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160Portfolio Exits
44About Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is an angel investor and Chairman and CEO of enterprise cloud computing company, Salesforce.com. He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the co-chairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and served from 2003-2005, overseeing the publishing of critical reports on health care information technology, cybersecurity, and computational sciences. Benioff is also the author of three books, most recently the national best seller Behind the Cloud. Prior to launching salesforce.com, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation and worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division. He founded entertainment software company Liberty Software in 1979 when he was 15 years old. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.
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How The Traditional Venture Capital Pipeline Is ChangingLatestMarc BenioffNews
May 2, 2023
Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff made 150 times that of the median Salesforce employee. Salesforce CEO, co-founder and Chairman Marc Benioff came in at just under $30 million for his total compensation for the 2023 fiscal year, according to documents filed by the vendor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That compensation was 150 times that of the median Salesforce employee – who made $199,130 – according to the San Francisco-based enterprise applications vendor. Salesforce’s 2023 fiscal year ended Jan. 31. And despite leaving the vendor in January, former co-CEO Bret Taylor saw a whopping $26.8 million in total compensation for the fiscal year – 135 times the median employee.
Marc Benioff Investments
160 Investments
Marc Benioff has made160 investments.Their latest investment was inArteraas part of theirSeed VConMarch 3, 2023.
Marc Benioff Investments Activity
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Company |
Amount |
New? |
Co-Investors |
Sources |
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3/21/2023 |
Seed VC |
Artera |
$90M |
Yes |
7 |
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3/7/2023 |
Series A |
Kresus |
$25M |
Yes |
2 |
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2/28/2023 |
Pre-Seed |
Mammoth |
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Yes |
1 |
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4/21/2022 |
Series E |
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4/6/2022 |
Series A |
Date |
3/21/2023 |
3/7/2023 |
2/28/2023 |
4/21/2022 |
4/6/2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round |
Seed VC |
Series A |
Pre-Seed |
Series E |
Series A |
Company |
Artera |
Kresus |
Mammoth |
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Amount |
$90M |
$25M |
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New? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Co-Investors |
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Sources |
7 |
2 |
1 |
Marc BenioffPortfolio Exits
44 Portfolio Exits
Marc Benioffhas44portfolioexits. Their latest portfolio exit wasBrandcast onAugust 31, 2022.
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Exit |
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8/31/2022 |
Acquired |
5 |
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4/23/2022 |
Acquired |
7 |
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1/26/2022 |
Acquired |
13 |
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8/31/2022 |
4/23/2022 |
1/26/2022 |
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5 |
7 |
13 |
Marc BenioffAcquisitions
1 Acquisition
Marc Benioffacquired1 company. Their latest acquisition wasTime Magazine onSeptember 17, 2018.
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Investment Stage |
Companies |
Valuation
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Total Funding |
Note |
Sources |
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9/17/2018 |
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Acquired Unit |
29 |
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9/17/2018 |
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29 |
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