{"id":4633,"date":"2023-08-24T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesforceventures.com\/?post_type=people&#038;p=4633"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:29:19","slug":"samuel-ackah-yensu","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/salesforceventures.com\/ja\/people\/samuel-ackah-yensu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Ackah-Yensu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sam is an investor for Salesforce Ventures based in London. He invests across multiple stages in EMEA with a focus on AI (both infrastructure and applications) and cyber-security. Sam has been directly involved with Salesforce&#8217;s investments in Black Forest Labs, Lovable, Legora, ElevenLabs, Hugging Face, Mistral, Covecta, Protex AI, PointFive, AutogenAI, Convergence (Acq.), and Wiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Salesforce Ventures, he worked in the M&amp;A TMT team for Deutsche Bank in London. 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