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, 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.
- Total investments:
- 959
- 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
- $4M–$40M
- Series B
- $5M–$96M
- Series C
- $20M–$300M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 179 (19%)
- SaaS 99 (10%)
- Information Technology 81 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 69 (7%)
- Enterprise Software 66 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 105 (11%)
- Series A 90 (9%)
- Series C 85 (9%)
- Seed 55 (6%)
- Funding Round 54 (6%)
Country
- United States 221 (23%)
- Japan 48 (5%)
- United Kingdom 17 (2%)
- Canada 14 (1%)
- Australia 13 (1%)
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
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Head of Marketing and Communications | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Claudine Emeott
Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund
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Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Emily Zhao
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
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Executive Vice President, Corporate Development | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Mistral AI
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Mistral AI develops artificial intelligence models, applications, and infrastructure for organizations and developers. | $3.5B / Series D / Sep 08, 2026 | |
Upwind Security
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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
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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
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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 | |
Standard Metrics
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Quaestor is an automated data platform that enables financial transparency between startups and investors. | $21.3M / Series B / Aug 24, 2026 | |
Muon Space
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Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems company that designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations to deliver critical data and enable real-time compute and decision-making in space. Its proprietary technology stack, Halo™, integrates advanced spacecraft platforms, robust payload integration and management, and apowerful software-defined orchestration layer to enable high-performance capabilities at unprecedented speed – from concept to orbit. With state-of-the-art production facilities in Silicon Valley and a growing track record of commercial and national security customers, Muon Space is redefining how critical Earth intelligence is delivered from space. | $250M / Series C / Aug 20, 2026 | |
Resilire
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The management service for Supply-chain risks. | $10.9M / Series B / Aug 19, 2026 | |
Lovable
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Lovable builds software that builds software. Lovable vision is to unlock human creativity by enabling anyone to create software. | $400M / Series C / Aug 12, 2026 | |
Antora Energy
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Antora Energy delivers zero-carbon industrial heat and power to heavy industries that are more reliable than fossil fuels. Antora’s thermal energy storage soaks up excess solar and wind electricity and uses it to heat blocks of carbon so they glow like inside a toaster. | $550M / Series C / Jul 30, 2026 | |
Centralize
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Centralize is an IT firm that analyzes touch points with the help of tools and stakeholders for pre and post-sales teams. | $15M / Series A / Jul 29, 2026 | |
| See all 959 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Salesforce Ventures invest in?
Salesforce Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 959 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Salesforce Ventures's check size?
Salesforce Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$40M at Series A, $5M–$96M at Series B and $20M–$300M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Salesforce Ventures participates 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.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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