Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development.
Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in February 1999, Salesforce grew quickly, making its initial public offering in 2004. As of September 2022, Salesforce is the 61st largest company in the world by market cap with a value of nearly US$153 billion. It became the world's largest enterprise software firm in 2022. Salesforce ranked 491st on the 2023 edition of the Fortune 500, making $31,352 million in revenues. Since 2020, Salesforce has also been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.