Salesforce

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.