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Cloud 100 celebration

Highlights From Our Cloud 100 Celebration

What we learned at this year’s Cloud 100 celebration.

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by Salesforce Ventures
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Welcome, Hugging Face!

We are excited to announce that we are leading the Series D round in Hugging Face, who has built the largest and most important open source community in AI today

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by Rob Keith, Emily Zhao and Sam Ackah-Yensu

GENERATIVE AI IN THE ENTERPRISE

How this year’s Cloud 100 companies are approaching Generative AI.

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by Salesforce Ventures
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Welcome, Protect AI!

Announcing our investment in Protect AI, a category creator defining the MLSecOps space with a platform that addresses the security challenges faced by AI and ML systems.

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by Rob Keith and Emily Zhao

Welcome, Pano!

Welcome Pano, a leader in early wildfire detection and intelligence, providing government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners with advanced tools and up-to-the-minute intelligence to quickly mitigate wildfire threats while protecting lives, property, and the environment.

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by Claudine Emeott and Adrianna Alterman

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, Mnemonic!

Welcoming Mnemonic, an NFT data and intelligence provider built for enterprise.

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by Laura Rowson

Doubling down on our Generative AI Fund

Salesforce Ventures is expanding our Generative AI Fund from $250 million to $500 million.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Welcome, Cohere!

Our investment in Cohere, which provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API.

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by Rob Keith 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

Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund Report: Annual Results and Outlook

A retrospective on what our impact team and portfolio experienced in 2022 & encouraging results from our annual impact report.

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by Claudine Emeott, Adrianna Alterman, Enki Toto, Lauryn Poyser and Channing Nesbitt

Salesforce Ventures Launches $250M Generative AI Fund

Announcing the launch of our new $250 million generative AI fund to bolster the startup ecosystem and spark the development of responsible generative AI.

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by Salesforce Ventures