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The Hard Part of Quantum Isn’t the Hardware

Our investment in Q-CTRL.

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by Rob Keith and Kevin Wu

Hardware Learned to Move Fast. Its Data Infrastructure Didn’t.

Our investment in Nominal.

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by Rob Keith and Kevin Wu

Autonomous Delivery Has Liftoff

Our investment in Zipline.

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by Claudine Emeott, Enki Toto, Dom Pusateri and Pascha Hao

Beyond the Leaderboard: The Platform for AI Evaluation and Alignment

Our investment in Arena.

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by Emily Zhao, Nathan Ho and Caroline Fiegel

AI-Native Customer Feedback Analysis

Our investment in Flyle.

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by Ken Asada and Sho Yamanaka
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Automating the Sales Tax Back Office

Our investment in Numeral.

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by Pascha Hao, Katie Schwartz Thiry and Zak Kokosa

Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller on Scaling AI Infrastructure to Meet Demand

Chase Lochmiller anticipated the AI energy challenge. Now his company is powering some of the world's largest AI workloads.

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by Claudine Emeott

The AI Data Platform for Manufacturing

Our investment in CADDi.

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by Ken Asada and Sho Yamanaka

The Salesforce Ventures Guide to Dreamforce 2026

Everything founders need to know to make the most of Dreamforce 2026.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Congratulations, Hugging Face!

On the intended acquisition of Hugging Face by NVIDIA.

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by Rob Keith, Emily Zhao and Sam Ackah-Yensu

Congratulations, Altruist!

On the intended acquisition of Altruist by Vanguard.

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by Zak Kokosa, Rob Keith and Pascha Hao

The Agent-First Developer Stack

Our investment in Linear.

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by Rob Keith and Caroline Fiegel