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Automating the Sales Tax Back Office

Summary AI is reshaping software category after category in real time, but tax remains stubbornly manual: expensive partners, manual filings, and services that haven’t scaled. Numeral is well positioned to transform it. Through a powerful wedge in sales tax, Numeral has emerged as a leading next-generation provider for e-commerce businesses, SaaS, manufacturing, wholesale, and beyond.

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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

The Backbone of the Emerging Space Economy

Our investment in Muon Space.

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by Claudine Emeott, Adrianna Alterman and Dom Pusateri

Supply Chain Intelligence for Manufacturing

Our investment in Resilire.

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by Ken Asada and Sho Yamanaka

Lovable’s CFO on Choosing Velocity Over Speed

Andy Toung, CFO of Lovable, on velocity, sequencing, and how AI is changing the speed at which companies operate.

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by Nowi Kallen

The Future of Industrial Energy

Our investment in Antora.

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by Claudine Emeott, Adrianna Alterman and Dom Pusateri

Market Map: Our Security Portfolio

Enterprise security is being rebuilt from scratch — from how code is written, to how the cloud is defended, to how AI agents are governed. These companies are leading the way.

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by Nowi Kallen, Kartik Gupta, Sam Ackah-Yensu and Kevin Wu