Tag: Impact

Q&A with Propel Founder & CEO Jimmy Chen

A Q&A with Jimmy Chen, founder and CEO of Propel, and Enki Toto, Investor at Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund

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by Enki Toto

How Oyster HR Drives Success by Leading With Impact 

What happens when two business leaders motivated by providing opportunities for others, come together to create a company? An industry-leading technology business, centering impact is born.

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by Enki Toto

Welcome, WeaveGrid!

Our investment in WeaveGrid, the ecosystem enabler for an electric mobility future.

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by Claudine Emeott and Enki Toto

Expanding Our Focus on Impact Investing with a New $100M Fund

I’m excited to announce that this morning Salesforce Ventures launched a new $100M Impact Fund to support innovative companies driving positive social change. In 2017, we launched our first $50M Impact Fund and today we’re expanding our commitment. At Salesforce we’ve been committed to doing good as part of our business model since our founding. Over the last decade,

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by Claudine Emeott

Samasource: A Tribute to Leila Janah, and Why We Invested

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

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by Claudine Emeott