There’s traditional VC. There’s corporate VC. And then there’s Salesforce Ventures 🚀 💸 $6B+ invested 🏢 630+ companies 📈 35+ IPOs 🤝 175+ M&As 🌎 32 countries Here's how we help the world's most enterprising founders achieve incredible results 🎬 https://t.co/pvIOnIt4xn

We’ve invested in @ForterraDrive 🙌 Forterra's delivering software-defined, interoperable autonomy for the DoD’s 400,000-vehicle fleet — already in use with the Marine Corps and Army. Cheers Josh Araujo, @scott_sanderssb, & the entire Forterra team 🤝 https://t.co/mN7jyWi4bn

We’re excited to back @basepowerco🔋 The grid can't keep up w/ AI power demand. Base delivers utility-scale capacity fast via proprietary batteries + software — stabilizing the grid and accelerating data center growth. Cheers @ZachBDell & @JLopas 🙌 https://t.co/uOl7PnTT7x

📸 Scenes from our CIO Dinner in London last night. We were thrilled to bring together 30 leaders from top European enterprises and AI startups for an evening of real connection and candid conversation. TY to everyone who attended 🙏

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$238M Series C— Accelerating the future of defense. From autonomy and edge compute to resilient communications, our platforms are redefining how modern operations connect and coordinate. This funding accelerates our work to deliver interoperable autonomy at scale with proven,

“For enterprise SaaS, ‘move fast and break things’ doesn’t work. The fastest way to win is to balance innovation and reliability.” We talked to @sreai_team CEO @rkadiyala2 about building AI-native DevOps and what it takes to scale in enterprise SaaS.

@AmyAHarder @axios @mikeallen @theinformation @anissagardizy8 Truly grateful to our amazing backers @lowercarbon @NVIDIA @radicalvcfund @amplovc @johndoerr @nationalgrid @SalesforceVC Trust Ventures @EarthshotVC Read @ClaudineEmeott and @enkitoto's amazing welcome to @EmeraldAI_ here:

We’re proud to back @EmeraldAi_ ⚡ As AI’s compute needs surge, power demand is becoming one of the biggest bottlenecks to innovation. Emerald’s Conductor platform lets data centers flex their power use in real time — supporting grid stability without sacrificing AI

Thanks @SalesforceVC for having us at #DF25! Our CEO and co-founder @ChaseLochmiller joined @VarunSivaram, @JLopas and @ClaudineEmeott for a session on AI energy, grids, and financing the next wave of intelligence. 🎥 Watch the full conversation:

I’m excited to announce that @CrusoeAI has closed our Series E round of financing valuing the company at $10.4B to help us build the infrastructure of intelligence. This round was led by our incredible partners at Valor Equity Partners and @MubadalaCapital. Solving the scaling

We’re thrilled to back @CrusoeAI, tackling one of AI’s biggest challenges: the energy bottleneck ⚡️ By securing stranded energy and building compute infrastructure around it, Crusoe is redefining sustainable AI infra. Cheers @ChaseLochmiller and team 🙌

"Really think about the market that you're entering into. They say ideas are cheap and execution is everything. But I actually think ideas are just as important as execution. What we choose to go and execute on matters a lot." – Russ d'Sa on his advice to entrepreneurs.

Highlights from another great convo I had last week at #DF25 with @Altana_AI CEO and Co-Founder Evan Smith 📽️

"My best piece of advice for entrepreneurs is that you have to be very tenacious. Don't give up. People will say 'no' a thousand times. If you have the inner belief that what you're doing is right, keep going." – Alon Arvatz, CEO, @PointFive_Inc

Aaaand that's a wrap on another great Dreamforce 🏁 And what a week it was — here's a quick rundown from a jam-packed #DF25: 🗣️ More than a dozen Salesforce Ventures portfolio leaders took center-stage at Dreamforce, including great sessions from @DarioAmodei, @vsiv, @JLopas,

#DF25 sponsor appreciation post 💗 More than a dozen @SalesforceVC portfolio companies participated in this year's Dreamforce as sponsors. I had the chance to visit the Campground and say hello to some of them. Thank you for your steadfast partnership and support in helping

It’s been a blast, @Dreamforce! 🚀 And a jam-packed week of events: ✨ Our CEO and Co-founder May Habib joined @ElevenLabsIO Co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski to discuss how Fortune 500 brands are building trusted, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to deliver real ROI. 🎥

Our final Salesforce Ventures portfolio session at #DF25 this year featured @Vercel CEO @rauchg and COO @jdewitt29 discussing their company's vision for the agentic web and software's next frontier. Some highlights from the talk: 🌐 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐛 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲

At #DF25's "Openness Fuels AI Democratization" panel, @percyliang, co-founder of @SalesforceVC portfolio company @togethercompute, shared his thoughts on why open source matters for the future of AI. One of my favorite takeaways: Today's open-source AI feels like a similar

.@SalesforceVC portfolio CEO Evan Smith (@Altana_AI) sat down this afternoon with Salesforce board member Amy Chang at #D25 for an engaging panel on how enterprises are navigating supply chain volatility 🚢 Some conversation highlights: 🛜 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬

Salesforce Ventures is now on track to fully deploy our $1B AI Fund by the end of 2025. From foundational model leaders to emerging innovators, we’re proud to partner with founders building secure, trustworthy AI that delivers real ROI. https://t.co/HVrz1MaiIZ