Salesforce is a leading cloud-based software company, founded in 1999, specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. It offers a range of enterprise applications, including Sales Cloud for sales automation, Service Cloud for customer service, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing, and Commerce Cloud for e-commerce. Additionally, Salesforce provides a platform for building custom applications and MuleSoft for data integration. Salesforce.org, a division of the company, donates and discounts its technology to nonprofits and educational institutions, fostering a culture of giving back. Salesforce Ventures, the company's venture capital arm, invests in enterprise technology startups globally, providing funding, access to the Salesforce ecosystem, and guidance from its executives.
GM and Vice President, Media Cloud, Salesforce Industries
Paul Drews
Managing Director, Salesforce Ventures
Dan Farber
SVP Strategic Communications
Caroline Fiegel
Investor, Slack Fund
Kartikeya Gupta
Principal
Takuya Hosomura
Principal
Achyut Jajoo
SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive
Nowi Kallen
Managing Director
Zak Kokosa
Investor
Rohit Mahna
SVP and General Manager
Fatima Paruk MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Health Officer
Bill Patterson
EVP and GM, CRM Applications
Lauryn Poyser
Investor, Impact Fund
Dom Pusateri
Investor
Alexandra Quie
Principal
Laura Rowson
Principal
Katie Schwartz
Principal, Salesforce Ventures
John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Jason Spinell
Partner, Slack Fund
Jim Steele
President, Global Strategic Customers
Kevin Wu
Investor
Emily Zhao
Principal
Past deals in Education
College Possible
Grant in 2025
College Possible provides coaching, admission, and support to students from low-income backgrounds.
Uplimit
Series A in 2024
Uplimit is an education technology company that aims to transform how professionals and organizations develop essential skills for the future. By leveraging an AI-powered platform, Uplimit offers innovative learning solutions tailored to the needs of the modern workforce. The platform provides live group courses focused on machine learning and data science, created and taught by industry experts. This approach enables both employees and students to enhance their professional skills while learning alongside peers in a supportive community. Uplimit's emphasis on scalable skill development ensures that individuals and organizations can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing professional landscape.
Education at Work
Grant in 2023
Education at Work provides contact center, workforce solutions, outsourcing, customer care, technical support, customer acquisition and retention, finance and accounting, HR services, collegiate workforce, university partnerships, college jobs, jobs for college students, back-office support, call center, customer experience, onshore, CSAT, tuition assistance, and career readiness.
Reejig
Venture Round in 2022
Reejig Pty Ltd, established in 2018 and headquartered in Ultimo, Australia, specializes in a SaaS platform that empowers organizations to optimize their workforce. The platform leverages big data, deep learning, and independently audited AI to provide real-time insights into employee skills, potential, and career aspirations. This enables businesses to fill roles swiftly, identify retention risks, redeploy talent, and facilitate career growth. Reejig serves a diverse range of clients, including global corporations, governments, and academic institutions, such as Woolworths, KPMG, and the NSW Government.
Reejig
Venture Round in 2022
Reejig Pty Ltd, established in 2018 and headquartered in Ultimo, Australia, specializes in a SaaS platform that empowers organizations to optimize their workforce. The platform leverages big data, deep learning, and independently audited AI to provide real-time insights into employee skills, potential, and career aspirations. This enables businesses to fill roles swiftly, identify retention risks, redeploy talent, and facilitate career growth. Reejig serves a diverse range of clients, including global corporations, governments, and academic institutions, such as Woolworths, KPMG, and the NSW Government.
Arbor Day Foundation
Grant in 2022
The Arbor Day Foundation, established in 1972, is a Nebraska-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to tree planting, conservation, and education. As the world's largest nonprofit membership organization focused on this mission, it has over one million supporters. The Foundation's impact is driven by its conservation and education programs, inspiring people globally to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. Its board of trustees oversees the management of its assets.
Paper
Series D in 2022
Paper, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Santa Monica, California, is a remote tutoring company. It designs an educational support system platform that offers live help, essay review, real-time feedback, and intervention tools for students and teachers. The platform aims to provide personalized learning support, connecting students with certified educators who can provide contextualized feedback and guide them towards a deeper understanding of academic concepts.
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Grant in 2022
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools' transformation of schools is fundamentally about changing, building, and strengthening systems and building the capacity of adults surrounding students. The firm focuses on building school leaders, teachers, families, and community partners.
Monogusa
Series B in 2021
Monoxer is a company that specializes in educational technology, specifically aimed at improving memory retention for learners. It offers e-learning and class management platforms tailored for private schools, tutoring academies, prep schools, and language schools. Monoxer provides real-time analysis of learning content, visualizing each learner's knowledge retention levels.
BetterUp
Series E in 2021
BetterUp Inc. is a leadership development company that offers an innovative online platform aimed at enhancing the personal and professional growth of individuals and organizations. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, BetterUp specializes in virtual coaching, providing users with personalized guidance through one-on-one sessions with a network of over 3,000 coaches available in 46 languages across more than 90 countries. The platform focuses on fostering mental fitness, career and leadership development, and social connection, thereby enabling employees to develop new behaviors and skills that promote high performance in a rapidly changing work environment. With a client base that includes prominent organizations such as NASA, Google, and Hilton, BetterUp has established itself as a leader in the field of mental health and coaching. The company is supported by a distinguished Science Board composed of experts in positive psychology and human performance, further enhancing its credibility and impact in the industry.
The Access Project
Grant in 2021
The Access Project is an education charity foundation dedicated to helping high-potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds gain access to top universities. It primarily serves schools where at least 30% of students qualify for free school meals. The organization provides in-school mentoring and personalized tuition, aimed at improving students' academic performance and guiding them through the university application process. By addressing educational inequality, The Access Project seeks to enhance social mobility and ensure that capable students have the opportunity to pursue higher education.
Chicago Public Schools
Grant in 2021
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the third largest school district in the United States. Chicago Public Schools has set ambitious goals to ensure that every child-in every school and every neighborhood-has access to a world-class learning experience from birth, resulting in graduation from high school college-and career ready. Please visit our website at www.cps.edu to learn more about the organization.
Oakland Unified School District
Grant in 2021
Oakland Unified is California's most-improved urban school district over the last seven years. The state-appointed leadership of the Oakland Unified School District embarked on a set of initiatives collectively called Expect Success! Essentially a redesign of OUSD, Expect Success! aims to transform schools into communities of learning to build more opportunity, empowerment and expectations of success in the district.
Forum des images
Grant in 2021
Forum des images offer digital learning methods in underserved schools.
New York City Department Of Education
Grant in 2021
The New York City Department of Education is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The New York City Department of Education is school district in the United States. It offers comprehensive resources for students, parents, educators, and the general public.
School Board Partners
Grant in 2021
School Board Partners is a group of elected, inspired, and diverse leaders from across the country dedicated to improving student outcomes. School Board Partners, founded by current school board members Carrie Douglass and Ethan Ashley, provides emerging, inspired elected community leaders serving on local school boards with the training, support, and mentorship they need to successfully advocate for high-quality school systems.
San Francisco Unified School District
Grant in 2021
San Francisco Unified School District is the seventh-largest school district in California and educates over 57,000 students who live in the 49-square-mile area of the City and County of San Francisco. SFUSD encompasses 140 PreK through 12th-grade public schools and prepares students for success in college and careers by assuring that they have the confidence, competence and information needed for full participation in the economic, political, cultural, and intellectual life of our nation and global society. Our vision: every student who attends SFUSD schools will graduate from high school ready for college and careers and equipped for 21st century success.
Indianapolis Public Schools
Grant in 2021
Indianapolis Public Schools is the school district in Indianapolis, and in the state of Indiana.
Crehana
Series B in 2021
Crehana is an online training platform based in Lima, Peru, dedicated to serving creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, the platform offers over 500 courses spanning various fields, including design, coding, digital marketing, illustration, photography, and audiovisuals. Its mission is to facilitate professional growth through affordable, project-based learning, addressing the skills gap in the region. By providing a diverse range of programs aimed at both individuals and companies, Crehana seeks to empower users to enhance their skill sets and achieve their professional aspirations in an evolving job market.
Paper
Series C in 2021
Paper, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Santa Monica, California, is a remote tutoring company. It designs an educational support system platform that offers live help, essay review, real-time feedback, and intervention tools for students and teachers. The platform aims to provide personalized learning support, connecting students with certified educators who can provide contextualized feedback and guide them towards a deeper understanding of academic concepts.
Guild
Series E in 2021
Guild's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and careers. It offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model.
OpenClassrooms
Series C in 2021
OpenClassrooms is an online education platform based in Paris, France, founded in 2007. It has emerged as one of Europe’s largest education-to-employment platforms, serving 355,000 students across 140 countries. The company offers a variety of accredited online courses and degree programs, including Associate, Bachelor’s, and Master’s level diplomas. OpenClassrooms focuses on vocational training in high-demand fields such as coding, IT, product management, data management, marketing, communications, and UX design. Its educational model emphasizes competency-based learning, combining high-quality online coursework with personalized mentorship, project-based experiences, and career coaching. The platform also collaborates with numerous corporate partners, providing a job guarantee to enhance employability for its graduates.
Class Technologies
Series A in 2021
Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student.
Candidly
Series A in 2021
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. It offers individuals and families through every step of the planning, borrowing, and repayment experience.
BetterUp
Series D in 2021
BetterUp Inc. is a leadership development company that offers an innovative online platform aimed at enhancing the personal and professional growth of individuals and organizations. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, BetterUp specializes in virtual coaching, providing users with personalized guidance through one-on-one sessions with a network of over 3,000 coaches available in 46 languages across more than 90 countries. The platform focuses on fostering mental fitness, career and leadership development, and social connection, thereby enabling employees to develop new behaviors and skills that promote high performance in a rapidly changing work environment. With a client base that includes prominent organizations such as NASA, Google, and Hilton, BetterUp has established itself as a leader in the field of mental health and coaching. The company is supported by a distinguished Science Board composed of experts in positive psychology and human performance, further enhancing its credibility and impact in the industry.
Flockjay
Series A in 2021
Flockjay, Inc. is an online sales academy based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing hands-on training for aspiring sales professionals, focusing on both inbound and outbound sales techniques. Their curriculum includes lead qualification, time management, discovery calls, and multi-channel outreach, as well as practical skills like crafting persuasive emails and handling objections. Flockjay also offers modern sales tools training and additional services such as resume workshops, interview coaching, and networking opportunities. Committed to promoting diversity and accessibility in the tech industry, Flockjay connects job seekers from underrepresented communities with high-paying job opportunities at leading companies, ensuring they receive final round interviews. Through its remote learning platform, Flockjay aims to empower individuals to achieve upward mobility in the tech sector.
Crehana
Series A in 2020
Crehana is an online training platform based in Lima, Peru, dedicated to serving creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, the platform offers over 500 courses spanning various fields, including design, coding, digital marketing, illustration, photography, and audiovisuals. Its mission is to facilitate professional growth through affordable, project-based learning, addressing the skills gap in the region. By providing a diverse range of programs aimed at both individuals and companies, Crehana seeks to empower users to enhance their skill sets and achieve their professional aspirations in an evolving job market.
Paper
Funding Round in 2020
Paper, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Santa Monica, California, is a remote tutoring company. It designs an educational support system platform that offers live help, essay review, real-time feedback, and intervention tools for students and teachers. The platform aims to provide personalized learning support, connecting students with certified educators who can provide contextualized feedback and guide them towards a deeper understanding of academic concepts.
Niche
Series C in 2020
Niche.com Inc. operates an online platform that helps users discover and research schools, neighborhoods, and companies across the United States. Founded in 2002 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the platform provides detailed reviews, analyses, and rankings for K-12 schools, colleges, graduate schools, and various neighborhoods. Utilizing rigorous analysis of public data sets and millions of user reviews, Niche produces comprehensive profiles and report cards, enabling users to make informed decisions when comparing educational institutions and residential areas. The platform aims to simplify the process of researching and enrolling in schools, ensuring transparency and accessibility for consumers.
Guild
Series D in 2019
Guild's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and careers. It offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model.
Genesys Works
Grant in 2019
Genesys Works focuses on creating pathways to career success for high school students from underserved communities. The organization offers an extensive program that includes eight weeks of technical and professional skills training, followed by a year-long paid corporate internship. In addition to work experience, Genesys Works provides college and career coaching, as well as ongoing support for alumni as they navigate their educational journeys. The primary objective is to help students transition from poverty to professional careers, thereby fostering a more productive and diverse workforce. Through meaningful work experiences and impactful relationships, Genesys Works aims to empower youth and enhance their opportunities for future success.
Year Up
Grant in 2019
Year Up is an organization focused on closing the Opportunity Divide for urban young adults by equipping them with essential skills and practical experience. It offers tuition-free, skills-based training programs that prepare participants for professional careers or higher education. Through partnerships with various companies, Year Up provides internships that allow young adults to gain real-world experience while also offering comprehensive job search support. By fostering the development of both hard and soft skills, Year Up empowers its participants to achieve their full potential in the workforce or academic settings.
Futures and Options
Grant in 2019
Futures and Options provides transformative career development opportunities to young people to succeed in college and inspiring them to pursue meaningful careers. They provide paid, mentored internships, and career readiness workshops to high school juniors and seniors.
Enterprise for Youth
Grant in 2019
Enterprise for Youth is to empower young people to prepare for and discover career opportunities. Through Enterprise, youth cultivate their individual interests and potential through training, guidance, and employment experiences in supportive and diverse environments.
Multiverse
Series A in 2019
Multiverse is a technology startup that aims to provide an alternative to traditional university education by focusing on career-oriented apprenticeships. The company develops an EdTech platform designed to match young talent with professional services and digital roles, facilitating applied learning throughout their apprenticeship journeys. This approach not only equips individuals with essential skills but also helps them build social capital and establish strong professional networks. By prioritizing practical experience, Multiverse seeks to empower young people in creating fulfilling careers, thus serving as a viable alternative to conventional academic paths and uninspiring corporate training programs.
Candidly
Series A in 2019
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. It offers individuals and families through every step of the planning, borrowing, and repayment experience.
Creators Match
Series C in 2018
Creators Match Ltd. is a Tokyo-based company established in 2007 that specializes in internet advertisement services. The firm focuses on the planning and production of digital advertisements, including the development of banners, landing pages, and leaflets. Additionally, Creators Match organizes seminars and provides educational materials aimed at enhancing the skills of creators and facilitating platform development for internet advertising companies. By offering a comprehensive suite of services that encompasses product creation, development, education, and digital marketing, the company aims to improve market penetration and increase the efficiency of creators' work, ultimately helping them reach a broader audience.
RaiseMe
Series B in 2018
RaiseMe is a financial aid information and networking platform aimed at improving access to higher education by providing scholarship opportunities. The platform allows students to earn "micro-Scholarships" throughout their high school years, based on individual achievements both in and outside the classroom. This approach addresses the limitations of traditional financial aid systems, which typically award assistance at the end of high school, often too late to influence students' college decisions. By enabling students to accumulate financial aid early, RaiseMe has facilitated the earning of over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from its university partners. This innovative model seeks to enhance educational pathways and support students in their academic pursuits.
Guild
Series C in 2018
Guild's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and careers. It offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model.
Viridis Learning
Venture Round in 2017
Viridis Learning, Inc. is an education technology company specializing in workforce education and human capital solutions for the middle-skill workforce. The company operates a platform that facilitates training, certification, and job placement for individuals seeking to enter, sustain, or advance in middle-skill occupations. Through its human capital technology solution, Viridis, the company addresses skill deficiencies by aligning training programs with the needs of local employers. The training offerings include a variety of courses such as Residential Concrete Specialization, Energy Management and Controls, and Advanced Residential Construction Supervisor, among others. With its base in New York, New York, Viridis Learning aims to enhance the employability of individuals while meeting the demands of employers in the middle-skill labor market.
Viridis Learning
Series A in 2016
Viridis Learning, Inc. is an education technology company specializing in workforce education and human capital solutions for the middle-skill workforce. The company operates a platform that facilitates training, certification, and job placement for individuals seeking to enter, sustain, or advance in middle-skill occupations. Through its human capital technology solution, Viridis, the company addresses skill deficiencies by aligning training programs with the needs of local employers. The training offerings include a variety of courses such as Residential Concrete Specialization, Energy Management and Controls, and Advanced Residential Construction Supervisor, among others. With its base in New York, New York, Viridis Learning aims to enhance the employability of individuals while meeting the demands of employers in the middle-skill labor market.
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