Matt Garratt, VP Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures Overview
Investing in the Next Generation of Cloud Innovation

Salesforce Ventures: Investing in Innovation
​ Active Strategic Investment
Arm of Salesforce
​ Invest in the Leading SaaS
& Enterprise Companies
​ Portfolio Companies
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Active investor for 7+ Years
+170 Portfolio Companies
14 Countries
Grow the Salesforce
ecosystem of
partners
Accelerate their
growth with our
internal expertise
Support
Guidance

Salesforce Ventures: Investing in Innovation
​ Active Strategic Investment
Arm of Salesforce
​ Invest in the Leading SaaS
& Enterprise Companies
​ Portfolio Companies
Receive Access & Advice
Active investor for 7+ Years
175 Portfolio Companies
14 Countries
Grow the Salesforce
ecosystem of
partners
Accelerate their
growth with our
internal expertise
Support
Guidance

Investing in Innovation
​ Provide customers early access to product
and technology innovation
​ Insight into innovation and an early view into
emerging market opportunities
​ Access to new markets and geographies
​ Grow the ecosystem, drive strategic benefit and create shareholder value
​ Make impactful investments that fuel
growth in our recurring revenue base
​ Increase cloud adoption and accelerate
momentum of cloud technologies
​ Drive customer value by extending the
utility of our platform

Investments Across Our Product Clouds Fuels Growth
Commerce
Platform & Apps
Sales
Service
Marketing
Community
Analytics

Salesforce Ventures: Investing in Innovation
​ Active Strategic Investment
Arm of Salesforce
​ Invest in the Leading SaaS
& Enterprise Companies
​ Portfolio Companies
Receive Access & Advice
Active investor for 7+ Years
170 Portfolio Companies
14 Countries
Grow the Salesforce
ecosystem of
partners
Accelerate their
growth with our
internal expertise
Support
Guidance

+170 Active Portfolio Companies Across 14 Countries

Salesforce Ventures: Investing in Innovation
​ Active Strategic Investment
Arm of Salesforce
​ Invest in the Leading SaaS
& Enterprise Companies
​ Portfolio Companies
Receive Access & Advice
Active investor for 7+ Years
175 Portfolio Companies
14 Countries
Grow the Salesforce
ecosystem of
partners
Accelerate their
growth with our
internal expertise
Support
Guidance

Business model
Marketing & Positioning
Product & Technology
Fundraising
Our Model Depends on Adding Value to Portfolio Companies
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VCs
Partners
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Customers
Investors
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Salesforce Executives

​ 60+ Portfolio Companies Have Taken the Pledge
​ Committed to bringing the 1-1-1 model to startups
Bringing Philanthropy to our Portfolio Companies
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Companies receive access to the expertise of the Salesforce
Foundation to help them adopt Salesforce's integrated
philanthropic 1-1-1 model, leveraging one percent of the
company’s product, equity and time for social good.

Twilio: OEM Partnership to Extend Sales Cloud Capability
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables developers to use standard web languages to
build voice, VoIP and SMS apps via a web API
We negotiated an OEM with Twilio to help power Lightning Voice and enable click to call functionality
for Sales Cloud
Lightning Voice offers an outbound calling product with an optional inbound calling product