Salesforce company profile
- CEO
- Marc R. Benioff
- Employees
- 83,334
- Headquarters
- Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Software - Application
- IPO date
- 23 Jun 2004
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US79466L3024
Website:salesforce.com
About the company
Salesforce, Inc. is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, dedicated to connecting businesses and their clientele on a global scale. At its core, the Customer 360 platform empowers organizations to create seamless, integrated experiences for their customers. The company's extensive suite of services encompasses a wide array of functionalities: Sales: Tools designed to manage sales pipelines, track leads, forecast opportunities, extract data-driven insights through analytics, and streamline the creation of quotes, contracts, and invoices. Service: Capabilities enabling companies to deliver highly personalized, trustworthy, and scalable customer support. Platform: A versatile development environment, featuring intuitive drag-and-drop tools, that allows businesses of diverse sizes, locations, and industries to build tailored applications, thereby strengthening customer relationships. Learning: An online educational platform providing accessible training to acquire sought-after Salesforce skills. Slack: A comprehensive system for team collaboration and engagement. Marketing: Solutions for strategizing, personalizing, and optimizing individual customer marketing journeys. Commerce: Offerings that unify customer interactions across various channels, including mobile, web, social media, and physical retail stores. Tableau: A complete analytics solution addressing a broad spectrum of enterprise data analysis needs. MuleSoft: An integration platform designed to unlock and connect data residing across an organization's various systems. Salesforce's offerings cater to numerous sectors, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing, among others. Beyond its core products, the company also provides professional services and conducts both in-person and online courses to certify customers and partners in the architecture, administration, deployment, and development of its services. Its solutions are distributed through direct sales channels, as well as a network of consulting firms, systems integrators, and other strategic partners. Established in 1999, Salesforce, Inc. maintains its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Employees
Salesforce had about 83,334 employees at the end of fiscal year 2026 (31 January 2026), by its annual report. That is 9.0% more than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Salesforce
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 81.5% of Salesforce's shares on 30 June 2026, 2,665 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about Salesforce
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