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Salesforce
Corporate venture · Founded 1999 · Active in 2026
Salesforce is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 1999. The page below shows 139 Power Law outcomes from Salesforce's portfolio — 32 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · AI · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · Japan · Australia. Salesforce ranks #253 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
The 139 Salesforce Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA111
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Japan3
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Australia3
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UK3
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Germany3
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Israel2
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Canada2
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France2
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Switzerland2
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India2
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Sweden2
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Finland1
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Other B2B Software31
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AI28
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Marketing27
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Fintech20
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Cybersecurity16
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Edtech6
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Transportation3
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Other2
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Energy2
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Robotics1
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Series B+28
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Series A5
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Seed1
Salesforce's 139 Power Law outcomes.
Where Salesforce's founders come from — and where they study.
392 founders across the 139 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.
Key people at Salesforce.
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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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsSentiment on X
What X is saying about Salesforce
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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Latest news about Salesforce
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