Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software firm based in San Francisco, California. The company offers applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, and application development.
Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in March 1999, Salesforce experienced rapid growth and went public in 2004. As of September 2022, it ranks as the 61st largest company globally by market capitalization, valued at nearly US$153 billion. In 2022, it became the world's largest provider of enterprise applications. Salesforce ranked 120st on the 2024 Fortune 500 list, generating $31.352 billion in revenue. Additionally, since 2020, Salesforce has been included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.