{"id":1344,"date":"2022-04-25T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesforce.reaktivdev.com\/people\/nowi-kallen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:18:22","slug":"nowi-kallen","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/salesforceventures.com\/ja\/people\/nowi-kallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowi Kallen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nowi Kallen is a Partner at Salesforce Ventures. He focuses on multi-stage investing in software companies addressing big pain points, particularly in cybersecurity, AI &amp; cloud infrastructure, and vertical AI. Investments he led include Black Forest Labs, Lovable, ElevenLabs, Legora, Chainguard, Fetcherr, Wiz (acquired by Alphabet), PointFive, Sixfold, and Avalor (acquired by Zscaler). 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