Salesforce Ventures

Our 2025 Year in Review is live 🚀 ✅ 44 new investments ✅ 30 follow-on investments ✅ 20+ M&A exits ✅ $1B AI Fund fully deployed ✅ New focus areas in robotics, defense, & energy Explore our full Year in Review: salesforceventures.com/sfv-2025/

We've invested in @OpturaAI 🚀 Healthcare AI has a measurement problem. Orgs are running pilots — but can't prove hard-dollar ROI to their boards. Optura fixes that. A full-stack AI OS for healthcare enterprises. Proud to partner with this team 🤝 salesforceventures.com/perspectives/b…

"Peter Morales was put on this earth to solve this problem." After leading @Code_Metal_AI's Series B, @RobwKeith talks to @ryanaytay about why Salesforce Ventures invested in the business 🎥

"I think it's a great network to have. The Salesforce ecosystem is very big, and so whether it be execs or people working within the company, or the companies within the Ventures portfolio ... it's a massive network." – @ryanaytay of @Code_Metal_AI on why he partnered with SFV

Solving the AI energy crisis requires more than new generation. It also requires infrastructure that ensures energy gets where it needs to go. We just published Part 2 of our energy series, focused on modernizing the U.S. power grid. Read it here: salesforceventures.com/perspectives/t…

"There's a lot happening in the world of AI and code generation ... but there's not enough focus on what I'll call AI verification." @ryanaytay, COO of @Code_Metal_AI, on the company's mission and why he decided to join.

New on the blog today: What the Data Says About AI Pricing 📈 @Spyzguyz dug into our recent AI Pricing Report and shared some of his favorite takeaways. 🔗 Read it here: salesforceventures.com/perspectives/a…

@Code_Metal_AI @ryanaytay @RobwKeith Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=POSi1m…

"Will AI fully replace [software development]? I don't think it will. But @Code_Metal_AI will make it easier for us to go faster." @ryanaytay, COO of Code Metal, discusses the future of software development with @RobwKeith.

Congrats to the 4️⃣ Salesforce Ventures portfolio companies named to @TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2026 list: @AnthropicAI, @EmeraldAi_, @Lovable, and @MistralAI 🚀 Well deserved. time.com/collection/tim…

"Having spent time with @Benioff, I was really inspired by what can be built over decades of hard work, and effort, and persistence." @ChaseLochmiller, CEO of @CrusoeAI, discusses why he partnered with Salesforce Ventures for his company's Series E 📹

"I think we are going to build a lot more [AI] infrastructure at a much lower cost, partially because the reliability will be lower of those data centers." @CrusoeAI CEO @ChaseLochmiller on why he hopes to see a 40% reduction in costs for developing AI infra in the future 📹

"In many ways I think we may be under-building and underestimating the actual amount of computing infrastructure we're going to need as AI scales." @ChaseLochmiller, CEO of @CrusoeAI, on how model providers are thinking about scaling AI infrastructure to sustain demand 🎥

We're actively looking for founders building at the intersection of power and AI. If that's you, we'd love to connect 🤝 🔗 Read our thesis: salesforceventures.com/perspectives/e…

AI isn't just an energy demand driver — it's the most powerful tool we have to unlock more energy. Our portfolio companies @CrusoeEnergy, @WeaveGrid, @basepowerco, and @EmeraldAi_ are already building this stack. Energy innovation IS AI infrastructure innovation.

AI is the most transformative technology of our lifetime. But its scale is defined by electrons. We just published our energy investment thesis — 5⃣ technologies we believe will power the AI era. A thread 🧵 salesforceventures.com/perspectives/e…