Overview
Salesforce Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm founded in 2009[2]. Since its founding, the firm has invested in over 630 startups and deployed $6 billion or more in capital[1]. Its investment focus spans enterprise technology companies across seed through growth stages[1].
Leadership & org chart
8 alumniInvestments
Sixfold
Generative AI purpose-built for insurance underwriting
Astronomer
Unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow for data and AI pipelines
Bluefish
An agentic marketing platform that helps Fortune 500 brands monitor and optimize how they appear across AI channels
Manhattan (Flatiron District) headquartered AI marketing platform giving marketers visibility and influence over how brands appear across major AI channels.
- SASixfold AI
NYC insurtech founded in 2023 by Alex Schmelkin, Brian Moseley and Jane Tran, using AI to automate underwriting processes and support risk evaluation for insurers.
In the news
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/8/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/5/26 featuring funding details for Lyte AI, Crusoe, SciFin, and twenty-one other deals representing $4.6B in new funding that you need to know about.
AlleyWatch · Sep 8, 2026
- NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face in $12.93B Deal to Cement Open AI Infrastructure LeadershipAt $12.93 billion, NVIDIA's acquisition of Hugging Face is the largest VC-backed tech acquisition in New York City history - more than tripling the previous record. The deal hands NVIDIA control of the open-source model hub at the center of the AI economy, used by 18 million developers and over 200,000 companies worldwide.
- Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billionNvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
TechCrunch AI · Sep 3, 2026
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/31/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 8/29/26 featuring funding details for Liner, CivilGrid, Transfyr, and thirty-two other deals representing $2.0B in new funding that you need to know about.
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/24/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 8/22/26 featuring funding details for Palona AI, Rundoo, Also, and thirty other deals representing $3.9B in new funding that you need to know about.
Alumni 1 went on to found or lead
- PSarah CodraroHead of Marketing→Chief Marketing Officer at Emergence Capital
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