Salesforce Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Salesforce Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. 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, offering financial 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.
- Total investments:
- 992
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
- Fund size:
- $1B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Salesforce Ventures invests in
Stages Salesforce Ventures invests in
Countries Salesforce Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.8M–$38M
- Series B
- $5M–$96M
- Series C
- $20M–$300M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 297 (30%)
- SaaS 162 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 155 (16%)
- Information Technology 147 (15%)
- Enterprise Software 103 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 177 (18%)
- Series A 173 (17%)
- Series C 133 (13%)
- Seed 112 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 105 (11%)
Country
- United States 413 (42%)
- Japan 67 (7%)
- United Kingdom 23 (2%)
- Canada 22 (2%)
- Australia 18 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ken Asada
Partner, Head of Japan
|
Partner, Head of Japan | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Alexandra Makreas
Head of Marketing and Communications
|
Head of Marketing and Communications | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Claudine Emeott
Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund
|
Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Emily Zhao
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
|
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development | Total investments: 29 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| LM Arena provides a platform for testing AI models. LM Arena serves as an essential resource for researchers and developers worldwide. As the AI field expands, the importance of reliable benchmarking tools like LM Arena remains undeniable. The company also operates Chatbot Arena, a specialized service for evaluating artificial intelligence systems. | $200M / Series B / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development. | $11.9M / Series A / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Numeral is a tax compliance software company that helps businesses manage sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations. | $100M / Series C / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry. | $114.4M / Series D / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Mistral AI develops artificial intelligence models, applications, and infrastructure for organizations and developers. Its product portfolio includes Vibe for autonomous work and coding, Studio for building and deploying AI applications, Forge for training and customizing models, and Compute for AI training and inference infrastructure. The company also provides frontier models, APIs, model customization, document intelligence, speech solutions, and applied AI services for business and public-sector use cases. Its deployment options include self-hosted environments, Mistral-hosted services, and integrations through cloud providers. Mistral AI supports applications such as enterprise knowledge search, data analysis, document synthesis, coding, agent orchestration, model evaluation, and domain-specific AI development. | $3.5B / Series D / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development. | $3.9B / Series F / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform. | $300M / Series C / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that. | $99M / Secondary Market / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Emerald AI creates a platform that enables AI data centers to adjust power consumption from electricity grids dynamically. This system orchestrates computing loads across data centers to bolster grid reliability. The technology aims to advance AI innovation while ensuring power affordability and electric system stability. | $150M / Series A / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Quaestor is an automated data platform that enables financial transparency between startups and investors. | $21.3M / Series B / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| See all 992 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Salesforce Ventures invest in?
Salesforce Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 992 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Salesforce Ventures invest in?
Salesforce Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$38M at Series A, $5M–$96M at Series B and $20M–$300M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Salesforce Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Salesforce Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Salesforce Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Salesforce Ventures?
The team at Salesforce Ventures includes Ken Asada (Partner, Head of Japan), Alexandra Makreas (Head of Marketing and Communications) and Claudine Emeott (Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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