Salesforce Ventures

After leading IP Copilot's seed round, co-founders Austin Walters and Jason Harrier sat down with our own Caroline Fiegel and Jason Spinell to discuss IP Copilot's origins, why they partnered with Salesforce Ventures, and lessons for entrepreneurs. A few of our favorite insights from their conversation 👇 🧠 Embrace radical focus: "True innovation comes from doubling down on what truly matters, solving one big problem exceptionally well vs. spreading your energy too thin." 🤝 Maximize customer feedback: "Put what you have in people’s hands, listen and iterate as fast as you can." 🛠️ AI will create more inventors: "We see a future where IP tools are democratized and accessible to everyone, empowering individuals across organizations to identify, share, and protect their ideas with ease. " Read their full conversation on our blog:

Announcing our investment in IP Copilot 🎉 IP Copilot is bringing intellectual property management into the modern age with an AI-powered platform for discovering, capturing, curating, and protecting your business's IP. We're excited to partner with co-founders Austin Walters and Jason Harrier and the entire IP Copilot team as they unlock new efficiencies for law firms and businesses managing intellectual property. And we’re excited to support IP Copilot alongside our friends at Preface Ventures, NextGen Ventures, and Notation Capital. Welcome to Salesforce Ventures, IP Copilot 🙌

Last night in Vancouver, our team hosted an amazing group of AI founders, developers, and researchers across startups and enterprises during NeurIPS alongside our friends at Together AI and Salesforce AI 🇨🇦 Our own Emily Zhao led a discussion featuring Tri Dao,  Chief Scientist at Together AI, John Emmons, Director of AI Research at Salesforce, and Tony Ginart, Lead Scientist at Salesforce on the Together AI x Salesforce AI partnership and how Salesforce AI is leveraging Together's product to amplify their AI efforts. It's always a delight to spend time with our portfolio, meet new founders and investors, and learn about the latest AI research and developments. Thank you to all who attended 🙏

Corporate VCs have emerged as a key partner in climate tech development, according to a new PwC report 🤝 "‘CVCs can invest on a longer time horizon, which is often better for alignment. They can support start-ups as they test and iterate on product, run pilots and earn contracts en route to building an impactful business." – Enki T. Salesforce Ventures is proud to support emerging climate tech businesses with the patient capital, coveted community, and privileged access they need to build industry-defining companies that address our world's most challenging issues 🌍 For more on the state of climate innovation, read PwC's latest report: https://lnkd.in/gFVPykeR

Headed to Vancouver for NeurIPS next week? Join Salesforce AI, and Together AI, and our own Emily Zhao & Caroline Fiegel for an evening of networking and knowledge sharing on December 11 🤝 The event will feature a conversation with Salesforce AI and Tri Dao, Chief Scientist of Together AI, showcasing a buyer's perspective on how Salesforce AI is leveraging Together's product to amplify their AI efforts. Attendees are invited to connect and converse with fellow founders, researchers, and developers from across the startup and enterprise ecosystems 🥂 Reserve your spot today: https://lnkd.in/ekqhiby7

We're excited to share that our Managing Partner, Paul Drews, will be speaking at #ReutersNEXT next week in New York City. Paul will participate in a panel alongside Rob Sherman of Meta and George Sivulka of Hebbia on the AI investing landscape and what to expect in the coming months and years. Review the full agenda on the Reuters NEXT website: https://lnkd.in/emqTJ8PY

Supporting founders means more than investing capital. Since our inception, providing value to the startup community has been part of our DNA and a critical piece of how we show up for founders. As our fund has evolved, we’ve strategically invested in formalizing our value-add capabilities to ensure we’re maximizing the impact on our portfolio. Through our Platform team spanning Financial Operations, Marketing, and Portfolio Development, we provide the resources, guidance, and connections enterprising founders need to build industry-defining companies. “Salesforce Ventures is really unique in the value they bring to us in that they can really help to raise awareness of our solution on the global stage and help us to become a thought leader in our emerging industry.” – Sonia Kastner, Co-Founder & CEO, Pano AI For more on the evolution of Salesforce Ventures, download our latest report:

Today Writer is taking the next major step in our mission to bring full-stack generative AI to the enterprise, with our $200M Series C round at a $1.9B valuation. The new investment will help accelerate our roadmap, drive ROI for customers, and set us on a path to deliver autonomous AI-powered workflows to the world’s greatest organizations. Thank you to the Writer team, our customers, and partners who have helped us drive so much innovation and adoption over the past year since our Series B. We’ve shipped new platform capabilities that deliver the best ROI in the industry and have been giant leaps forward in the enterprise AI space. We've published new research, architected new transformers, released new state-of-the-art LLMs, and designed new RAG systems — which are now the foundation of today’s full-stack platform. And we have so much more up our sleeves. A special shout out to the EPD team, whose talents and commitment are delivering leading edge technology for our customers. And a special thank you to our lead investors Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, and welcome to new investors Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, B Capital, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures and Workday Ventures. Learn more about what’s next:   https://lnkd.in/eve9Evan

"We highly value investors who can bet on a founding team obsessed with supercharging a fledgling market within the next couple of years." After leading Argmax's seed round, CEO Atila Orhon sat down with Jason Spinell and Caroline Fiegel to discuss the company's origins, his vision for the future, and why he decided to partner with Salesforce Ventures to help Argmax build foundation models on device. Read their conversation on our blog 👇

Values-driven investing isn't just good ethics — it's good business ❤️ Through sponsoring initiatives like the BLCK VC, AccelerateHER , VC University, and Women in Cloud, we're fostering a more diverse and inclusive technology ecosystem. Further, our Impact Fund portfolio companies facilitated $72.8M in grants and donations in 2023 alone. And leading with our values has encouraged others to lead with theirs. 170 of our portfolio companies have joined the Pledge 1% movement. “We have a shared vision that together, we can significantly impact the transparency, disclosure, and actions that companies take to accelerate the transition toward a 100% zero-carbon future.” – Kiran Bhatraju, Founder and CEO, Arcadia For more on the evolution of Salesforce Ventures, download our latest report: https://lnkd.in/eSt9tpXf