Paul Drews

Managing Partner

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Paul is Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures. Paul focuses on application and infrastructure software investments across all stages. He is currently a board observer or actively involved with our investments in Airbyte, Anthropic, Astronomer, Databricks, Lyra, Runway, Starburst, Vercel, Vivun and VNDLY (acquired by Workday)

Prior to joining Salesforce Ventures, Paul was a partner at Tenaya Capital, where he led investments in companies including Concord and Streamsets (acquired by Software AG). He was formerly a vice president at Battery Ventures, where he was actively involved with the firm’s investments in companies including Collibra, Jfrog (NASDAQ: FROG), Opsgenie (acquired by Atlassian), and Streamsets. Paul holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in economics from Duke University.

Based in San Francisco, CA
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Insights from Paul Drews

The New Enterprise Software Playbook: Lessons From Zeck and G2

Insights from our event with Edward Norton and Godard Abel.

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by Rob Keith, and Paul Drews

The Long Game: How Salesforce Ventures is Reimagining VC

Playing the long game alongside the most enterprising founders.

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by Paul Drews

Welcome, Writer!

The full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises.

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by Laura Rowson, Pascha Hao, and Paul Drews

How Can Startups Sell to Enterprises in 2024?

A data-driven analysis of how startups are selling to enterprises.

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by Paul Drews, Brian James Murphy, and Matthew Speiser

Elevate 2024: Revolutionary Leadership – Lessons From CEOs

Takeaways from our leadership panel at Salesforce Ventures’ annual CEO summit.

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by Paul Drews

Welcome, Runway!

Announcing our investment in Runway, a pioneer in democratizing AI tools for a new generation of storytelling and content creation.

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by Paul Drews, and Emily Zhao

Welcome, Anthropic!

Our investment in Anthropic, an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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by Paul Drews, and Emily Zhao
Vivun Series C

Finally, the Sales Team Behind the Sales Team Gets Some Love

Salesforce Ventures leads the $75 million-Series C round for Vivun, the first software company to help PreSales teams sell more efficiently and inform product development.

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by Paul Drews, and Dom Pusateri

Modern Treasury: Improving the way businesses move and track money

Today, many companies throw people at the problem. They hire people to handle payments; engineers to build bank integrations; and finance people to send checks and wires, reconcile payments, and close the books each month. This poor experience is primarily driven by the infrastructure that facilitates these transactions, which is arcane, slow, mostly manual, and

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by Paul Drews, Katie Schwartz Thiry, and Zak Kokosa

Data Engineering is Making Relying on Gut Decisions A Thing of the Past

Salesforce Ventures places another bet on the continued, massive growth of data and invests in data observability startup Monte Carlo.

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by Paul Drews

The Secret to Creating the Next Big Thing on the Web, Fast: Vercel

Salesforce Ventures announces its investment in Vercel, a platform that makes it easier for front-end developers to build better, faster, more flexible online experiences.

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by Paul Drews

Class is in Session

Announcing our investment in Class Technologies which provides much-needed solutions for teachers and students in virtual and hybrid classrooms.

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by Paul Drews, and Laura Rowson