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PublicNYSE:CRM
Date7/04
Post IPO Valuation$110M

General Information

Websitesalesforce.com
Blogblogs.salesforce.com
Twitter@salesforce
CategoryEnterprise
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 | Desk.com
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
Stypi, 5/12
Rypple, 12/11
Model Metrics, 11/11
Desk, 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

InsightSquared 5/12
Ark 4/12
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
Desk 1/11
DocuSign 12/10
ServiceMax 4/10
Practice Fusion 1/10
Practice Fusion 8/09
Appirio 3/08

Funding

TOTAL $21M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $21M
Seed, 1/99
Larry Ellison
Halsey Minor
Magdalena Yesil
$4M
Series A, 12/99
William Hambrecht
Patrick McGovern
John Friedenrich
Igor Sill
$17M

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.

Milestones

Videos

Screenshots

Salesforce screenshot
Above: Salesforce Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 7/27/11

Products

Force.com
Sales Cloud
Salesforce AppExchange
Salesforce Chatter
Service Cloud

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Salesforce

Sources

  1. Salesforce Acquires YC-Backed Collaborative Text Editor Stypi (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Salesforce Buys Social Performance Platform Rypple; Will Launch ‘Human Capital Management’ Unit Successforce (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Salesforce Acquires Social And Mobile Cloud Computing Consultancy Model Metrics (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Salesforce Buys Customer Service SaaS Assistly For $50M To Reach Small Businesses (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Salesforce Buys Social Media Monitoring Company Radian6 For $326 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Manymoon Acquired by Salesforce.com (blog.manymoon.com) [edit]
  7. Salesforce Buys Web Conferencing Platform DimDim For $31 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Salesforce Buys Enterprise Chat Startup Activa Live (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Sitemasher sold and winding down... but to whom? (techvibes.com) [edit]
  12. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. SalesForce.com Inc acquires Informavores Ltd (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  14. Breaking: Salesforce.com Buys GroupSwim (cloudave.com) [edit]
  15. Citation Needed [add]
  16. Salesforce Buys Koral, Launches Content Exchange (startupmeme.com) [edit]
  17. Salesforce.com Buys Kieden (silicontap.com) [edit]
  18. Salesforce.com Acquires Sendia (blog.tmcnet.com) [edit]
  19. Fast-growing InsightSquared raises $4.5M to expand its BI for small biz (bizjournals.com) [edit]
  20. Ark Raised $4.2 Million Seed Round Instead Of Series A To "Keep Complete Control" Of Its People Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure Startup Flotype (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
  23. Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. Checkmarx Raises Funding From Salesforce.com, Ofer Hi-Tech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. 800App Closes Series B Round of Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  26. Kenandy Closes $10.5M Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  27. Mobile Enterprise Apps Developer Taptera Raises $2 Million From Salesforce, Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  28. SaaS Field Service Software ServiceMax Raises $14M From Mayfield, Salesforce And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. techcrunch.com [edit]
  30. Social Application Developer Seesmic Raises $4M From SoftBank And Salesforce (techcrunch.com) []
  31. techcrunch.com [edit]
  32. E-Signature Company DocuSign Lands $27 Million, Expands Management Team (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. SaaS Field Service Software ServiceMax Raises $8 Million From Salesforce And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  35. Practice Fusion Announces Investment from Salesforce.com and Cloud Computing Initiative (practicefusion.com) [edit]
  36. Sequoia Capital Invests in Appirio to Accelerate the Adoption of On-Demand (foxbusiness.com) [edit]
  37. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
  38. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
  39. Citation Needed [add]
    salesforce.com [edit]
    Salesforce Chatterizes 10,000 Of Its Customers First Week After Public Launch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Salesforce Shells Out $170 Million To Acquire Japanese Subsidiary From VC Firm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Salesforce.com acquires Dimdim (salesforce.com) [edit]
    Salesforce Buys Superbowl Ads To Promote Its New "Facebook For Businesses". (businessinsider.com) [edit]
    Salesforce Closes $326M Acquisition Of Social Media Monitoring Company Radian6 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Salesforce Posts Record Quarterly Revenue Of $546M; Raises Guidance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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