The company behind Salesforce
Salesforce
Salesforce's CRM is made by Salesforce, Inc., a listed company that sells sales, service, marketing and data software to businesses and also owns Slack. It earns money mostly from subscriptions and support: $10.8 billion of the $11.3 billion revenue it reported for the quarter that ended in July 2026.
Read on Oct 7, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Salesforce at a glance
- Chief executive
- Marc Benioff
- Founded
- 1999
- Based in
- San Francisco, California
- Team
- 83,334 people
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
Salesforce's CEO and founders
The people Salesforce names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there.
Company details
- Ownership
- Publicly traded. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CRM, as its annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission states. sec.gov
- Founded
- 1999 salesforce.com
- Based in
- San Francisco, California salesforce.com
- Team
- 83,334 employees across the whole company as of January 31, 2026, according to its annual report sec.gov
- Partner program
- Salesforce Partner Program with a consulting track and an ISV track for companies that sell apps on AgentExchange. ISVs pay Salesforce a share of net revenue; consultants' benefits include referral incentives. No rates are published on the page. salesforce.com
Salesforce on social media and the web
- Blog · salesforce.com
- Changelog · salesforce.com
- Community · trailhead.salesforce.com
- Status page · status.salesforce.com
- Careers · salesforce.com
Only accounts Salesforce links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
Salesforce news and launches
- Sep 15, 2026Salesforce Unveils AIforce, Bringing the Full Power of Its Platform to Any Interface
- Sep 15, 2026Announcing Koa: Salesforce’s First CRM Reasoning Model, Built on NVIDIA Nemotron
- Sep 15, 2026Siemens and Salesforce Deepen AI Partnership to Redefine Industrial Sales and Service
- Aug 26, 2026Salesforce and Anthropic Announce Claudeforce: The #1 AI Meets the #1 AI CRM
Questions about Salesforce the company
Who is the CEO of Salesforce?
Marc Benioff is Salesforce's chair, CEO & Co-Founder, according to salesforce.com, as read on Oct 7, 2026.
Who founded Salesforce?
Marc Benioff and Parker Harris are named as founders of Salesforce, which was founded in 1999.
Is Salesforce funded by investors?
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CRM, as its annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission states. Its money comes from the listed company, not from rounds of its own.
Who owns Salesforce?
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CRM, as its annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission states.
Where is Salesforce based?
Salesforce gives its base as San Francisco, California.
How many people work at Salesforce?
83,334 employees across the whole company as of January 31, 2026, according to its annual report.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 7, 2026. Facts come from Salesforce’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.