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Salesforce

Founders Halsey Minor Marc Benioff Parker Harris

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Total investments 70
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 2.80
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 13
Key employees 30

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Non Profit
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

In 1999 was created Salesforce, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Twilio, MongoDB, Evariant. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, FinTech.

This organization was formed by Halsey Minor, Marc Benioff, Parker Harris. The overall number of key employees were 28.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Salesforce works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Salesforce, startups are often financed by Peery Foundation, Ullas Naik, T. Rowe Price. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Nexus Ventures, BEENEXT, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Senshu Ikeda Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mistral AI

$454M10 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Edulytics

Artificial Intelligence
Content
E-Learning
EdTech
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
$318K15 Nov 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mobile Pathways

Mobile
$1M15 Dec 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Apromore

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
$11M05 Dec 2022 Parkville, New South Wales, Australia

ThreeKit

3D Printing
Computer
Information Technology
Product Design
SaaS
Software
$35M09 Nov 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Wiz

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Security
$250M11 Oct 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Internet
Robotics
Software
$1M28 Sep 2020 Chiyoda

i2max

Cloud Computing
Consulting
Information Technology
27 Feb 2020 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Recruiting
Task Management
$4M20 Feb 2020 Chiyoda

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Total investments 70
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 2.80
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.54

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mistral AI

$454M10 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Edulytics

Artificial Intelligence
Content
E-Learning
EdTech
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
$318K15 Nov 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mobile Pathways

Mobile
$1M15 Dec 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Apromore

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
$11M05 Dec 2022 Parkville, New South Wales, Australia

ThreeKit

3D Printing
Computer
Information Technology
Product Design
SaaS
Software
$35M09 Nov 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Wiz

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Security
$250M11 Oct 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Internet
Robotics
Software
$1M28 Sep 2020 Chiyoda

i2max

Cloud Computing
Consulting
Information Technology
27 Feb 2020 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Recruiting
Task Management
$4M20 Feb 2020 Chiyoda
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