| Public | crm |
| Date | 6/04 |
| Valuation | $110M |
| Website | salesforce.com |
| Blog | blogs.salesforce.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 415.901.7000 |
| Employees | 2,606 |
| Founded | 4/99 |
| InStranet, 8/08 | $31.5M |
| Practice Fusion | 8/09 |
| Appirio | 3/08 |
| Total | $21M |
| Seed, 1999 Larry Ellison Halsey Minor Magdalena Yesil | $4M |
| Series A, 12/99 William Hambrecht Patrick McGovern John Friedenrich Igor Sill | $17M |
Salesforce is an on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution vendor. According to their website, more companies use Salesforce than any other on-demand CRM.
Salesforce was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, and went public June 2004. Salesforce has been a pioneer in developing enterprise platforms through its innovative AppExchange directory of on-demand applications, and its Force.com “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) API for extending Salesforce. As of April 2008, the company boasts over 38,100 customers and over 900,000 subscribers.
| Force.com |
| Sales Cloud |
| Salesforce AppExchange |
| Service Cloud |