Salesforce, Inc., is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides software for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, agentic AI, and application development. Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in March 1999, Salesforce grew quickly, making its initial public offering in 2004. As of March 2026, Salesforce has a market capitalization of approximately US$186 billion. For fiscal year 2026, the company reported record annual revenue of $41.5 billion, a 10% increase from the previous year. The company is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. Wikipedia