Salesforce is a leading cloud-based software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. It offers a suite of applications designed to help businesses manage their sales, customer service, marketing, e-commerce, and analytics. The company's flagship Customer 360 platform integrates customer data from various systems and devices, providing a unified view that enhances decision-making and operational efficiency. Salesforce's offerings include Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing, and Commerce Cloud for e-commerce solutions, among others. Additionally, Salesforce Ventures, the company's investment arm, supports emerging enterprise software companies, providing them with funding, resources, and access to a vast network in the cloud ecosystem. Through its innovative solutions and strategic investments, Salesforce enables organizations to connect with their customers more effectively and drive business growth.
GM and Vice President, Media Cloud, Salesforce Industries
Suzanne DiBianca
EVP Corporate Relations and Chief Impact Officer
Paul Drews
Managing Director, Salesforce Ventures
Claudine Emeott
Senior Director, Impact Investing
Dan Farber
SVP Strategic Communications
Takuya Hosomura
Principal
Achyut Jajoo
SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive
Kenneth I. Juster
EVP, Law, Policy and Corporate Strategy
Nowi Kallen
Managing Director
Alex Kayyal
SVP and Managing Partner
David Kellenberger
Principal
Rohit Mahna
SVP and General Manager
Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments and M&A
Fatima Paruk MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Health Officer
Bill Patterson
EVP and GM, CRM Applications
Katie Schwartz
Principal, Salesforce Ventures
John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Jim Steele
President, Global Strategic Customers
Past deals in Early Venture Stage
College Possible
Grant in 2025
College Possible provides coaching, admission, and support to students from low-income backgrounds.
PointFive
Series A in 2024
PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions that fit smoothly into teams' normal operations.
Uplimit
Series A in 2024
Uplimit is an education technology company that aims to transform how professionals and organizations develop essential skills for the future. By leveraging an AI-powered platform, Uplimit offers innovative learning solutions tailored to the needs of the modern workforce. The platform provides live group courses focused on machine learning and data science, created and taught by industry experts. This approach enables both employees and students to enhance their professional skills while learning alongside peers in a supportive community. Uplimit's emphasis on scalable skill development ensures that individuals and organizations can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing professional landscape.
Zeck
Series A in 2024
Zeck is a developer of a board management platform that enhances board engagement and automates governance processes. The platform offers customizable frameworks for organizing meetings and includes tools for auto-generating and approving meeting minutes, facilitating secure voting, and signing documents. By providing these features, Zeck aims to streamline board governance and improve compliance for businesses. In addition to its core functionalities, the application incorporates communication features specifically designed for meetings, further supporting effective collaboration among board members.
Together AI
Series A in 2024
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. The company contributes cutting-edge open-source research, models, and datasets to push the boundaries of AI forward. Through its decentralized cloud services, developers and researchers at organizations of various scales are empowered to train, refine, and deploy generative AI models.
Fabric
Series A in 2024
Fabric is a health tech company that enables healthcare providers to deliver faster, higher quality, and more accessible care while reducing costs via consumer-grade patient experiences that automate workflows for staff.
Oleria
Series A in 2024
Oleria is a company focused on transforming the identity security landscape through its advanced security platform. It provides autonomous security services that enable enterprises to conduct continuous access reviews and remediation. By offering real-time visibility and contextual access to sensitive data, Oleria helps organizations proactively identify and mitigate access-related risks, thereby preventing potential breaches and protecting digital assets. The company's innovative approach addresses the increasing complexities in access management and identity security faced by businesses today.
Mistral AI
Series A in 2023
Mistral AI is a company focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions, particularly in the realm of open-source models. It specializes in creating customizable and compute-efficient large language models that facilitate a range of applications, including natural language processing and complex problem-solving. Mistral AI aims to foster safe artificial general intelligence that benefits all users, allowing businesses and organizations to harness AI technology without the burden of building and maintaining their own models. Through a community-driven development approach, Mistral AI seeks to enhance efficiency, innovation, and decision-making for its clients.
Cerby
Series A in 2023
Cerby, Inc., founded in 2020 and based in Alameda, California, specializes in cybersecurity tools that address the challenges of managing disconnected applications. The company offers a comprehensive access management platform that automates security tasks by leveraging identity providers, thereby eliminating the need for manual tools and compensating controls like enterprise password managers. Cerby's patent-pending access orchestration engine facilitates passwordless authentication for applications that do not support standard protocols such as SSO, SAML, or SCIM. By automating processes such as offboarding and two-factor authentication enrollment, Cerby enhances visibility and control for identity and access management professionals, ultimately reducing risks and costs while increasing organizational productivity.
Thunder
Series A in 2023
Thunder is a management consulting company focused on delivering business value through intelligent frameworks and solutions. The company assists leading brands in addressing complex challenges primarily using Salesforce. In addition to its consulting services, Thunder operates an online data analysis platform that transforms data into impactful business outcomes. This platform includes a service cloud for customer support and marketing clouds for digital marketing campaigns, empowering users to leverage data analysis for a competitive edge.
Protect AI
Series A in 2023
Protect AI is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding machine learning and artificial intelligence systems from security threats. The company offers a platform that adheres to zero trust principles, ensuring that only secure and compliant AI models are utilized. Its technology continuously scans both third-party and in-house models for potential security vulnerabilities before deployment. Additionally, Protect AI provides detailed profiles of various threat categories, enabling organizations to enhance their security posture. With its comprehensive AI Security Posture Management capabilities, the company delivers end-to-end visibility and control, helping organizations maintain the integrity and safety of their AI applications throughout the machine learning lifecycle.
RightRev
Series A in 2023
RightRev provides an automated revenue recognition solution that helps businesses manage financial reporting in compliance with current accounting standards. The platform integrates seamlessly with sales operations and revenue accounting processes, facilitating accurate tracking of revenue across various models, including subscriptions, one-time sales, and services. By enhancing existing customer relationship management and configure, price, quote tools, RightRev's solution offers a comprehensive approach to revenue reporting, ensuring transparency and reducing the risk of financial misstatements. The platform is designed to support finance professionals in navigating complex revenue accounting requirements, such as those outlined in ASC 606 and IFRS 15.
Pano
Series A in 2023
Pano specializes in providing advanced hardware and software solutions designed to help fire professionals detect and mitigate wildfire threats. The company offers a unified platform that integrates cutting-edge hardware, artificial intelligence, and software to enable real-time monitoring and threat detection. By utilizing proprietary mountaintop camera feeds and satellite imagery, Pano's technology allows government agencies, utilities, insurers, and private landowners to quickly identify potential wildfire risks. This capability facilitates the rapid dissemination of critical information, empowering stakeholders to take timely actions to protect lives, property, and the environment from the dangers posed by wildfires.
Logik.io
Series A in 2023
Logik.io is a developer of a commerce logic engine platform that specializes in high-performance headless configuration technologies. Its platform is designed to overcome the operational limitations of traditional configurators, effectively streamlining complex selling processes. This technology supports omnichannel e-commerce sales for enterprise businesses, allowing them to integrate configuration and guided selling features into their existing eCommerce platforms. Logik.io focuses on enhancing both B2C and B2B selling experiences, making it easier for companies to manage intricate product configurations and improve overall sales efficiency.
NetBox Labs
Series A in 2023
NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
Series A in 2023
Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work. Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it is now the world's largest global database of human motivations. In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks!
Faros AI
Series A in 2023
Faros AI connects the dots between your engineering data sources – ticketing, source control, CI/CD, and more – giving unprecedented visibility and insight into your engineering processes.
Next Chapter
Grant in 2022
Next Chapter transforms the technology sector by creating long-term employment opportunities for ex-offenders. Next Chapter is located in San Francisco, California.
Pagaleve
Series A in 2022
Pagaleve specializes in providing a payment platform that enables consumers to make purchases in installments without interest and without the need for a credit card. By offering this flexible payment method, Pagaleve aims to assist merchants in boosting their sales through a straightforward and efficient process. Additionally, the service empowers consumers to acquire desired products without the burden of high credit card interest rates, making it an attractive alternative for both buyers and sellers. Through its innovative approach, Pagaleve addresses the needs of modern consumers while enhancing the sales capabilities of merchants.
Knowledge Work
Series A in 2022
Knowledge Work is an IT firm focused on the development and sales of software designed to enhance workplace efficiency for companies. The firm specializes in creating solutions that optimize back-office operations, management processes, and overall work experiences. By facilitating the sharing and utilization of in-house knowledge, Knowledge Work enables organizations to improve their operational effectiveness, ultimately supporting better decision-making and productivity.
Laminar
Series A in 2022
Laminar's Cloud Data Security Platform protects data for everything you build and run in the cloud. The platform discovers and classifies datastores for complete visibility, prioritizes risk based on sensitivity and data risk posture, secures data by remediating weak controls, and actively monitors for anomalies. The multi-cloud architecture takes an API-only approach, without agents, and without sensitive data leaving your environment. Founded in 2020 by a brilliant team of award winning Israeli red team experts, Laminar is proudly backed by Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures, TLV Partners, and SentinelOne. More Information: https://laminarsecurity.com/.
Primer
Venture Round in 2022
Primer is a company that provides audience automation, Linkedln automation, and marketing and sales automation. Primer Serve ads only to pre-qualified leads from CRM, boosts ad budget efficiency and conversion rates, and extends reach with nearly identical audiences in FB, Google, and LinkedIn.
NFWF
Grant in 2022
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), established in 1984, is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It collaborates with various public and private sectors to protect and restore the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats. NFWF emphasizes sustainability and aims to create a positive environmental legacy for future generations through strategic partnerships and funding initiatives. By leveraging resources and expertise from diverse stakeholders, the foundation works to enhance conservation efforts and ensure the health of ecosystems across the country.
World Resources Institute
Grant in 2022
World Research Institute is a global research organization that is focused on protecting the Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Its duties include protecting communities and natural ecosystems from damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and generating opportunities for people by catalyzing a global transition to a low-carbon economy; driving the scale-up of clean, affordable power systems throughout the world to deliver sustainable socio-economic development; ensuring the world’s food systems reduce their impact on the environment, drive economic opportunity, and sustainably feed 9.6 billion people by 2050; alleviating poverty, enhance food security, conserve biodiversity, and mitigating climate change by reducing forest loss and restoring productivity to degraded, deforested lands; achieving a water-secure future by mapping, measuring, and mitigating global water risks; and improving the quality of life in cities by developing and scaling environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable urban and transport solutions. World Research Institute spans across more than 50 countries and constitutes of an employee base of 450 experts and staff. The organization is based in Washington, D.C., United States.
Wetlands International
Grant in 2022
Wetlands International is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands.
Arbor Day Foundation
Grant in 2022
This is the mission statement of the Arbor Day Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit conservation and education organization. Founded in 1972, the centennial of the first Arbor Day observance in the 19th century, the Foundation has grown to become the largest nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees, with over one million members, supporters, and valued partners. The impact we make on our world is accomplished through our conservation and education programs.
Fundación Natura
Grant in 2022
Fundación Natura develops projects for ecological conservation and the protection of the environment.
Save The Bay
Grant in 2022
Save The Bay is a nonprofit organization that focuses on environmental consulting services.
Nature Conservancy
Grant in 2022
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental non-governmental organization founded in 1951 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Its mission is to conserve lands and waters in order to promote a sustainable future for both people and nature. The organization employs a diverse team of over 600 scientists and collaborates with a wide array of partners, including individuals, governments, local nonprofits, and corporations. The Nature Conservancy employs a non-confrontational and collaborative approach to achieve its conservation goals, working in all 50 U.S. states and more than 35 countries worldwide.
Conservation International Ventures
Grant in 2022
Conservation International Ventures LLC is an impact investment firm based in Arlington, Texas, established in 2018 as the investment arm of Conservation International. The organization is dedicated to fostering responsible and sustainable management of global biodiversity for the benefit of humanity. Through collaboration with governments, industries, and community leaders, it seeks to create a harmonious balance between human needs and environmental conservation. Conservation International Ventures operates with a commitment to financial accountability and transparency, emphasizing values such as passion, respect, integrity, optimism, courage, and teamwork to guide its efforts in promoting a healthy planet for current and future generations.
The Ocean Foundation
Grant in 2022
Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world.
American Forests
Grant in 2022
American Forests offers services to restore threatened forest ecosystems and inspire people to value and protect urban and wildland forests. Their projects have restored hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat, protected vital watersheds, and sequestered millions of tons of greenhouse gases. They are advocates for expanding urban tree canopy and green space, and a key funder of urban forest initiatives that have transformed communities across the country.
Restor
Grant in 2022
Restor offers a platform that gives access to ecological insights, shares ecological information and monitors data from restoration sites.
One Tree Planted
Grant in 2022
One Tree Planted is a non-profit organization that focuses on global reforestation by planting one tree for every dollar donated worldwide.
Hubble
Series A in 2022
Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents
Sylvera
Series A in 2022
Sylvera is a carbon data provider based in London, United Kingdom, focused on promoting effective climate action. The company has developed machine learning-based tools that monitor the performance of carbon offset projects, allowing for tracking at intervals as frequent as weekly. These tools are designed to integrate seamlessly into both internal and external reporting frameworks, enabling businesses and governments to manage reputational risks while also enhancing transparency in carbon data for their customers. By providing detailed insights into the effectiveness of carbon offsets, Sylvera supports organizations in their efforts to make informed decisions about sustainability and climate initiatives.
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Grant in 2022
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools' transformation of schools is fundamentally about changing, building, and strengthening systems and building the capacity of adults surrounding students. The firm focuses on building school leaders, teachers, families, and community partners.
Slang
Series A in 2021
Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers proficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.
Mews
Venture Round in 2021
Mews is a cloud-based hotel property management system designed to streamline hotel operations and enhance guest experiences. Founded by former hoteliers, Mews provides a next-generation hospitality platform suitable for hotels, hostels, and apartments. Its innovative features include smart automation for online check-ins, payment processing, booking management, and staff training, allowing property owners to improve both operational efficiency and guest satisfaction. Serving over 5,000 properties across more than 85 countries, Mews stands out for its extensive range of integrations with various hospitality technology providers, making it a comprehensive solution in the industry. In recognition of its capabilities, Mews was awarded Best Property Management System at the 2024 HotelTechAwards.
Calixa
Series A in 2021
Calixa is a developer of a customer management platform that consolidates customer data and tools into a single, user-friendly product. The platform integrates with various third-party services, such as Stripe, Zendesk, Intercom, and Sendgrid, allowing teams to access and manage all customer-related information in one interface. By replacing a fragmented collection of tools and processes, Calixa streamlines customer management tasks, enabling users to understand their customers better, track segments, automate alerts, and take immediate action. This comprehensive solution aims to enhance efficiency and improve customer interactions for businesses.
Ovice
Series A in 2021
oVice, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that creates a virtual office platform designed to enhance remote communication through voice chat. Established in 2020, oVice allows users to connect and collaborate in a lifelike online environment, where they can move, talk, and interact as avatars. The platform features customizable layouts, lockable rooms, and the ability to place static objects, making it suitable for various purposes, including remote offices, events, and academic conferences. By focusing on natural interactions, oVice enables clearer voice communication based on proximity, facilitating seamless networking without the need to switch rooms. The concept was developed by founder Sae Hyung Jung in response to the challenges of maintaining team cohesion during the COVID pandemic.
Ureeka
Series A in 2021
Ureeka, Inc. operates an online platform aimed at supporting small and medium businesses (SMBs) by providing mentorship and guidance. Founded in 2018 and based in Hillsborough, California, Ureeka connects entrepreneurs with mentors, coaches, specialists, partners, and investors to facilitate business growth. The platform seeks to democratize economic opportunities, particularly for underrepresented SMBs, by fostering a collaborative community and sharing best practices. Ureeka also offers tools that assess a business's website and marketing strategies, identifying opportunities for customer expansion. Additionally, it provides access to educational resources and connections necessary for building sustainable businesses, ultimately enabling entrepreneurs to scale their operations and generate wealth for themselves and their communities.
Autify
Series A in 2021
Autify, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven software testing automation. Its flagship product, Autify No Code, enables users to create automated end-to-end tests for applications without requiring programming skills. The platform is designed to address the challenges of automation testing by monitoring user interface changes and automatically updating affected test scenarios with each software release. Additionally, Autify has introduced Zenes, an AI tool that simplifies the creation of software tests by allowing users to interact with an AI agent to generate tests based on product documentation. The platform also offers features such as cross-browser testing, email testing, local replay, service integration, and parallel execution, which help quality assurance teams enhance productivity and accuracy while expediting the delivery of high-quality software.
Hashnode
Series A in 2021
Hashnode is a free content creation platform and community that allows you to publish articles on your own domain and helps you stay connected with a growing developer community. This gives you a huge advantage: Google and other search engines send traffic directly to your domain, and Hashnode community members discover your articles on their feed.
Youreka Labs
Series A in 2021
Youreka is a technology company that addresses the skills gap through its proprietary no-code mobile platform. Its Salesforce-native application is designed to simplify the creation and management of smart mobile forms and procedures at scale. Youreka develops robotic smart mobile assistants that aid frontline workers in various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, energy and utilities, and the public sector. By facilitating knowledge-sharing, offsite assistance, analysis, and feedback, Youreka helps organizations enhance productivity and streamline operations, ultimately enabling clients to perform their jobs more safely and effectively.
Overflow
Series A in 2021
Overflow is an online donation platform that helps charities accept online donations of publicly-traded stock. Overflow automates the transfer of publicly-traded stocks from donors to nonprofit organizations.
Zencity
Venture Round in 2021
Zencity is a government technology company that provides a community engagement platform designed to assist local governments in making informed decisions based on resident feedback. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv, Zencity serves over 300 government agencies, including those in major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. The platform enables governments to gather and analyze millions of feedback points from various online and offline channels with minimal integration and overhead. By employing advanced AI and machine learning, Zencity transforms this data into reliable insights that help local leaders prioritize resources, track performance, and strengthen their connection with the community.
TRM Labs
Series A in 2021
TRM Labs Inc. is a blockchain intelligence company that provides a token relationship management platform designed to assist financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and government agencies in identifying and investigating financial crime and fraud related to digital assets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company leverages machine learning to facilitate on-chain anti-money laundering compliance, incorporating solutions for customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and relationship management. TRM Labs aims to enhance compliance within the cryptocurrency industry by developing tools that automatically detect suspicious activities, such as money laundering and market manipulation. The company has garnered significant investment from major financial institutions and is supported by a team of experts with backgrounds in law enforcement and top technology firms. TRM Labs operates as a remote-first organization with additional hubs in Washington, DC, and London.
Circulor
Series A in 2021
Circulor Ltd. is a company that specializes in developing a blockchain-based traceability platform for industrial supply chains. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Dublin, Circulor serves a diverse clientele, including car manufacturers, electric vehicle battery producers, commodity traders, and miners. The company's innovative technology leverages blockchain and artificial intelligence to enhance the traceability and due diligence of raw materials, helping businesses manage their supply chains more effectively. By enabling the tracking of materials, emissions, and compliance from source to consumption, Circulor allows its customers to secure deliveries, manage payments, and verify the provenance of their raw materials, thereby supporting their sustainability objectives and responsible sourcing initiatives.
EmployIndy
Grant in 2021
EmployIndy, the Workforce Investment Board for Marion County, Indiana, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and operator of the one-stop system in Marion County. Since 1983, EmployIndy has administered hundreds of millions of dollars in federal, state, local, and private funds to support workforce development initiatives for diverse populations. Securing over 20 government and private grants in recent years to augment its one-stop services, EmployIndy has an annual budget of more than $17 million. It successfully provides fiscal management, monitoring, data collection, and reporting for all funding sources; oversees contracts with more than 30 providers who deliver services to approximately 550 businesses and 2,500 people annually; and assists more than 40,000 Indianapolis residents each year through its network of one-stop centers and special initiatives.
Databook
Series A in 2021
Databook is a leading provider of a customer intelligence platform aimed at enhancing enterprise sales performance. The platform integrates licensed datasets, patented algorithms, and deep domain expertise to assist sales teams in aligning their solutions with buyer pain points. By offering customized recommendations, Databook enables users to prioritize accounts with the highest likelihood of conversion and identify key buyers to engage. The platform also delivers tailored content that helps clients align with their customers' perspectives and strategic goals, facilitating easier market penetration. Prominent sales teams from major companies leverage Databook to achieve significantly larger deal sizes and accelerate their sales cycles.
Class Technologies
Series A in 2021
Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student.
ixlayer
Series A in 2021
ixlayer is a prominent player in the health-tech sector, specializing in virtual health testing solutions for health systems, payors, biopharma, and health-focused organizations. Founded in 2018, the company provides a comprehensive platform that addresses the technical, security, regulatory, and user experience aspects of complex health testing. As the healthcare landscape increasingly embraces remote care, ixlayer enhances patient engagement and supports preventative health strategies through scalable virtual testing options. The platform can be integrated into existing patient engagement systems and portals, facilitating real-time health and wellness lab testing. ixlayer currently serves millions of patients and has successfully launched numerous testing programs for major organizations, health systems, and government entities.
Candidly
Series A in 2021
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. It offers individuals and families through every step of the planning, borrowing, and repayment experience.
BlocPower
Series A in 2021
BlocPower is an energy technology startup based in Los Angeles, California, focused on creating healthier, greener, and smarter buildings. Founded in 2014 in Brooklyn, New York, by Donnel Baird and Morris Cox, the company specializes in retrofitting urban buildings with advanced energy efficiency technologies and green heating and cooling systems. BlocPower identifies energy-wasting buildings and utilizes a proprietary machine learning platform to determine the most effective retrofits for maximizing energy savings. The company connects various stakeholders, including government agencies, utilities, building owners, and equipment providers, to facilitate these upgrades. With a mission to serve financially underserved communities, BlocPower has completed projects in nearly 1,000 buildings, helping customers save 20–40% on their annual energy bills. By leveraging data and innovative financing, BlocPower aims to reduce carbon emissions and improve health outcomes while addressing the climate crisis.
Rheaply
Series A in 2021
Rheaply, Inc. is a Chicago-based company founded in 2016 that offers an online platform known as the Asset Exchange Manager (AxM). This cloud-based resource exchange technology connects organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, school systems, and nonprofits, allowing them to buy, sell, trade, donate, and rent resources. By combining an asset management system with an online marketplace, Rheaply facilitates effective exchanges of materials and resources, thereby improving reuse outcomes and supporting the principles of a circular economy. The platform aims to reduce waste and unnecessary expenditures, promoting sustainability across various sectors.
Flockjay
Series A in 2021
Flockjay, Inc. is an online sales academy based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing hands-on training for aspiring sales professionals, focusing on both inbound and outbound sales techniques. Their curriculum includes lead qualification, time management, discovery calls, and multi-channel outreach, as well as practical skills like crafting persuasive emails and handling objections. Flockjay also offers modern sales tools training and additional services such as resume workshops, interview coaching, and networking opportunities. Committed to promoting diversity and accessibility in the tech industry, Flockjay connects job seekers from underrepresented communities with high-paying job opportunities at leading companies, ensuring they receive final round interviews. Through its remote learning platform, Flockjay aims to empower individuals to achieve upward mobility in the tech sector.
Xbit
Series A in 2020
Xbit provides a shift management system that assists shop owners in optimizing their business processes. The company's platform includes a chatbot service that enables users to gather employee availability and create efficient shift schedules. By addressing customer needs and implementing effective solutions, Xbit helps clients reduce operational costs while maintaining service quality through proper personnel allocation.
Crehana
Series A in 2020
Crehana is an online training platform based in Lima, Peru, that caters to creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, it offers over 500 courses covering diverse subjects such as design, coding, digital marketing, leadership, and soft skill development. The platform emphasizes affordable, project-based learning to facilitate skill acquisition and professional growth. Crehana aims to address the skills gap in the region by providing accessible education and training solutions for both individuals and companies, helping to fulfill professional aspirations through innovative online courses.
Salto
Series A in 2020
Salto is the leading solution for business application configuration. By adapting and applying software development concepts and best practices to the business operations world, Salto provides an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product that re-imagines multi-application configuration in the modern company. Salto's solution automatically extracts the configurations of different business applications - including Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot - and translates them to a new declarative representation called NaCl (“Not Another Configuration Language”). Using NaCl with Git, all applications’ configurations can be collaboratively edited and deployed back to the live business applications, or to a staging environment for testing. With Salto, configuration changes to multiple business applications can be easily tested, tracked or even rolled back if needed. Salto was founded in 2019 by veteran Israeli entrepreneurs Rami Tamir, Benny Schnaider and Gil Hoffer and is their latest startup, after successes with previous companies - Pentacom (acquired by Cisco), Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat) and Ravello Systems (acquired by Oracle). It is backed by leading investors such as Bessmer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures and has offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco.
Qatalog
Series A in 2020
Qatalog Ltd is a London-based company that develops a virtual workspace designed to streamline operations by integrating various software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools. Founded in 2019, Qatalog's platform enables users to efficiently access information about individuals, teams, and projects within their organization. It allows for comprehensive document and message searches across multiple tools from a single interface, facilitates asynchronous updates on relevant projects, and supports the creation, assignment, and tracking of team and company processes. Additionally, the platform helps organizations set, monitor, and cascade goals effectively. By connecting various collaboration tools such as wikis and project management software, Qatalog aims to enhance team synchronization and reduce workplace disruptions, positioning itself as a modern solution for today's work environment.
BlocPower
Venture Round in 2020
BlocPower is an energy technology startup based in Los Angeles, California, focused on creating healthier, greener, and smarter buildings. Founded in 2014 in Brooklyn, New York, by Donnel Baird and Morris Cox, the company specializes in retrofitting urban buildings with advanced energy efficiency technologies and green heating and cooling systems. BlocPower identifies energy-wasting buildings and utilizes a proprietary machine learning platform to determine the most effective retrofits for maximizing energy savings. The company connects various stakeholders, including government agencies, utilities, building owners, and equipment providers, to facilitate these upgrades. With a mission to serve financially underserved communities, BlocPower has completed projects in nearly 1,000 buildings, helping customers save 20–40% on their annual energy bills. By leveraging data and innovative financing, BlocPower aims to reduce carbon emissions and improve health outcomes while addressing the climate crisis.
Elevate Security
Series A in 2020
Elevate Security, Inc. is a provider of a human risk management platform designed to enhance organizational security by addressing human behavior in relation to security threats. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Quebec, Canada, the company focuses on identifying employees at risk of causing security breaches, such as ransomware or data loss. Its platform integrates various data sources to assess and track security behaviors, offering interactive learning experiences to employees when risky behaviors are detected. This approach not only educates individuals about the consequences of their actions but also measures behavioral changes over time. By delivering tailored security insights and automating risk management processes, Elevate Security enables enterprises to better safeguard their operations and support growth initiatives.
Xbit
Venture Round in 2020
Xbit provides a shift management system that assists shop owners in optimizing their business processes. The company's platform includes a chatbot service that enables users to gather employee availability and create efficient shift schedules. By addressing customer needs and implementing effective solutions, Xbit helps clients reduce operational costs while maintaining service quality through proper personnel allocation.
Qualified
Series A in 2020
Qualified is the pipeline generation platform for revenue teams that utilize Salesforce to expand their pipeline. They do this by using their most valuable sales and marketing resource, the corporate website, to find the most valuable buyers, find buyer intent signals, and initiate sales talk right away. In order to detect account-based buyer intent and enable real-time sales discussions, Qualified, which is based on Salesforce, links the website with Salesforce data.
Hopin
Series A in 2020
Hopin Ltd is an online events platform that facilitates the creation and hosting of engaging virtual events, enabling users to connect globally. Founded in 2019 and based in London, the platform supports a wide range of events, including networking sessions, conferences, webinars, workshops, and exhibitions. It allows organizers to create interactive experiences where attendees can engage in one-on-one networking, participate in group discussions, view keynote presentations, and explore expo areas. Hopin's versatile platform caters to various needs, from corporate training workshops to large-scale international conferences, making it a valuable tool for brands and communities seeking to foster connections and engagement in a virtual format.
Ureeka
Venture Round in 2020
Ureeka, Inc. operates an online platform aimed at supporting small and medium businesses (SMBs) by providing mentorship and guidance. Founded in 2018 and based in Hillsborough, California, Ureeka connects entrepreneurs with mentors, coaches, specialists, partners, and investors to facilitate business growth. The platform seeks to democratize economic opportunities, particularly for underrepresented SMBs, by fostering a collaborative community and sharing best practices. Ureeka also offers tools that assess a business's website and marketing strategies, identifying opportunities for customer expansion. Additionally, it provides access to educational resources and connections necessary for building sustainable businesses, ultimately enabling entrepreneurs to scale their operations and generate wealth for themselves and their communities.
i2max
Series A in 2020
i2max specializes in cloud consulting services, offering a comprehensive platform that supports various aspects of business operations. The company provides tools for sales management, marketing management, service management, pipeline management, customer management, and customer experience management. By utilizing these advanced cloud services, i2max aims to enhance efficiency and promote business growth for its clients. Through its focus on cloud marketing and community engagement, i2max helps organizations navigate the complexities of the cloud landscape, ultimately enabling them to achieve their strategic objectives.
Mainstay
Series A in 2020
Mainstay is a developer of a chatbot platform that boosts enrollment, persistence, and completion at hundreds of colleges and universities. The company uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to facilitate the path to and through college. Specifically, Mainstay developed Oli, a chatbot that combines AI with human experts to provide free college guidance to all students. For their college partners, it eliminates repetitive tasks, helps colleges meaningfully engage students at scale, and provides deep insights into their pipeline of prospects.
Airkit
Series A in 2020
Airkit, Inc. is a digital customer engagement platform that enables organizations to create and manage customer experiences efficiently. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Airkit's low-code platform allows sales, service, and operations teams to design customer journeys with ease. It provides prebuilt components and templates for web, mobile, voice, and chat interactions, facilitating the integration of customer data across various systems. The platform features tools for scheduling, information capture, location-aware workflows, and digital payment processing, all aimed at enhancing customer satisfaction and operational productivity. Additionally, Airkit offers built-in analytics to measure user engagement and optimize experiences, along with debugging tools for developers to test and refine applications before deployment.
AllCloud
Venture Round in 2019
AllCloud is a cloud solutions provider based in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel, established in 2008. The company specializes in cloud stack, infrastructure, platform, and Software-as-a-Service, focusing on enabling organizations to maximize the value of cloud technology. It offers comprehensive support throughout the cloud lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, integration, and management services. By leveraging a strong ecosystem of technology partners and proven methodologies, AllCloud assists clients in transforming their operations through effective integration of Salesforce and AWS. The company is dedicated to guiding customers through their cloud journey, ultimately accelerating their growth and optimizing their cloud environments.
Sama
Series A in 2019
Sama is a data annotation company that specializes in providing image, video, and sensor data validation for machine learning applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates additional locations in New York, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Kenya, Uganda, and Singapore. Sama's platform supports various industries, including transportation, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture, by delivering high-quality training data that enhances the development of accurate machine learning models. The company's offerings include automated annotation techniques such as bounding boxes, semantic segmentation, and video object training, which streamline the data preparation process. By partnering with leading organizations, Sama aims to advance AI capabilities while creating opportunities for low-income individuals through the digital economy.
Threekit
Series A in 2019
ThreeKit Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in a three-dimensional (3D) product configuration and visualization platform. Founded in 2005, ThreeKit enables brands to create, manage, and scale high-quality visual content that enhances online customer engagement and drives conversions. The platform offers a variety of solutions, including interactive 3D configurations, photorealistic 2D images, augmented and virtual reality experiences, and a visual configuration tool that allows consumers to customize products in real-time. Additionally, ThreeKit provides digital asset management capabilities to streamline control over digital content. Its flagship product, Virtual Photographer, generates realistic-looking product images for e-commerce through computer rendering. By allowing businesses to efficiently produce thousands of interactive visuals, ThreeKit supports companies of all sizes in enhancing their visual commerce strategies across multiple channels.
Minit
Series A in 2019
Minit is a technology company specializing in process intelligence that empowers managers, analysts, and consultants to make informed, data-driven decisions. Its innovative software automates the analysis of business processes, offering features such as process discovery, mapping, and identification of improvement opportunities. By detecting bottlenecks and conducting thorough financial analyses, Minit enables organizations to enhance their operational efficiency, leading to potential improvements of up to 30%. The company's solutions cater to a diverse range of industries and have garnered recognition, including the BPM Next Innovation Award and the title of Slovak IT Product of the Year. As a spinoff from GRADIENT ECM, Minit aims to transform complex processes into transparent systems that provide actionable insights, helping companies discover new productivity-enhancing strategies and cost-saving opportunities. With a growing client base primarily in Europe and expanding globally, Minit is well-positioned in the rapidly evolving field of process mining.
nCino
Venture Round in 2019
NCino offers a cloud-based bank operating system created by bankers for bankers. The system helps increase profitability, productivity gains, regulatory compliance, and operational transparency at all organizational levels as well as across all lines of business. Following a process structure similar to a bank’s loan accounting system, the bank operating system offers combined services through its business process management, loan lifecycle, business intelligence, and document management solutions.
Crossbeam
Series A in 2019
Crossbeam, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides a collaborative data platform designed to facilitate partnerships between businesses. Founded in 2018 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crossbeam helps companies identify overlapping customers and prospects with their partners through its platform. This enables users to connect their data, create defined populations, and analyze shared insights effectively. With over 19,000 companies utilizing its services, Crossbeam is recognized as a leader in Ecosystem-Led Growth, helping businesses enhance customer relationships and improve their sales and product development processes. The platform ensures that users have access to the latest customer and prospect data while establishing secure data-sharing agreements, ultimately driving growth and measurable results.
Enterprise for Youth
Grant in 2019
Enterprise for Youth is to empower young people to prepare for and discover career opportunities. Through Enterprise, youth cultivate their individual interests and potential through training, guidance, and employment experiences in supportive and diverse environments.
Futures and Options
Grant in 2019
Futures and Options provides transformative career development opportunities to young people to succeed in college and inspiring them to pursue meaningful careers. They provide paid, mentored internships, and career readiness workshops to high school juniors and seniors.
Genesys Works
Grant in 2019
Genesys Works provides pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities through skills training, meaningful work experiences, and impactful relationships. Our program consists of 8 weeks of technical and professional skills training, a paid year-long corporate internship, college and career coaching, and alumni support to and through college. Our goal is to move more students out of poverty and into professional careers, creating a more productive and diverse workforce in the process.
Year Up
Grant in 2019
Year Up is an organization focused on closing the Opportunity Divide for urban young adults by equipping them with essential skills and practical experience. It offers tuition-free, skills-based training programs that prepare participants for professional careers or higher education. Through partnerships with various companies, Year Up provides internships that allow young adults to gain real-world experience while also offering comprehensive job search support. By fostering the development of both hard and soft skills, Year Up empowers its participants to achieve their full potential in the workforce or academic settings.
Multiverse
Series A in 2019
Multiverse is an EdTech startup focused on providing an alternative to traditional university education through career-oriented apprenticeships. By matching young talent with professional services and digital roles, Multiverse aims to deliver relevant skills and applied learning experiences. The platform not only equips individuals with necessary competencies but also fosters the development of social capital and professional networks, empowering them to shape their own career paths. This approach offers a viable alternative to conventional university routes and standard corporate training programs, catering to the evolving needs of the workforce.
PolSource
Series A in 2019
PolSource is a Salesforce Platinum Partner that specializes in customer success management, offering a range of services designed to enhance the customer journey from marketing to sales. With a team of seasoned and certified Salesforce experts, the company operates across the Americas and Europe, delivering consulting and implementation solutions tailored to various industries, including Retail and Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Automotive, and Technology. PolSource's industry-specific accelerators facilitate rapid transformation and yield measurable outcomes, assisting businesses in improving revenue and profitability.
Sign In Enterprise
Series A in 2019
Sign In Enterprise, formerly Traction Guest, ensures safety and security for employees, contractors and essential visitors – wherever they work. The platform provides the most advanced enterprise visitor management system (VMS), health and safety controls, critical outreach and alerting, as well as analytics and auditing functionality. Sign In Enterprise facilitates multi-layered screening and approvals so that security processes can be finely tuned for unlimited locations, types of workplaces, and roles, making it easy and cost effective to codify duty of care best practices and keep people safe in a rapidly changing environment. A broad ecosystem of technology partners, integrators and customers leverage Sign In Enterprise's API-driven platform to develop feature-rich solutions aimed at solving complex security, safety and compliance challenges for enterprises around the world. Ideal for today’s hybrid workplace, Sign In Enterprise helps employers across dozens of industries demonstrably enforce workforce safety and security procedures so that workers can connect and collaborate with confidence.
Bridgit
Series A in 2019
Bridgit Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing construction project management solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Kitchener, Bridgit offers two primary products: Bridgit Bench, a workforce management and resource planning tool, and Bridgit Field, which focuses on inspection, task, and communication management. The company's mission is to enhance profitability in the construction industry through a people-first approach, transforming workforce data into actionable insights that support strategic and tactical decision-making. Bridgit serves a range of clients, including major construction firms such as Skanska and Balfour Beatty. The company has successfully raised over $35 million in equity financing from various investors, including Autodesk and Salesforce Ventures, enabling it to expand its offerings and support contractors and developers in managing their operations more efficiently.
Ellevest
Series A in 2019
Ellevest, Inc. is an investment management firm founded in 2014 and based in New York City, focusing primarily on providing financial services to women. The firm manages customized client portfolios across various asset classes globally, employing fundamental analysis and a top-down approach in its investment strategy. Ellevest has developed a digital investment platform that offers a personalized experience, utilizing proprietary algorithms tailored to women's financial needs, including salary peaks and goal-specific portfolios. This platform aims to empower female investors by helping them take control of their investments and achieve their financial goals through a user-friendly interface and thoughtful portfolio construction.
Candidly
Series A in 2019
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. It offers individuals and families through every step of the planning, borrowing, and repayment experience.
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