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.
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
- Employees
- 35000
- Revenue
- 37895000000
- Official website
- www.salesforce.com
- Image
- Salesforce Tower SF 2017 (cropped).jpg
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- official blog URL
- www.salesforce.com/blog
- Commons category
- Salesforce
- inception
- 1999-02-03
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/salesforce
- 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
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Article
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.