92% of companies plan to increase their AI investments in the next 3 years — but how many will implement AI effectively? . Our new AI Implementation Playbook offers a clear roadmap to turn insights➡️action. Ready to build for the AI age? Download now 🚀.

We launched Slack Fund in 2015 with a belief: Change isn’t risk — it’s opportunity. Today, that journey continues under a new name. We’re folding Slack Fund into SFVC to double down on backing AI founders from seed to scale 🚀. Read more by @jcspinell:

📸 Scenes from Salesforce Ventures Gives Back in Tokyo last week. Over 40 volunteers, including many Salesforce employees, came together to translate and label Japanese picture books for children in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and Afghanistan. Cheers to our entire Japan team 🙌

We have a new favorite team! 🏀 . Our SF team and an awesome assortment of portfolio companies got together to watch the Golden State Valkyries take on the Chicago Sky last week as a tipoff to our WNBA Summer Game Series on the West Coast 📸

@Pano_AI @TIME For more on @Pano_AI, read our recent interview with CEO Sonia Kastner:

🏆 HUGE congratulations to our portfolio company @Pano_AI for being named to @TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025!. We’re proud to back the Pano team as they build critical infrastructure for a more climate-resilient future 🚀.

“Values drive value” isn’t just our investment philosophy — it’s how our team operates 🤝. We recently spent the day beautifying the blacktop at Buena Vista Children's Center alongside @Playworks and our portco Front. Always a privilege to give back to our community 🙏

Every VC claims to "add value," but what are some of the ways founders actually want investors to show up for them? 🤔. Our portfolio CEOs shared their thoughts the best ways VCs can help their portfolio companies 📹

Is there a question you wish people would ask you, but they don't? 😥. Our portfolio CEOs shared their perspective on the types of questions they want to answer from other founders.

“We don’t move fast and break things — we move urgently, with trust.” . Fresh off their $44M fundraise, @Pano_AI CEO Sonia Kastner talked to us about how her team is scaling real-time wildfire detection using AI. 👉 Read our interview with Sonia:

How much of the AI hype should you buy into? 🤔 . Our portfolio founders shared their thoughts on what aspects of our current AI innovation cycle are overhyped . and underhyped 📹

RT @Get_Writer: 🚀 We’re thrilled to be named to @CNBC’s #Disruptor50 list! 🌟. At WRITER, we’re empowering enterprises to transform work wit….

🚀 Everyone is using AI in 2025 — but some are doing it better than others. Our own @willychu hosted product leaders from across the SFVC portfolio to discuss what works (and what doesn't) when adopting AI. In a new blog, he shares his key takeaways 👉.

How are founders really using AI in thier business🤔. Our portfolio CEOs share the areas of their business where they've found AI to be most impactful 🎥

📸 Last night we hosted leaders from across our network at Barclay Center to watch the @WNBA's New York Liberty vs. the Golden State Valkyries. TY to everyone who joined us for our first Summer Game Series event, and we look forward to hosting more folks for a game soon 🙏

In 2024, more than 118M people were directly served by companies in our Impact Fund portfolio 🚀. TY to all our founders driving meaningful social and environmental change across the globe 🙏. Learn more about our Impact Fund:

🔥 Hot takes from real builders. Our portfolio CEOs share their most controversial opinions around what it takes to build a successful business in 2025 🎥

"What's something you've changed your mind about since starting your company?" 🔄. Hear from the CEOs of @ThunderSF1, @uplimit_, @refundid, @REEJIG_ai, and Lantern on how their perspectives have changed since becoming a founder 👇

🚀Big news: our portco @convergence_ai_ is joining @salesforce! . From stealth to acquisition in under a year, their LMLM-powered agents are redefining what AI can do. Now they’ll help power Agentforce and the future of work. Huge congrats to the team 🎉.