Salesforce

Salesforce, Inc.
FormerlySalesforce.com, Inc. (1999–2022)
Company typePublic
Industry
FoundedFebruary 3, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-02-03)
Founders
HeadquartersSalesforce Tower
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people
ServicesCloud computing
RevenueIncrease US$34.86 billion (2024)
Increase US$5.011 billion (2024)
Increase US$4.136 billion (2024)
Total assetsIncrease US$99.82 billion (2024)
Total equityIncrease US$59.65 billion (2024)
Number of employees
72,682 (2024)
Subsidiaries
ASN
Websitesalesforce.com
Footnotes / references
Financials as of January 31, 2024.[1]

Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, and application development.

Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in March 1999, Salesforce grew quickly, making its initial public offering in 2004. As of September 2022, Salesforce is the 61st largest company in the world by market cap with a value of nearly US$153 billion.[2] It became the world's largest enterprise software firm in 2022.[3] Salesforce ranked 491st on the 2023 edition of the Fortune 500, making $31,352 million in revenues.[4] Since 2020, Salesforce has also been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.[5]

  1. ^ "salesforce.com, inc. Annual Report for fiscal year ending January 31, 2024 (Form 10-K)". EDGAR. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 6, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  2. ^ "Companies ranked by Market Cap – CompaniesMarketCap.com". companiesmarketcap.com. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  3. ^ Evans, Bob (August 29, 2022). "Salesforce Leapfrogs SAP as World's Largest Enterprise-Apps Vendor". Acceleration Economy. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  4. ^ "salesforce.com, inc. | 2023 Fortune Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  5. ^ Volkman, Eric (August 4, 2020). "Salesforce to Join Dow Jones Industrial Average". Nasdaq. Retrieved August 24, 2022.