Salesforce

Quick read

Salesforce, enterprise SaaS company, founded February 1999, headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It's the world's leading CRM platform, now aggressively repositioning around AI with its Agentforce suite of autonomous agents. CEO Marc Benioff is betting that AI agents replace service and developer headcount while demand for salespeople grows.

Key facts

Founded

February 1999

Founders

Marc Benioff

Employees

83334

Sectors

saas, enterprise, ai

Website

www.salesforce.com

Mission

Salesforce builds cloud-based CRM and enterprise software that connects companies to their customers, increasingly delivered through AI agents (Agentforce) that automate sales, service, marketing, and commerce workflows.

Recent activity

• May 2026investment
  Salesforce Ventures holds ~1% of Anthropic, totaling $300 million across investment rounds from 2023 through 2025. Separately, Marc Benioff announced Salesforce will spend an additional $300 million on Anthropic API tokens in 2026. At Anthropic's February 2026 valuation, the equity stake was worth $3.8 billion; IPO rumors put Anthropic's valuation at $850 billion–$1 trillion as early as October 2026. linkedin.com
• May 2026press
  Salesforce reported strong ARR numbers for Agentforce in its latest earnings announcement, though a 2026 Salesforce Ben admin survey flagged low confidence among admins in Agentforce skills and limited actual AI project involvement — a potential adoption gap despite commercial momentum. linkedin.com
• May 2026investment
  Salesforce and ServiceNow each committed to a combined $1.5 billion in new investment in Genesys, backing the company's push into agentic AI for customer experience. linkedin.com
• May 2026product
  At TDX 2026, Salesforce announced Headless 360 — a major architectural shift making every platform component (data, logic, metadata) accessible via API, MCP tool, or CLI. The UI is now optional, positioning Salesforce for agent-operated deployments. linkedin.com
• Q1 2026press
  Salesforce was named among companies cutting tech jobs in Q1 2026, part of a wave of ~80,000 tech layoffs attributed by companies to AI-driven efficiency gains. linkedin.com
• Apr 2026leadership
  CEO Marc Benioff announced plans to hire 1,000 recent graduates to build out AI platforms, saying he won't add software developers or service agents in FY2026 due to AI agent productivity gains. fortune.com
• Apr 2026investment
  Salesforce Ventures co-invested in Mintlify's $45M Series B at a $500M valuation alongside Andreessen Horowitz. tracxn.com
• Feb 2026press
  Salesforce reported Q4 FY26 earnings and issued updated guidance. x.com
• Feb 2026product
  Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Momentum, a San Francisco startup designed to extend Agentforce 360 and Slack capabilities for enterprise sales teams. cio.com
• Feb 2026leadership
  Salesforce cut approximately 1,000 jobs as part of a restructuring aimed at redeploying headcount toward AI-driven product areas. cio.com
• Feb 2026product
  Salesforce ended new Heroku Enterprise contract sales, moving the platform to a sustaining engineering phase — a significant strategic pullback from its PaaS business. cio.com
• Feb 2026product
  Salesforce entered a definitive agreement to acquire Cimulate, an AI-driven product discovery and agentic commerce company, to strengthen the Agentforce Commerce suite. linkedin.com

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Marc Benioff · CEO & Founder
  Brief →
• Matt O'Neill · CTO
• Bret Taylor · Board Member / Former COO
• G. Mason Morfit · Board Member
• Amy Weaver · President & CFO
• Brian Millham · President & COO
• Srini Tallapragada · President & Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer
• Parker Harris · Co-founder
• Robin Washington · President & COO

Sources

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI won't kill entry-level jobs — Fortune
• Salesforce: Latest news and insights — CIO
• Salesforce Q4 FY26 earnings announcement — X
• Salesforce Ventures — Tracxn
• Salesforce News — LinkedIn
• Cimulate acquisition mention — LinkedIn
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pasipietarinen_salesforce-currently-owns-approximately-a-activity-7462966455085674499-QnJb?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmBRrcBI3IVbHriB0IQPXgm-xap_2wWkto
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peterchittum_salesforce-activity-7465681249769213953-QDLr?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmBRrcBI3IVbHriB0IQPXgm-xap_2wWkto
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyramskov/
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nimit-walia-75b97423_salesforce-tdx2026-headless360-activity-7459074919771955200-ZoIB?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmBRrcBI3IVbHriB0IQPXgm-xap_2wWkto
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7459516440501444610-z-88?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmBRrcBI3IVbHriB0IQPXgm-xap_2wWkto

Other companies in United States

• OpenAI · AI lab, San Francisco·
• Anthropic · AI safety lab, San Francisco·
• Stripe · Payments infrastructure, San Francisco·
• Microsoft · Big tech, Redmond·
• NVIDIA · AI hardware, Santa Clara·
• Databricks · Data + AI platform, San Francisco

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