Amit Chowdhry | December 15, 2011 | 756 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under John Wookey, Rypple, Salesforce.com, Salesforce.com Successforce

Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has acquired social performance company Rypple. Rypple has raised a total of $13 million in funding. The financial details of this acquisition was undisclosed.

Amit Chowdhry | October 11, 2011 | 839 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Box.net, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, New Enterprise Associates, Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures

Cloud storage company Box.net has raised $81 million in Series D funding from Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Box.net has now raised a total of $162 million. This puts Box.net’s valuation at over $600 million.

Amit Chowdhry | September 28, 2011 | 473 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Aaron Levie, Andreessen Horowitz, Box.net, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Dylan Smith, Emergence Capital, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce.com, Scale Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners

Box.net has raised a new round of $50 million in funding. Investors in this round include Salesforce.com, Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners. Box.net has now raised a total of $128 million. Box.net has 7 million users and 300 million documents are stored on their service. Box.net was founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith in 2005. About 77% of the Fortune 500 uses Box.net’s cloud storage solutions service. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | August 26, 2011 | 634 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple Inc., Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, Steve Jobs

Bloomberg has released an interview with Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff. Benioff shared an anecdote of how Apple chairman Steve Jobs gave him advice about Enterprise Software.

Amit Chowdhry | April 16, 2011 | 573 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Judge Kimberley Prochnau, Matthew Miszewski, Microsoft Corporation, Salesforce.com

Judge Kimberley Prochnau in the King County Superior Court has filed a preliminary injunction against Matthew Miszewski. Miszewski attempted to join Salesforce.com, but this was in violation of his non-compete agreement. Miszewki is prohibited from “working in a marketing role in salesforce.com’s public or commercial sector anywhere in the world.”

Amit Chowdhry | April 7, 2011 | 1,853 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Marc Benioff, Radian6, Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com, Inc. (Public, NYSE:CRM) has bought social media monitoring company Radian6 for $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock. The company will also be given $10 million in stock and $4 million in cash to Radian6′s founders subject to vesting conditions over the next 2 years. Radian6′s software helps clients like Dell, GE, Kodak, etc. monitor hundreds of millions of social media conversations. Salesforce plans on enhancing their software products like Sales Cloud, Chatter, etc.

Amit Chowdhry | March 13, 2011 | 819 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah, General Catalyst Partners, Google Ventures, Hubspot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Matrix Partners, Salesforce.com, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital

Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah founded HubSpot Inc. in 2006 and they have recently raised $32 million in Series D. The funding was provided by new investors Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce.com. Existing investors General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture Partners also participated in this round. HubSpot has raised a total of $65 million thus far.

Amit Chowdhry | February 2, 2011 | 569 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Harrison Metal, Harrison Metal Capital, Manymoon, Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has acquired social productivity company Manymoon for over $25 million. Manymoon’s productivity application is one of the most popular on Google’s application platform. Manymoon had raised a little bit of seed funding in a round by Harrison Metal. Manymoon’s application enables users and businesses to collaborate, organize group projects, and work on tasks/documents through e-mail and other software. About 50,000 businesses use Manymoon’s app. [AllThingsD]