By Gillian Tett. Originally published in the Financial Times. If you are strolling around downtown San Francisco these days you might notice an imposing superstructure springing up, changing the skyline. This is the new headquarters of Salesforce, the cloud computing company that was founded by Marc Benioff in 1999 and has since exploded at startling speed. [...]
By Caroline Preece. Originally published on CloudPro. Salesforce has set aside a $100 million fund to pour cash into European start-ups. The money will be allocated by the SaaS giant's global corporate investment group, Salesforce Ventures, whose portfolio includes more than 150 start-ups, such as CartoDB, CloudSense, Cloud9 IDE, NewVoiceMedia, Qubit, Universal Avenue and YOUR [...]
By Naomi Morenzoni. Originally published on Medium. Any veteran of Dreamforce knows that our community gives back in a big way. This year was no exception with 1 million books donated to libraries and schools around the world, 3,500 kits packed for Project Night Night to support homeless children, 325 students learning to code on [...]
By Drew Olanoff. Originally published on TechCrunch. Disrupt SF started off with a bang this morning with a fireside chat including Ron and Topher Conway, both investors with SV Angel. TechCrunch founder and CrunchFund investor Michael Arrington peppered them with questions about the landscape of Silicon Valley. They know what they’re talking about, as SV [...]
Originally published in the Independent Ireland. Suzanne DiBianca is at the pointy end of making companies less evil. There's a real push - particularly in the technology sector - to use the wealth created by companies for something better than just buying Ferraris. She heads up the Salesforce Foundation and was one of the first [...]
By David Swan. Published in the Australian. Global cloud computing firm Salesforce may be a $US10 billion tech behemoth but its head of start-up relations Ludo Ulrich says his door is always open to Australian start-ups, as the company looks to tighten its relationship with entrepreneurs Down Under. Mr Ulrich, who previously served as chief [...]
By Kye White. Originally published in StartUpSmart. The Pledge 1% philanthropy program, created by Salesforce and supported by the likes of Atlassian, is well on the way of meeting the goal it set late last year of signing up 500 companies by December. The program sees participating companies volunteer to divert 1% equity, 1% employee [...]
By Ken Yeung. Originally published on VentureBeat. Telecommunications API provider Twilio has committed itself to setting aside 1 percent of its equity to be used to support its nonprofit foundation, Twilio.org, over the next decade. This could generate more than $10 million for the organization. The move comes as part of the 1% pledge that was started [...]
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By David Callahan. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. If you’re attuned to either corporate philanthropy or the tech industry, you’ll know that the Bay Area tech firm, Salesforce, is unusually committed to doing good in the world along with making a profit. Maybe you’ve heard of the “1+1+1” model of philanthropy that founder Marc Benioff embraced [...]