Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced its second Impact Fund from Salesforce Ventures, the company's global strategic investment arm. The new $100 million fund will accelerate the growth of cloud companies addressing some of today's most pressing needs including education and reskilling, climate action, diversity, equity and inclusion, and providing tech for nonprofits and foundations. "Now more than ever, we believe business can be a powerful platform for change. We must leverage technology and invest in…

Global leader in CRM doubles down with an additional $50 million fund to empower cloud consulting firms and digital agencies to drive business transformation for customers around the world Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that Salesforce Ventures, the company's global corporate investment group, has launched a new $50 million Consultant Trailblazer Fund. The new fund will provide the next generation of cloud consulting companies and digital agencies with the capital required to build and scale their…

Salesforce Ventures Has Already Invested in More Than 50 Leading Startups Across 13 European Countries Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that Salesforce Ventures, the company's global corporate investment group, has launched a $125 million Europe Trailblazer Fund to continue to fuel enterprise cloud startups. Salesforce Ventures was the most active Corporate VC in Europe1 last year and has invested in companies pioneering digital payments, machine vision, artificial intelligence, blockchain and the API…

New, Dedicated Fund Will Empower Australian Startups to Scale, Invest in Innovation and Drive Customer Success Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that Salesforce Ventures, the company's global corporate investment group, has launched the Australia Trailblazer Fund, a new $50 million fund to empower Australian startups in the Salesforce ecosystem. With this new fund, Salesforce Ventures deepens its commitment to the region by investing in local innovation and inspiring Australian entrepreneurs to create next…

New fund will empower Japanese startups, fuel cloud innovation and drive customer success Unveiling of fund kicks off Salesforce World Tour Tokyo Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, today announced that Salesforce Ventures, the company's global corporate investment group, has launched the Japan Trailblazer Fund, a new $100 million fund to empower Japanese startups in the Salesforce ecosystem. With this new fund, Salesforce Ventures strengthens its position as one of the leading foreign corporate venture…

This is the Second Investment in SessionM by Salesforce Ventures Salesforce Ventures, the global corporate investment group of Salesforce, led the $23.8 million funding round for SessionM, a customer data and engagement platform. Other existing premier investors that participated in the round included Causeway Media Partners, CRV, General Atlantic, Highland Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. This is the second investment in the company by Salesforce Ventures. It had earlier participated in a $35 million…

New Fund Is Part of Salesforce's $2 Billion Commitment to Canada; Unveiling of Fund Kicks off Salesforce World Tour Toronto and Dreampitch Competition Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that Salesforce Ventures, the company's global corporate investment group, has launched the Canada Trailblazer Fund, a $100 million fund to invest in Canadian startups and fuel cloud innovation and customer success in the region. Salesforce Ventures has supported the Canadian startup community since 2011, investing in…

IFTTT Platform Customers Have the Opportunity to Integrate with over 600 Devices and Apps IFTTT, a leading applet creation platform, has announced $24 million in funding led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from IBM, Chamberlain Group, and Fenox Venture Capital. The company is focused on building a more connected world. The new capital will enable IFTTT to hire top talent to take on industry-changing initiatives and expand its platform. Currently, IFTTT helps app developers to build Applets, and embed them…

New Fund Will Fuel The Growth Of Companies Using Salesforce Technology To Address Challenges Across Workforce Development, Equality, Sustainability And The Social Sector First Funding Recipients Include Angaza, Ellevest, Hustle And Viridislearning Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced the Salesforce Impact Fund from Salesforce Ventures, the company's corporate investment group. The new $50 million fund will accelerate the growth of companies using Salesforce technology to address challenges across…

Adds Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner at Battery Ventures, to Board of Directors Kustomer, the next-generation customer management platform for the people-first enterprise, announced a $35 million Series C round led by Battery Ventures, bringing Kustomer’s total funding to $73.5 million. The investment comes just 6 months after its Series B round in June of 2018. Kustomer plans to use the capital to accelerate its go-to-market strategy, expand internationally, and invest in its platform, launching new products while…

Squark, a provider of no-code AI software for predictive customer insights, today announced the general availability of Squark 1.0, a next-generation predictive analytics SaaS that is both increasingly powerful and affordable. The software enables business users to produce AI-based insights about their customers to uncover new opportunities, mitigate risk, and reveal which data impacts the results. Additionally, Squark announced a seven-figure seed round led by TBD Angels and TWO39 Ventures. Squark, a…

Following a recent $28M Series A announcement, Airkit builds momentum with Series B and a growing roster of industry-leading brands Airkit, the world’s first low-code Digital Customer Experience platform, today announced it has raised an additional $40M Series B investment led by EQT Ventures, with additional investments from Accel, Emergence Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and other existing shareholders. The new Series B will be used to accelerate the company’s investments in go-to-market and product…

Aisera, the world's first AI-driven platform that automates tasks, actions and workflows for employees and customers, announced today that it has secured $40M in Series C funding. The round was led by Icon Ventures, with participation from new investor World Innovation Lab and existing investors True Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Webb Investment Network, and Sherpalo. The company, which has now raised over $90M in total funding, intends to invest the capital for…

Casted, the first Amplified Marketing Platform and the only audio and video podcast solution made for B2B marketers, announces $7 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Ventures. The round also includes current investors High Alpha Capital, Elevate Ventures, and Tappan Hill Ventures. Casted enables B2B enterprises to leverage audio and video content as a highly effective sales and marketing tool. With Casted, marketing teams can publish content, access a fully searchable content archive with transcription services…

After more than a decade championing product innovation and customer success at Salesforce, Darcy joins conversational sales and marketing platform Qualified amid massive year of 800% revenue growth Qualified, the conversational sales and marketing platform for revenue teams that use Salesforce, announced it has hired industry luminary and longtime Salesforce executive Dan Darcy as Chief Customer Officer. Darcy brings over 13 years of leadership at Salesforce to help enterprise B2B brands such as Adobe, Bitly, SurveyMonkey,…

Salesforce’s Next Generation Identity demands the scalability, agility, and connected digital experiences that Auth0 offers Auth0, the identity platform for application teams, announced it has been selected as the identity provider to power authentication for Salesforce Customer 360 Identity, its best-in-class consumer identity and access management (CIAM) technology, providing a single, trusted identity for more streamlined user management. Salesforce Customer 360 Identity will go into a pilot phase at the end of the year…

Hearsay Systems Deepens Salesforce CRM Integrations to Improve Financial Services-Focused Customer Experiences; Announces Investment from Salesforce Ventures Salesforce CRM integrations have been driving the last mile customer experience management demands for various industries. In a major announcement from the Salesforce economy, last-mile CDP company for the financial services Hearsay Systems has announced a strategic Salesforce partnership. The new-age CDP - Cloud CRM partnership will further empower Marketing and…

Arena enables media and e-commerce companies and nearly every other online business to improve experiences and reclaim ownership of their audiences from social media giants During his days at Hulu as part of the advertising sales team that scaled the media company’s revenue from $80 million to more than $1 billion, Arena CEO Paulo Martins had an epiphany. Nearly every single company in the world needs to make marketing decisions based on customer data and build their own customer experiences to more wisely spend marketing…

Salesforce's plan to end its Data Protection Solution on July 31 adds more challenges for organizations to maintain business continuity. Odaseva, the unified data protection, data privacy and DataOps platform, wants to remind Salesforce customers that there is no better time to develop an effective data protection plan, especially as the Salesforce Data Recovery Service is retiring on July 31, 2020. To maintain business continuity, Salesforce customers should consider proactive solutions to backup and restore their…

New technology innovations power customers with exceptional scale and access to data to drive business decisions Snowflake, the cloud data platform, announced the latest technology advancements from its partnership with Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, that will yield significant opportunities for joint customers. Native integrations between the two technologies will allow organizations to easily unify and analyze all data in Snowflake Cloud Data Platform and visualize it with business intelligence tools such as…