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PublicNYSE:crm
Date6/04
Valuation$110M

General Information

Websitesalesforce.com
Blogblogs.salesforce.com
Twitter@salesforce
CategoryEducation
Phone415-901-7000
Email
Employees3,500
Founded1999
DescriptionEnterprise Cloud Computing

Offices

HQ
The Landmark @ One Market Street
Suite 300
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA

People

Founder, Chairman & CEO
Chief Scientist
CMO
EVP & CFO
EVP of emerging markets
VP and GM | Assistly
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Commercial Sales, Americas
Senior VP AppExchange
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Former People

President & Chief Strategy Officer
Vice President of Financial Planning
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Acquisitions

Total$831M
Rypple, 12/11
Model Metrics, 11/11
Assistly, 9/11 $50M
Radian6, 3/11 $326M
Manymoon, 2/11
Dimdim, 1/11 $31M
Etacts, 12/10
Heroku, 12/10 $250M
Activa Live, 9/10
Sitemasher, 6/10
Jigsaw, 4/10 $142M
Informavores, 12/09
GroupSwim, 12/09
InStranet, 8/08 $31.5M
Koral Technologies, 4/07
Kieden, 8/06
Sendia, 4/06

Investments

Flotype 1/12
Urban Airship 11/11
Box 10/11
Checkmarx 10/11
800APP 9/11
Kenandy 8/11
Taptera 8/11
ServiceMax 6/11
HubSpot 3/11
Seesmic 2/11
Assistly 1/11
DocuSign 12/10
ServiceMax 4/10
Practice Fusion 1/10
Practice Fusion 8/09
Appirio 3/08

Funding

Competitors

Service Providers

Tags

Salesforce

Salesforce is an enterprise cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. The company is best known for its on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.

Salesforce was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, and went public in 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.

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Videos

Screenshots

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Uploaded: 7/27/11

Products

Force.com
Sales Cloud
Salesforce AppExchange
Salesforce Chatter
Service Cloud

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Salesforce

Sources

  1. Salesforce Buys Social Performance Platform Rypple; Will Launch ‘Human Capital Management’ Unit Successforce (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Salesforce Acquires Social And Mobile Cloud Computing Consultancy Model Metrics (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Salesforce Buys Customer Service SaaS Assistly For $50M To Reach Small Businesses (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Salesforce Buys Social Media Monitoring Company Radian6 For $326 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Manymoon Acquired by Salesforce.com (blog.manymoon.com) [edit]
  6. Salesforce Buys Web Conferencing Platform DimDim For $31 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Salesforce Buys Enterprise Chat Startup Activa Live (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Sitemasher sold and winding down... but to whom? (techvibes.com) [edit]
  11. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. SalesForce.com Inc acquires Informavores Ltd (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  13. Breaking: Salesforce.com Buys GroupSwim (cloudave.com) [edit]
  14. Citation Needed [add]
  15. Salesforce Buys Koral, Launches Content Exchange (startupmeme.com) [edit]
  16. Salesforce.com Buys Kieden (silicontap.com) [edit]
  17. Salesforce.com Acquires Sendia (blog.tmcnet.com) [edit]
  18. Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure Startup Flotype (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
  20. Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Checkmarx Raises Funding From Salesforce.com, Ofer Hi-Tech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. 800App Closes Series B Round of Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  23. Kenandy Closes $10.5M Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  24. Mobile Enterprise Apps Developer Taptera Raises $2 Million From Salesforce, Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. SaaS Field Service Software ServiceMax Raises $14M From Mayfield, Salesforce And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  26. techcrunch.com [edit]
  27. Social Application Developer Seesmic Raises $4M From SoftBank And Salesforce (techcrunch.com) []
  28. techcrunch.com [edit]
  29. E-Signature Company DocuSign Lands $27 Million, Expands Management Team (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. SaaS Field Service Software ServiceMax Raises $8 Million From Salesforce And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  32. Practice Fusion Announces Investment from Salesforce.com and Cloud Computing Initiative (practicefusion.com) [edit]
  33. Sequoia Capital Invests in Appirio to Accelerate the Adoption of On-Demand (foxbusiness.com) [edit]
  34. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
  35. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
  36. Citation Needed [add]
  37. salesforce.com [edit]
  38. Salesforce Chatterizes 10,000 Of Its Customers First Week After Public Launch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. Salesforce Shells Out $170 Million To Acquire Japanese Subsidiary From VC Firm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  40. Salesforce.com acquires Dimdim (salesforce.com) [edit]
  41. Salesforce Buys Superbowl Ads To Promote Its New "Facebook For Businesses". (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  42. Salesforce Closes $326M Acquisition Of Social Media Monitoring Company Radian6 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  43. Salesforce Posts Record Quarterly Revenue Of $546M; Raises Guidance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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