John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development @ Salesforce Ventures
San Francisco, United States
John Somorjai is a Series A investor at Salesforce Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. John Somorjai is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Salesforce Ventures at salesforce.com. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of mergers and acquisitions, and investments. John’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas through acquisitions includingExact Target, Radian6, Buddy Media, Heroku, Jigsaw, Instranet, and Rypple, and also brought onboard a number of key leaders.In addition, his team has made investments in more than 100 technology companies located in the US, Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, China, and Israel.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries John Somorjai invests in
Stages John Somorjai invests in
Countries John Somorjai invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (35%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (30%)
- Information Technology 6 (30%)
- Machine Learning 4 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (15%)
- Series C 3 (15%)
- Funding Round 3 (15%)
- Seed 2 (10%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 12 (60%)
- Japan 1 (5%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $500M / Series D / Aug 14, 2025 | |
Genesys
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Every year, Genesys orchestrates more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service SM our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power todeliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. | $1.5B / Corporate Round / Jul 31, 2025 | |
Typeface
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Typeface is a generative AI application for creating enterprise content. Any enterprise can now create exceptional, on-brand content faster and easier than ever before by combining content velocity with brand personalization and control. It offers self-service content development solutions for the entire lifecycle, allowing every employee to createcaptivating content with ease, speed, and brand authenticity. | $100M / Series B / Jun 29, 2023 | |
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Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $270M / Series C / May 02, 2023 | |
Hearth AI
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Hearth AI is a next-generation relationship management system that meets the new network decision-making standard. The company is based in New York, New York. | Seed / Mar 07, 2023 | |
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Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | Mar 07, 2023 | |
Hearth.AI
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Hearth.AI is an artificial intelligence platform designed to deliver semantic network searches. The platform of the firm provides a follow-up process and connection network, allowing consumers to retain warm ties. | Seed / Mar 07, 2023 | |
Ellevest
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Ellevest provides an engaging investing experience to help women meet their financial goals in life.Ellevest offers a modern, engaging user experience. The same care, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail that is reflected in its beautiful, easy-to-use interface are applied to the construction of its portfolios, its selection of investments,and the development of the algorithms that drive its forecasts and recommendations. | $53M / Series B / Apr 06, 2022 | |
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Genesys
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Every year, Genesys orchestrates more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service SM our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power todeliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. | $580M / Private Equity / Dec 06, 2021 | |
Auth0
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AAuth0 is an identity management platform for application builders and developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs.Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on variousplatforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Its platform also allows users to authenticate to active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other IdPs without having to configure firewall; add and remove users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues; see a stream of recent logins and their locations; and enable various SaaS and SAML-enabled applications.Auth0's solution works with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Its platform is used by large and small enterprises, and startups. | $120M / Series F / Jul 14, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures provides venture capital funding and growth support for enterprise software companies. The firm invests globally across a range of sectors including cloud infrastructure, security, AI, data and infrastructure platforms, and industry-specific applications. It supports companies from seed stage through growth rounds, offeringfinancial backing along with connections to enterprise customers and integration opportunities within a wider cloud ecosystem. Salesforce Ventures also aims to help its portfolio firms through strategic introductions, feedback, and access to network resources to support development and market entry.
Salesforce Ventures Contacts
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Ken Asada
Partner, Head of Japan
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Alexandra Makreas
Head of Marketing and Communications
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Claudine Emeott
Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund
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Emily Zhao
Principal
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John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
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What does John Somorjai invest in?
John Somorjai invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did John Somorjai last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Somorjai closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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