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At a glance
Salesforce Ventures appears in 13 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2021, leading 1. Its most frequent sectors in these rounds are AI & Infrastructure and Developer Tools, and its most recent tracked deal was Arena's $200M Series B round (Oct 8, 2026). It co-invests most often with Nvidia, Tiger Global Management and General Catalyst. ValueAddVC also tracks 1 fund managed by Salesforce Ventures.
Strategy
Stages
SeedGrowth
Sectors
Enterprise TechnologyAIData InfrastructureSecurity
Geographies
USASan Francisco, California, USA
Check size
$5M-$100MRecent changes
- Oct 8, 2026Oct 8, 2026Invested in Arena (Series B, $200M) TechCrunch
- Sep 23, 2026Sep 23, 2026Invested in Numeral (Series C, $100M) Business Wire
- Sep 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026Sectors updated: Enterprise Technology, AI, Data Infrastructure, Security salesforceventures.com
- Sep 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026Stages updated: Seed, Growth salesforceventures.com
- Aug 25, 2026Aug 25, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Emerald AI (Series A, $150M) Emerald AI
Earlier changes (12)
- Aug 20, 2026Aug 20, 2026Invested in Muon Space (Series C, $250M) Bloomberg
- Jun 30, 2026Jun 30, 2026Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures Pulse story
- Jun 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026Invested in Upscale AI (Series A-1 (extension), $190M) Fortune
- Jun 10, 2026Jun 10, 2026Invested in Hark (Series A, $700M) Crunchbase News
- Jun 5, 2026Jun 5, 2026Invested in Supabase (Series F, $500M) TechCrunch
- Apr 1, 2026Apr 1, 2026Invested in Emerald AI (Strategic, $25M) esgtoday.com
- Dec 1, 2025Dec 1, 2025Invested in Black Forest Labs (Series B, $300M) Black Forest Labs
- Oct 24, 2025Oct 24, 2025Invested in Crusoe (Series E, $1.375B) Crusoe
- Sep 30, 2025Sep 30, 2025Follow-on: Invested in Vercel (Series F, $300M) Vercel
- Mar 3, 2025Mar 3, 2025Invested in Anthropic (Series E, $3.5B) TechCrunch
- Nov 23, 2021Nov 23, 2021Invested in Vercel (Series D, $150M) Vercel
- Jan 1, 2018Jan 1, 2018New fund: Salesforce Ventures Fund I ($100M) Value Add VC funds tracker
Funds
1| Fund | Vintage | Size | Strategy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce Ventures Fund I | 2018 | $100M | Flagship | As of 2018Value Add VC funds tracker |
Portfolio
16 totalRecent Investment Activity
13Track record: led 1 and participated in 12 of 13 tracked venture rounds · 10 in the last 12 months · led 1 Series B
| Date | Company | Event | Role | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2026 | Arena | Series B | Participated | $200M | $3.1B | Lightspeed Venture PartnersLeadunverifiedKhosla VenturesLeadunverifiedSalesforce Venturesunverified01 AdvisorsunverifiedDell Technologies CapitalunverifiedEndeavor CatalystunverifiedAndreessen HorowitzunverifiedFelicis Venturesunverified | TechCrunch |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Numeral | Series C | Participated | $100M | — | Insight PartnersLeadunverifiedSalesforce VenturesunverifiedGeodesic CapitalunverifiedBenchmarkunverifiedMayfield FundunverifiedY CombinatorunverifiedUncork CapitalunverifiedFCVC | Business Wire |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Emerald AI | Series A | Participated | $150M | $1.05 billion | Pulse story | |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Muon Space | Series C | Participated | $250M | $1.5B | Eclipse VenturesLeadSatNewsGoogleSatNewsSalesforce VenturesSatNewsWellington ManagementunverifiedI Squared CapitalunverifiedGalvanize Climate SolutionsunverifiedWoven Capitalunverified | Pulse story |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Upscale AI | Series A-1 (extension) | Participated | $190M | $2B | Fortune | |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Hark | Series A | Participated | $700M | — | Crunchbase News | |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Supabase | Series F | Participated | $500M | $10.5B | TechCrunch | |
| Apr 2026 | Emerald AI | Strategic | Participated | $25M | — | Energy Impact PartnersunverifiedNVenturesunverifiedLowercarbon CapitalunverifiedAmplounverifiedIn-Q-TelunverifiedRadical VenturesunverifiedSalesforce VenturesunverifiedEatonGE VernovaSamsung VenturesSiemens | esgtoday.com |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Black Forest Labs | Series B | Led | $300M | $3.25B | Salesforce VenturesLeadunverifiedAnjney Midha | Black Forest Labs |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Crusoe | Series E | Participated | $1.375B | $10B+ | Valor Equity PartnersLeadunverifiedMubadala CapitalLeadunverifiedFounders FundunverifiedNvidiaunverifiedAtreides ManagementunverifiedAltimeter CapitalunverifiedSalesforce VenturesunverifiedTiger Global Managementunverified | Crusoe |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Vercel | Series F | Participated | $300M | $9.3B | AccelLeadWikipediaGICLeadWikipediaBlackRockunverifiedStepStone GroupunverifiedKhosla VenturesunverifiedSchrodersunverifiedAdams Street PartnersunverifiedGeneral CatalystunverifiedGoogle Ventures (GV)unverifiedSalesforce VenturesunverifiedTiger Global Managementunverified | Vercel |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Anthropic | Series E | Participated | $3.5B | $61.5B | TechCrunch | |
| Nov 23, 2021 | Vercel | Series D | Participated | $150M | $2.5B | GGV CapitalLeadunverifiedAccelunverifiedBedrock CapitalunverifiedCRVunverifiedGeodesic CapitalunverifiedGreenoaksunverifiedGoogle Ventures (GV)unverified8VCunverifiedSalesforce VenturesunverifiedSV AngelunverifiedTiger Global ManagementunverifiedFlex CapitalLatacora | Vercel |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
8 · 50%
Developer tools
3 · 19%
Enterprise SaaS
2 · 13%
Consumer
1 · 6%
Space
1 · 6%
Robotics
1 · 6%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series B
2 · 15%
Series C
2 · 15%
Series A
2 · 15%
Series F
2 · 15%
Series E
2 · 15%
Series A-1 (extension)
1 · 8%
Strategic
1 · 8%
Series D
1 · 8%
Co-Investors
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Latest Pulse
- Oct 8, 2026Arena Nearly Doubles To $3.1B In 10 MonthsThe AI leaderboard startup raised a $200M Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla, nearly doubling its valuation from January as it pushes into AI-safety grading.→
- Sep 23, 2026Numeral Raises $100M To Automate Sales Tax With AINumeral raised a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners, its second large raise in about a year, taking total funding to $157.5 million as it expands its AI-driven sales-tax compliance platform for e-commerce and SaaS companies.→
- Sep 16, 2026Manufacturing AI Startup CADDi Reaches Unicorn StatusCADDi raised $114 million in a Series D round that values the Chicago- and Tokyo-based manufacturing data platform at $1.18 billion, officially making it a unicorn as it pushes further into North America.→
- Sep 11, 2026Mullenweg Retakes Automattic CEO Job In 48 HoursMatt Mullenweg told Automattic staff he's back in control as CEO, two days after the company's board voted to place him on paid leave and name CFO Mark Davies interim chief.→
- Sep 7, 2026Nvidia's $99B Bet on Its Own AI CustomersNvidia's equity stakes in AI companies hit $99 billion in July, up 14-fold in a year, and a growing share of those companies spend their new capital buying Nvidia chips.→
- Sep 4, 2026Salesforce Leads $166M Into HiBob at $3.2BThe HR platform crossed $400 million in annualized revenue before raising the largest round in its history, with Salesforce supplying most of the capital and Farallon returning.→
- Sep 3, 2026Upwind Triples Valuation to $3.8B Riding Wiz's ExitThe cloud-security startup raised $300 million led by Bessemer and TCV at a $3.8 billion valuation, tripling its price in roughly five months as rivals scramble to fill the gap Google's $32 billion Wiz acquisition left in independent cloud security.→
- Aug 28, 2026Emerald AI Hits $1.05B Making Data Centers Grid-FlexibleEmerald AI raised an oversubscribed $150 million Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC for software that throttles data center power in response to grid conditions.→
- Aug 28, 2026a16z Raises $1.1B to Build AI's Physical LayerAndreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1 billion Machine Age fund dedicated to chips, memory, cooling, power and robotics -- the hardware underneath AI rather than the software on top of it.→
- Aug 25, 2026Emerald AI Raises $150M Series A at $1.05B ValuationEmerald AI raised a $150 million Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation to scale its Conductor platform, which makes AI data centers responsive to electric-grid conditions, as it moves from pilots into commercial deployment.→
- Aug 24, 2026Hugging Face Reportedly in Talks to Sell for $13BHugging Face, the open-source AI model-hosting hub, is reportedly in acquisition talks at a $13 billion-plus price, nearly triple the $4.5 billion valuation it carried after its 2023 Salesforce Ventures-led round.→
- Aug 24, 2026Hugging Face Is Reportedly in Talks to Be Acquired for $13BHugging Face is reportedly working with banks to evaluate acquisition bids at a valuation of $13 billion or more, nearly triple the $4.5 billion mark it carried at its last funding round in 2023.→
- Aug 20, 2026Muon Space Raises $250M to Build 500 Satellites a YearSatellite maker Muon Space raised a $250M Series C at a $1.5B valuation led by Eclipse, with Google and Salesforce Ventures joining, to scale production toward 500 satellites a year by 2027.→
- Jul 30, 2026Antora Energy Closes $550M for Thermal BatteriesAntora Energy closed a $550 million Series C, one of the year's largest cleantech rounds, to scale thermal batteries that store electricity as heat for industrial and data-center customers.→
- Jul 3, 2026Crusoe in Talks to Raise $3B, Tripling Valuation to ~$30BAI data-center builder Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a round that would roughly triple its valuation to around $30 billion, as demand for specialized AI compute keeps outpacing supply.→
- Jul 2, 2026Crunchbase: The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds, Led by Joulent's $1.75B Energy RaiseCrunchbase News' roundup of the week's 10 biggest funding rounds (June 27-July 2) was led by Houston-based energy infrastructure provider Joulent's $1.75 billion raise from National Grid Ventures, aimed squarely at AI and compute-intensive industries' power needs. Together AI's $800M Series C and Venice AI's $65M unicorn round both placed inside the top 10, alongside biotech, legal-tech, sports and video-AI rounds spanning a genuinely broad set of categories beyond pure frontier-model AI.→
- Jun 30, 2026Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures8090, the AI-native 'software factory' co-founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya stepping down from the board to become full-time CEO the same week the round closed.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role8090 Labs, the enterprise AI-coding startup Chamath Palihapitiya founded in January 2024, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya stepping in as full-time CEO for the first time since leaving Facebook. The company's Software Factory product helps corporate engineering teams use AI to build production-grade software with the audit trails and controls large enterprises require, rather than the vibe-coded prototypes most AI coding tools produce.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures on June 29, with Chamath stepping into the CEO seat — his first full-time operating role since leaving Facebook. The company's Software Factory product helps corporate engineering teams ship production-quality software with AI agents rather than vibe-coded prototypes.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEOChamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Labs raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role -- his first full-time operating job since leaving Facebook -- to scale Software Factory, an AI coding platform built for regulated industries including healthcare, insurance, aerospace and government, TechCrunch reported June 29.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup Chamath Palihapitiya founded in early 2024, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures -- and Palihapitiya announced he will run it as CEO rather than just chairing the board. Its flagship product, Software Factory, aims to move corporate engineering teams from AI prototypes to production-grade applications with enterprise controls like audit trails.→
- Jun 5, 2026Supabase Raises $500M Series F at $10.5B as Vibe Coding Drives a Database ExplosionOpen-source backend platform Supabase raised a $500 million Series F at a $10.5 billion valuation led by GIC, doubling its value in eight months. The growth is being driven by AI coding tools -- databases deployed are up 600% year-over-year, with Claude Code now its single largest source of new instances and AI agents spinning up the majority of them.→
Salesforce Ventures FAQ
What companies has Salesforce Ventures invested in?
Salesforce Ventures' portfolio includes Emerald AI, Anthropic, Arena, Supabase, Numeral, Crusoe, and 10 more tracked companies.
Who does Salesforce Ventures co-invest with most?
In the rounds Value Add tracks, Salesforce Ventures most often invests alongside Nvidia (8 shared deals), SV Angel (6 shared deals), Coatue Management (5 shared deals), Felicis Ventures (5 shared deals), General Catalyst (4 shared deals).
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- Bloombergmajor outlet1 fact
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