Salesforce Ventures Launches $100M Japan Trailblazer Fund

salesforceSalesforce Ventures, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM)’s global corporate investment arm, has launched new $100m fund focused on Japanese startups working in the Salesforce ecosystem.

The Japan Trailblazer Fund will provide additional funding and support to Japanese startups delivering unique capabilities to Salesforce customers.
It will allow Salesforce Ventures to strengthen its position as one of the leading foreign corporate venture capital investors in Japan and deepens its commitment to creating the world’s largest ecosystem of enterprise cloud companies.

Salesforce Ventures has supported the Japanese startup community since 2011, investing in 40 innovative companies, including:
– BizReach, an online career networking service,
– freee, an automated online accounting software that syncs with a bank account and automatically categorizes entries to create financial reports,
– Sansan, a market leader in cloud-based business card management and sharing service for organizations in Japan,
– TeamSpirit, a leader in Japanese time tracking and web expense that offers a cloud-based attendance management system and went public in August 2018,
– Terrasky, a public, Japanese Salesforce System Integrator (SI) offering consulting, implementation and support.

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05/12/2018

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