Salesforce
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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, agentic AI, and application development.
OverviewAI-generated
Salesforce is an active company and funder established in 1999. It is located in San Francisco, United States, and operates in the services-prepackaged software industry. The organization is recognized in the Sp 500 and Dow Jones collections. Its stock trades on the NYSE under the ticker CRM.
The company has 35,000 employees. Its fiscal year ends on January 31. Salesforce has reported total revenue of 37,895,000,000. Net profit figures include 18,356,000, 43,428,000, 80,719,000, and 64,474,000. Operating income amounts are listed as 20,309,000, 63,742,000, 115,272,000, and 97,497,000. The entity is incorporated in DE.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Salesforce, Inc.
- Company.logo
- Salesforce.com logo.svg
- Company.image
- Salesforce Tower from Salesforce Park.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the headquarters of Salesforce
- Company.former_name
- Salesforce.com, Inc. (1999–2022)
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.services
- Cloud computing
- Company.revenue
- (2026)
- Company.operating_income
- (2026)
- Company.net_income
- (2026)
- Company.equity
- (2026)
- Company.num_employees
- 83,334 (2026)
- Company.footnotes
- Financials .
- Network service provider.child
- yes
- Network service provider.asn
- 14340
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
CRM- Industry
- Services-Prepackaged Software
- Exchange
- NYSE
- State of incorporation
- DE
- Entity type
- operating
- Fiscal year end
- Jan 31
- Latest filing
- 8-K · 2026-06-02
via SEC EDGAR
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1999
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.431504.7 · ISNI 0000 0004 4904 6413
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software developer
- Part of
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Marc Benioff
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Owned by
- Marc Benioff
- CEO
- Marc Benioff
- Industry
- intelligent agent
- Employees
- 35000
- Revenue
- 37895000000
- Stock exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Official website
- www.salesforce.com
- Image
- Salesforce Tower SF 2017 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- San Francisco
Show 14 more facts
- product or material produced
- software as a service
- official blog URL
- www.salesforce.com/blog
- Commons category
- Salesforce
- topic's main category
- Category:Salesforce
- inception
- 1999-02-03
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/salesforce
- member of
- Business Software Alliance
- social media followers
- 589695
- service status information URL
- status.salesforce.com
- privacy policy URL
- www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/full_privacy
- Stack Exchange site URL
- salesforce.stackexchange.com
- net profit
- 6197000000
- operating income
- 7205000000
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
~27 min read
Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- History
- Services
- Artificial intelligence
- Salesforce Platform
- AppExchange
- Trailhead
- Discontinued
- Operations
- Culture
- Finances
- IT infrastructure
- Acquisitions
- 2006–2015
- 2016–present
- Cybersecurity incidents
- 2007 Phishing attack
- 2022 Heroku OAuth token theft (Salesforce subsidiary)
- 2025 targeted campaigns against Salesforce customers (UNC6040 & UNC6395)
- Controversies
- ‘Meatpistol’ presenters fired at Def Con
- RAICES donation refusal
- 2018 taxes
- Sex-trafficking lawsuit
- Disability discrimination lawsuit in Japan
- Employee layoffs/Matthew McConaughey's salary
- Wrongful termination lawsuit
- 2025 layoffs and CEO declarations
- 2026 AI-focused workforce reductions
- 2026 Company kickoff and ICE controversy
- Salesforce Ventures
- Office locations
- Notes
- References
- External links
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, agentic AI, 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 March 2026, Salesforce has a market capitalization of approximately US$186 billion. For the full fiscal year 2026 (ending January 31, 2026), the company reported record annual revenue of $41.5 billion, a 10% increase year-over-year. The company is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (since 2020) and the S&P 500.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salesforce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.