Salesforce

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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.

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• Invested in Practice Fusion. (8/5/09)
  Posted 8/5/09 at 11:29am
• Acquired InStranet for $31.5M. (8/4/08)
  Posted 7/27/09 at 2:26am
• Salesforce — Salesforce releases new force.com toolkit for Google APIs. (6/23/08)
  Posted 6/23/08 at 4:20am
• Invested in Appirio. (3/13/08)
  Posted 7/21/08 at 12:16pm
• Went public with stock symbol crm. (6/23/04)
  Posted 4/13/08 at 9:04pm
• Received $17M in Series A funding. (12/2/99)
  Posted 4/13/08 at 9:02pm
• Received $4M in Seed funding. (1999)
  Posted 4/13/08 at 9:02pm
• Kenneth I. Juster, EVP, Law, Policy, and Corporate Strategy added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Jim Steele, Chief Customer Officer and President of International Operations added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Graham Smith, EVP & CFO added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Polly Sumner, President, Platform, Alliances, and Services added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• George Hu, EVP, Marketing, Applications, and Education added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Parker Harris, EVP, Technology added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Steve Cakebread, President & Chief Strategy Officer added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Marc Benioff, Founder, Chairman & CEO added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:40pm
• Frank van Veenendaal, President, Global Corporate Sales and North American Operations added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 8:43pm
• Bob Feller, Vice President of Financial Planning added.
  Posted 10/15/08 at 5:07pm
• Garry Hanna, EVP for Enterprise Sales added.
  Posted 2/8/09 at 6:18pm
• Kraig Swensrud, VP Producting Marketing added.
  Posted 7/1/09 at 1:26pm
• Steve Fisher, Senior VP AppExchange added.
  Posted 7/1/09 at 4:49pm
• Doug Dennerline, EVP Enterprise Sales Americas added.
  Posted 8/25/09 at 8:56am
• Marcus Nelson, Director of Product Marketing added.
  Posted 9/14/09 at 8:45pm

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2. Practice Fusion Announces Investment from Salesforce.com and Cloud Computing Initiative (practicefusion.com) [edit]
3. Sequoia Capital Invests in Appirio to Accelerate the Adoption of On-Demand (foxbusiness.com) [edit]
4. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
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