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Salesforce Ventures portfolio company ElevenLabs is partnering with TIME to create automated AI-assisted audio voiceovers of TIME's news articles and blogs. "Their cutting-edge technology is helping us make TIME’s content even more engaging and accessible." – Burhan Hamid, CTO of TIME Such a cool collaboration 🔥 Read the full case study 👇 https://lnkd.in/e6HD_WvN

Exciting to see some of our portfolio companies featured in Sifted’s Rising 100: The software-savvy startups scaling fast in 2024, showcasing the top 100 European and Israeli startups pushing boundaries in B2B SaaS. 🚀 charles 🚀 Salto 🚀 Sylvera Congratulations to all the trailblazing founders and companies that made the list! 👀 See who made the B2B SaaS startup ranking here: https://lnkd.in/eRzhnNcu

"We are building a platform to collect, monitor, and verify environmental data. Our goal is to be the single source of truth for trustworthy, actionable, and accessible data across Africa and the tropical belt where, for decades, trust has been expensive." Congratulations Kate Kallot, founder of Salesforce Ventures portfolio company Amini, for your recent feature by the UBS Sustainability and Impact Institute. You can read the full interview here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eU7ZvSWB?

📸 A few pictures from us at last week's World Tour London. It was an honor to host a fireside chat with Raj Kaur Khaira, Co-Founder and Deputy Global CEO of Salesforce Ventures portfolio company AutogenAI, and Franny Hsiao, PhD, Distinguished AI Architect at Salesforce. The duo engaged the audience in a dynamic discussion on the future of AI for enterprises. They explored AI's transformative potential, applications, as well as ethical considerations surrounding its implementation. Our own Paul Drews kicked off the fireside, and Nowi Kallen chipped in with his own insights investing in the UK market. To date, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $200M in UK-based companies. Read more about Salesforce's investment in the UK: https://lnkd.in/eWCzu-Dr Thanks for having us London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

📸 Yesterday in Japan, our team and members of the Salesforce Ventures portfolio partnered with Shanti Volunteer Association as part of Cloud Gives Back—Salesforce's annual day of volunteerism. Attendees spent the day translating Japanese picture books into other languages to be sent to Asian countries. Grateful for the opportunity to live our values and give back to the broader community 🙏

📸 Today in San Francisco, Salesforce Ventures hosted our 5th annual Cloud Gives Back as a way to live our values, give back to the local community, and encourage our portfolio to do the same. Volunteers spent the day at Paul Revere Elementary School helping clean classrooms, prep supplies for summer school, and beautifying their playground. Appreciative of the opportunity to pay it forward 🙏

Congratulations to our portfolio companies Wiz, Drata, and 1Password for being named to Notable Capital's Rising in Cyber List, recognizing the most innovative startups in cybersecurity. Very well deserved 🔐 Check out the list here ⬇ https://risingincyber.com/

The U.S. market provides a huge opportunity for international startups to scale. But selling to U.S. customers often requires international startups to remake their entire GTM strategy to accommodate U.S. buyers. Our own Laura Rowson & Nowi Kallen recently hosted a workshop with Zencity CEO Eyal Feder-Levy & JJELLYFISH founder Jen Abel focused on GTM strategy for founders expanding to the U.S. In our latest article, we share practical advice from their conversation:

Announcing our investment & partnership with Sixfold 🙌 Sixfold is using generative AI to underwrite insurance, allowing insurers to do more business that better fits their risk profile. Congratulations to Alex Schmelkin, Jane Tran, Brian Moseley, and the entire Sixfold team!

Congratulations Sunil Gottumukkala, Vishal Agarwal, and the entire Averlon team! We're excited to support you in building and scaling an AI-powered unified risk platform. Big things coming 🙌