Today we are excited to announce our investment in Convergence 🎉 Convergence has just emerged from stealth with a new class of models called Large Meta Learning Models (LMLM). These models are trained to keep acquiring skills during inference time, like a human would through long-term memory and continual learning 🤓 The modern business world is consumed by repetitive, mundane tasks, but these tasks are often unique to the individual’s particular role, relationships, and style of working. Convergence is utilizing their LMLM technology to create personalized AI assistants called “Proxies” which are capable of interacting with existing company systems, collaborating with each other, and collaborating with other humans. We’re excited to back Convergence alongside our friends Balderton Capital and Shopify Ventures! Welcome to Salesforce Ventures, Convergence AI 🙌 https://convergence.ai/
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Congratulations to our own Adrianna Alterman on co-authoring Impact Capital Managers' latest report 🙌 Download your copy today: https://lnkd.in/gNFaZCbB
Just released: We’re thrilled to publish our new report this morning during #ClimateWeekNYC at Cooley LLP's offices. Paths to Partner: Empowering Emerging Leaders for Firm-Wide Success, authored by members of the ICM community, explores the career journeys of partner-level leaders in impact investing, offering practical insights and advice for future leaders. A huge congratulations to the authors of the report: Adrianna Alterman, Emma Sissman, Kendall Bedford, Nicole Calandra, and Rachel Mavrothalasitis! And thank you to all the ICM members and partners who contributed to this report, including:Mark Lewis, Partner, Lime Rock New Energy Elizabeth Wills Chou, Partner, Leeds Illuminate Amy Nelson, Managing Partner, Rethink Education Rohan Wadhwa, Managing Director, Lumos Capital Group Carolyn Farley, Partner, Arborview Capital Stonly Blue, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Third SphereJacqueline Lipkin (Jackie) Lipkin, Partner, SJF Ventures Hope Tarirai Mago, Partner, HCAP PartnersRead the press release here: https://lnkd.in/gxmhgxPMDownload the report here: https://lnkd.in/gNFaZCbB
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Announcing our investment in Ensemble AI 🎆 Co-founders Alex Reneau and Zach A. are helping enterprises get more with less data so they can achieve accurate, impactful, and predictive model outputs. Ensemble's net-new representation learning algorithm learns to approximate hidden relationships in data by outputting embeddings, effectively distilling signal from noise to allow ML models to achieve state-of-the-art performance — even with limited, sparse, and high dimensional datasets. We're beyond excited to support Ensemble alongside our friends at M13, Motivate Venture Capital, and Amplo. Congrats to the entire Ensemble team 🎉 https://lnkd.in/e74Rjxpz
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And that's a wrap on #Dreamforce2024! 🌟 What an incredible final day of insights from our portfolio founders and industry leaders. A few highlights across our entire 3-day experience... AI's Exponential Growth 📈 "2 years ago we heard there's gold. Now we've just started prospecting." – David Kirk (NVIDIA), Vipul Ved Prakash & Ce Zhang (Together AI), Richard Socher (You.com), and Jeff Boudier (Hugging Face) explored AI's rapid evolution and its impact on enterprises in their respective panels. Cutting-Edge AI Applications 🗡 Julia Stiglitz (Uplimit), Rachit Kataria 👨🏽🌾 & William Wang 👨🌾 (Centralize (YC W24)), and Sunil Rao (Tribble) shared how startups are adopting AI. Key takeaway: Data centralization is crucial for AI success. The Future of Enterprise AI 🔮 Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) and Parker Harris (Salesforce) discussed how AI is reshaping customer service and workflow automation. Insight: AI isn't replacing jobs, it's augmenting human capabilities. Trusted AI is 🔑 Arielle Fidel (Together AI) and Kate Jensen (Anthropic) explained why enterprises need to be able to trust AI before they'll integrate it into their product. AI for a Better Tomorrow ☀ Dr. Sasha Luccioni (Hugging Face) emphasized focusing on AI's present-day impacts on climate and equality, rather than hypothetical future scenarios. Sustainable AI 🌳 Peter Swartz (Altana) showcased how AI is driving efficiencies in supply chains and tackling issues like forced labor and climate change. Redefining Creativity with AI 🎨 Cristóbal Valenzuela (Runway) explored how AI is democratizing creativity across industries, stating "Every company is a media company." The imperative of social entrepreneurship 🤝 Edward Norton and Robert W. (Zeck) emphasized the need for entrepreneurs to focus less on financial maximization and more on addressing societal issues. We're incredibly proud of our portfolio companies leading these transformative conversations. Their innovations are not just shaping industries, but creating a better, more sustainable future 🙌 Thank you to everyone who joined us at Dreamforce this year, including our portfolio founders who shared their wisdom on panels as well as all our portfolio companies who sponsored this year's event. And a special thanks to our amazing on-site Dreamforce team, including Matthew Speiser, Samantha Rohman, Trista Myers, Emily Zhao, Tassbieh 'Taz' Hassan, Derek Asbun, Claudine Emeott, storyarb and many more! Thanks for following along with us. Until next year! 👋#SalesforceVentures #DF2024
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"The best entrepreneurs are storytellers, and the best businesses tell stories that matter." – Edward Norton (yes, THAT Edward Norton 😉) Just left an inspiring #Dreamforce session on social entrepreneurship with Edward Norton and Robert W., co-founders of Zeck, moderated by Salesforce Ventures's own Claudine Emeott 🙌 Some of my fav takeaways... 👉 Creativity isn't just for artists. "I don't think you should bifurcate artistic work and entrepreneurial work. Creative work can take many different forms. Everyone involved in building businesses is fundamentally creative." 👉 We're in an era of "world good innovation." There's a rising form of moral, sustainable capitalism that rebuts pure financial maximization. "I'm buoyed by all the people I see working on important hard problems that will meet the challenges we're facing." 👉 Remember the "service" part of SaaS. SaaS, "When you root your feet in that idea of service and what you're doing for others it tends to make the hard work more enjoyable." 👉 The U.S. non-profit sector is unique globally. "People here are self organizing to solve problems vs. make as much money as possible." 👉 Board governance is ripe for disruption. Zeck aims to improve the quality of conversations and relationships in board meetings. "It's a niche experience but not a niche problem. We think it's something that's pretty omnipresent across corporate and non profit." Ed's challenge to entrepreneurs: How can we build businesses that are "legitimately great for people and the world"? It's an important question that deserves all of our concerted focus. What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments 👇 #AIFuture #TechInnovation #Dreamforce2024
Our FINAL portfolio session of Dreamforce is about to kick off, and it’s sure to be a star-studded affair with Edward Norton and Mark Cuban on the panel. Come to the Keynote Room or watch live on Salesforce+ NOW: https://lnkd.in/g5-e4Xv9
Our own Claudine Emeott is about to sit down with Zeck co-founders Robert W. and Edward Norton to discuss social entrepreneurship. Come to the Yerba Buena Theater or watch live NOW on Salesforce+: https://lnkd.in/g53FK6Qa

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