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Salesforce Ventures

Corporate venture · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026

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137 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #37 · Global · 137 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 51% 5y
124
Decacorns ↑ 55% 5y
17
Thoroughbreds ↑ 118% 5y
105
Featured in #37Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 0.5%

Salesforce Ventures is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 2009. The page below shows 137 Power Law outcomes from Salesforce Ventures's portfolio — 124 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · Japan · Australia. Salesforce ranks #37 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 137 Salesforce Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA110
  2. Japan3
  3. Australia3
  4. UK3
  5. Germany3
  6. Canada2
  7. France2
  8. Switzerland2
  9. India2
  10. Sweden2
  11. Finland1
  12. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. AI29
  2. Other B2B Software28
  3. Marketing27
  4. Fintech20
  5. Cybersecurity16
  6. Edtech6
  7. Health Tech & Medtech3
  8. Transportation3
  9. Other2
  10. Energy2
  11. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+112
  2. Series A18
  3. Seed3
01 · Portfolio market map

Salesforce's 137 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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137 of 137 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Salesforce's founders come from — and where they study.

379 founders across the 137 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States156
Israel38
India29
France23
Germany13
Poland11
Nigeria8
Canada8
Argentina6
China6
+15 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University20
Tel Aviv University10
Berkeley10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Carnegie Mellon University7
Technion Israel Institute of Technology6
University of Oxford6
Yale University5
MIT Sloan School of Management5
Georgia Institute of Technology5
+164 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google31
Microsoft22
Salesforce9
OpenAI6
PayPal6
Meta6
Apple5
Amazon5
Stability AI4
eBay4
+92 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Salesforce.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Salesforce stack up?

Salesforce in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Salesforce Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Salesforce on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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