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Salesforce

HQ San Francisco, USFounded 1999publicWebsite @salesforce
Composite score
45.0
rank #31 · cuts

#31 Cut. 90.9k employees.

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Head-to-headvs Cresta →vs Unify →
Headcount
90.9k
+1.0%
90d change
+2.7%
Funding events (90d)
0
1 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$10B+
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
—
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
9.4%
low — retention is strong
Average tenure
4.0 yrs
long — sticky culture
Time since last raise
8 mo
recent raise

Hiring flow · Salesforce

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
29,049
+6%
Sales
13,695
+11%
Operations
5,364
+4%
Analyst
5,081
-2%
Support
4,765
+8%
Product
2,599
+5%
Marketing
2,269
0%
Professional Service
2,171
+9%
Other
8,964
—

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. TechCrunch11d ago
    Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to

    Salesforce CRM is mentioned as a system Floqer integrates with to enrich customer data, but is not the focus.

  2. The Verge14d ago
    Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

    Salesforce mentioned as renaming AIForce to SIForce in response to Trump's 'super intelligence' rebrand initiative.

  3. TechCrunchHeadline1mo ago
    Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear

    Article is primarily about Salesforce's new Koa reasoning model and its competitive advantages over frontier labs.

  4. TechCrunch2mo ago
    AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

    Salesforce is actively in acquisition talks with Listen Labs for ~$2B; central to the article's narrative about the funding round collapse.

  5. TechCrunch2mo ago
    Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

    Salesforce is named as a key enterprise software platform that Arga builds training environments for.

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Events

Funding · post ipo debt · $25B
8mo ago

Score history

2026-10-19
45.0
rank #31
2026-10-12
41.9
rank #30
2026-10-05
48.7
rank #27
2026-09-28
31.8
rank #32
2026-09-21
32.8
rank #29
2026-09-14
28.0
rank #37
2026-09-07
28.7
rank #30
2026-08-31
25.8
rank #42
2026-08-24
28.4
rank #42
2026-08-17
24.8
rank #43
2026-08-10
10.3
rank #42
2026-08-03
14.1
rank #43