Perspectives

Salesforce Ventures is doubling down on its position in Snowflake with another $250 million investment while continuing to invest in data-centric companies that are fueling the next generation of digital transformation.

This morning, for the fifth year in a row, in partnership with Forbes and Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures is excited to reveal the 2020 Cloud 100, the definitive list of the world’s top 100 private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks.

Key Takeaway: The more profoundly you understand what your customers are going through, the more you can help them solve their problems.

We’ve provided a roundup of resources being offered by Salesforce Ventures portfolio companies.

Salesforce Ventures surveyed its portfolio of enterprise technology startups to learn how CEOs are leading their teams through these uncertain times.

We surveyed our portfolio companies to ask about the state of their business and the changes they’re making across their organizations to prepare for both short- and long-term market shifts.

Even though we can’t all get together in person right now, we can still pitch in to support our communities.

We are all facing the same existential threat right now — and it’s profoundly more challenging than anything else most of us have experienced. At Salesforce, our priority has been on making sure our employees, families, and communities are safe and healthy. We’ve also maintained our focus on customer success and Salesforce has shared a number

The cloud boom has led to an explosion in productivity, but many potential gains remain untapped due to challenges in managing all the resulting data. Salesforce Ventures announces its intention to support companies that make sense of it all, including a new investment in Snowflake.

On Friday, January 24 I received the devastating news that Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, had died after a brief but hard-fought battle with a rare cancer. In the last week and a half, I’ve talked with many people who knew Leila, and I’ve uncovered a common thread of not only grief but also

Why Salesforce Ventures just invested in the Threekit Series A

Today we are thrilled to announce our investment and partnership with Algolia as part of its Series C round together with Accel. With more than 8,000 customers worldwide — including Stripe, Twitch, Slack, Intuit, Sephora, LVMH, and Birchbox — Algolia quickly has become one of the most exciting businesses emerging out of Europe. We’ve known co-founders Nicolas