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Salesforce Ventures

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Total investments 757
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$45M
Portfolio companies 470
Rounds per year 50.47
Lead investments 95
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 106
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

Salesforce Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States. Salesforce Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Salesforce Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2019. This Salesforce Ventures works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infor, Dropbox, MuleSoft. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Enterprise Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Salesforce Ventures, startups are often financed by Trinity Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shasta Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, ICONIQ Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mayfield Fund, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Florence

Health Care
Software
$60M21 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Oleria

Cyber Security
Security
$33M18 Jan 2024 -

AutogenAI

Artificial Intelligence
Business Development
Language Learning
$39M06 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Amini

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Software
$4M30 Nov 2023 -

FastLabel

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$10M29 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Cerby

Cyber Security
Software
$17M22 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Thunder

Business Intelligence
Consulting
Management Consulting
$16M08 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$35M26 Jul 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Sylvera

Information Technology
Software
$59M18 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Spenmo Raises US$34M in Series A Funding

– Spenmo, a Singapore-based provider of payments software for growing businesses, raised a US$34M Series A funding.
– The round was led by New York-based private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners with participation from Lee Fixel’s Addition, Salesforce Ventures, Alpha JWC, Global Founders’ Capital, Broadhaven, Operator Partners and Commerce Ventures, and angel investors such as William Hockey (Founder of Plaid), Reuben Lai (Senior MD, Grab Financial Group) and Ongki Kurniawan (Head of Stripe Indonesia, Ex-Head of Grab Indonesia).
– After its launch in Singapore last year, Spenmo has since expanded across Southeast Asia and has thousands of customers from various sectors, including high-growth startups, SMBs, mid-market companies, and accounting firms.

Propel Announces $20 Million Series C to Help Manufacturers Deliver Long Term Customer Engagement

– Propel announced it has raised $20m in Series C financing.
– The investment was led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Green D Ventures and TIFF.
– The company has raised a total of $48m in funding to date.
– With this new round of funding, Propel will continue its development of Product 360 – the only unified quality management (QMS), product lifecycle management (PLM) and commercialization solution built on Salesforce.
– By connecting product, quality, customer and supplier information in a single platform, Product 360 helps manufacturers launch products faster, simplify quality and compliance, and improve their employee user experience.

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Total investments 757
Average round size 45M
Rounds per year 50.47
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 95
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 106
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Florence

Health Care
Software
$60M21 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Oleria

Cyber Security
Security
$33M18 Jan 2024 -

AutogenAI

Artificial Intelligence
Business Development
Language Learning
$39M06 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Amini

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Software
$4M30 Nov 2023 -

FastLabel

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$10M29 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Cerby

Cyber Security
Software
$17M22 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Thunder

Business Intelligence
Consulting
Management Consulting
$16M08 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$35M26 Jul 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Sylvera

Information Technology
Software
$59M18 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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