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Salesforce Ventures retweeted
Arena has raised a $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation.
We are using this momentum to evaluate agentic utility in real workflows from every economically valuable industry on Earth.
We seek to give everyone universal and frictionless access to the best intelligence. The @arena platform has 10s of millions of monthly users doing complex coding and agentic work tasks. We have gone way beyond human preference, and most of our tokens go to deep, single threaded workflows with dozens of turns where we can evaluate agents while humans are in their true flow state. And we make leaderboards by observing whether they get their jobs done. This is how benchmarks should be: representative of actual human value, so we incentivize AI to benefit humanity.
Today, we are releasing one of the most exciting developments in the history of our platform. The Arena Alignment Index. In observing how humans collaborate with agents, we have witnessed that in a surprisingly large fraction of cases, agents are attempting to deceive users or take unauthorized actions beyond what the user intended or permissioned. Agents are deleting files and lying to users about what they did or didn’t do. The longer conversations go, the higher the probability that an agent will violate alignment. The results are really striking; see the plot below. And because this represents in-the-wild usage, the probability that those of us reading this have experienced some form of misalignment from our agents is nearly 100%. And we may not even have noticed.
This is exactly why it’s important to have a neutral 3rd party that is evaluating AI alignment on the distribution of actual user-agent interactions. Arena is excited to step into that role.
We are also incredibly grateful for the incredible and experienced investors backing our vision. Our Series B is co-led by @lightspeedvp and @khoslaventures with participation from @SalesforceVC, @01Advisors, @DellTechCapital and @endvr_catalyst. This round includes support from our existing investors @a16z, @felicis, @amppublic, @QuantumLightVC, @thehousefund, and others.
Which brings me to the real headline: we're hiring, across ML, product engineering, design, marketing, BD, and more. If evaluation and alignment at the frontier is your thing, and you’re looking for an environment with exceptional research and engineering, come join us. Job board link in @arena’s bio and in the thread below
LFG (safely)!
Today, we're announcing our Series B: $200M at a $3.1B valuation, and the release of Arena's Alignment Index.
AI is advancing faster than our ability to evaluate it. The world needs a neutral third party to measure how safe and aligned AI actually is once it's in the hands of real people. That's the role Arena is stepping into today.
The Alignment Index is built from real-world agent traces, starting with three signals: Unauthorized Action, False Attribution, and Deceptive Completion, with results for over 20 frontier models launching today.
Hear more from our CEO @ml_angelopoulos below, and read the full breakdown, and more details about our company growth in thread.
This funding will allow us to go further on safety signals, agentic capabilities, and modalities. It will also allow us to grow the company to match the scale of our mission. Today, we’re still a nimble team of 90, and we're looking for people to join us across research, product, engineering, and more. Come build with us.
As AI gets more capable and autonomous, understanding how well it can safely and effectively work for people only matters more. That's what Arena is built to measure and advance.
Thank you to our community, our investors, and everyone building with us!
Take a look at our open roles if you want to join us (link in bio).
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
Numeral has raised a $100M Series C, led by Insight Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Uncork, Y Combinator, FCVC, and Geodesic.
This brings our total funding to $157M.
@numeral solves U.S. sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance for 3,500+ global businesses, trusted by companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza.
We’re building the future of tax -- where AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance come together in one system.
Since starting the business in 2023, we’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, while expanding into new industries including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale.
There is a lot of work in front of us. Sales tax is more dynamic than ever, with states like California implementing new taxes on software and more states using AI for enforcement.
We are hiring across the org from engineering to product, sales, and marketing. And we’ve just opened our new office in NYC. If you are looking for what’s next, I’d love for you to take a peek at our careers page.
Excited for the year ahead. And humbled to be working with investors like @insightpartners, @rebeccaliudoyle, @SalesforceVC, @katiessschwartz, @ZKokosa, @MayfieldFund, @SPangulur, @benchmark, @chetanp, @ycombinator, @gustaf, @uncorkcap, @susanwliu, @GeodesicCap, @arvindayyala, @FundersClub, @mittal, @mantisVC, @AlexPallNY, @ShaanVP, @lennysan, @moizali, @ringmybeller, @khency6, @asturnerr, @maariabajwa and so many others.
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer.
We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers.
The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation:
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Salesforce Ventures retweeted
🦄 Delighted to announce @EmeraldAI_'s $150 million Series A round, valuing us at more than $1 billion with over $220 million raised to date! Read more in The New York Times: nytimes.com/2026/08/25/busin…
📢Read our full announcement: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
📺Watch our launch on CNBC Squawk Box: cnbc.com/video/2026/08/25/em…
🔗And dive deeper at our website: emeraldai.co/
⚡Emerald AI is transforming AI data centers into flexible grid allies to unlock 100+GW of power for AI while protecting energy affordability and reliability for local communities. After 18 months of demonstrations—across five data centers all over the world—we've entered our commercial scaling phase and are now deployed at multi-MW, full data center scale with customers spanning the world's biggest AI pioneers, global data center platforms, and leading power utilities. We're proud to collaborate with @NVIDIA, @Digitalrealty, @EPRINews, and others to launch the world's first power-flexible AI Factory—roughly 100MW in Manassas, Virginia—later this year, creating the blueprint for a new generation of flexible DSX AI infrastructure that will be good citizens to power grids and local communities. We're also honored to partner with @SantaClaraPower on the nation's first Flexible Load Interconnection Program (FLIP) to provide additional power capacity to flexible AI data centers.
🤝We are so grateful to our incredible consortium of investors, co-led by @EnergizeCapital and @DCVC, as well as to the extraordinary syndicate of leading global financial and strategic investors. Emerald now counts 12 Fortune 500 Global companies as our investors. Many thanks to Series A investors including @NVIDIA, @SamsungVentures, @aramcoventures, @Siemens, @SalesforceVC, @GEVernova, @RWE_AG, @jeraventures, @ADI_News Ventures, @SabanciHolding, In-Q-Tel, @radicalvcfund, @EnergyImpact_, @lowercarbon, Marunouchi Innovation Partners, @EmCollective, @johndoerr, The Olayan Group, The Temerty Group, @EarthshotVC, @collectiveGBL, General Catalyst's scout fund, and others.
🚀This funding will be instrumental as we rapidly scale commercially across the United States and around the world. Our vision is simple: secure larger and faster power connections for AI while making sure AI gives back to the communities that host it. At Emerald AI, we believe that the biggest new user of electricity—AI data centers—can also be the grid's greatest ally, and a boon for local communities by protecting energy affordability and reliability. Thank you to all of our customers, partners, investors, and our incredible team (grateful to the leadership team pictured below Ayse Coskun Mansi Shah Aroon Vijaykar Shayan Sengupta as well as to the whole fantastic team)—this has already been the journey of a lifetime, and we're just getting started
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
We have raised $150M in oversubscribed Series A funding at a $1B valuation to scale power-flexible AI data centers, and turn them into grid assets that will lower costs and increase reliability in their communities.
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Salesforce Ventures retweeted
📈 Standard Metrics 🇺🇸 (@metrics_co) raised $20M Series B, backed by Salesforce Ventures 🇯🇵 (@SalesforceVC).
Standard Metrics is a financial platform for startups and investors, founded in 2020.
ALT Standard Metrics is a financial platform for startups and investors, founded in 2020. It has raised $49.5M across 3 funding rounds, most recently a $20M Series B in August 2026, from investors including Spark Capital, Gaingels and Soma Capital. Standard Metrics has raised $20M in a Series B round, backed by Salesforce Ventures, announced 2026-08-24. Wealth & Investing · San Francisco, United States · founded 2020 · 126 employees · $49.5M raised to date. Seedtable Score 76 out of 100, built from last funding amount 58, funding recency 100, total funding 54, location 93, investor backing 100, team size and growth 50. Data via Seedtable — discover, score and track 105.1K startups.
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that helps build businesses.
Apps built on Lovable now get 900M visits every month, and we’ve quadrupled ARR in the last 12 months.
Since we started, Lovable has become the place where founders create million dollar businesses, business leaders spin up new product lines, and people inside companies rewire workflows and build tools that fit their exact needs, typically at a fraction of what software used to cost.
There’s a lot more to do.
We will create the most intuitive platform to build and run a business.
That means:
- Understanding what success looks like for you, then helping you achieve it. Not only ensuring your software works but also that you can attract customers, improve workflows, and grow your company.
- Deeper integrations that work with your existing tech stack so you can build the interface to your entire business across sales, ops, marketing, finance, etc.
- Becoming the safest platform to build and run your business on, which means secured code by default and that you get help to make safe decisions. As you build, the platform carries more of the security weight, spotting risks and helping you close them, so you can move fast without needing to become a security expert.
- Staying model-independent and orchestrating the best models for every task so you don’t have to. We’ll continue to absorb the complexity of evaluating and teaching models to route to the best ones in the background, to minimize cognitive load for our users.
As more people depend on Lovable, the quality standards our team is driving increase every single day.
We’re growing the team with people with a founder mindset: curious, ambitious, and who think end to end. Model training, product geniuses, infrastructure tinkerers, and security are the priority.
The world is full of ambitious people with deep knowledge of problems worth solving. Very few of them have historically had the power to act on them. Our ambition is to give people that power, and then help them achieve more than they thought possible.
Thank you to everyone who has followed along our journey. Thank you to @MenloVentures for leading, the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by @eqt) for co-leading, and all of the new and returning investors who recognize our global ambitions and will help make them a reality.
We have made a lot of progress but we are nowhere close to done, it’s still day zero.
See our blog: lovable.dev/blog/series-c
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
What most impresses me about Anthropic (besides unprecedented revenue growth) is their enterprise hat trick: the best model (Claude), the best coding agents (Claude Code), & the best productivity tool (Cowork). Salesforce is proud to be an early investor, customer, and partner.
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
We've raised $500M at a $10B valuation
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Salesforce Ventures retweeted
We’ve raised an additional $40 million in our Series A Extension at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by DST Global and Salesforce Ventures, to launch Resolve AI Labs, focused on building the domain-specific models and agentic systems required to run software in production.
Leading the lab is Dhruv Mahajan, who most recently led post-training for large-scale Llama foundation models at Meta.
Foundation models alone won’t cut it. Production environments demand purpose-built models, domain-specific post-training, rigorous evaluation, and agentic systems designed for operational accuracy.
That’s why we built Resolve AI Labs.
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
We just raised a $45M Series B at a $500M valuation led by @a16z and @SalesforceVC to build the knowledge infrastructure for AI
RT @SalesforceVC: Announcing our investment in @upwindsecurity🤝
Upwind uses eBPF for runtime-first cloud security —proving which vulnerab…
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
Salesforce Ventures is proud to have fully deployed its $1B AI fund into innovators reshaping the enterprise landscape. From pioneering robotics and energy tech to backing generational leaders like @AnthropicAI and @elevenlabs, enduring partnerships is our focus. Stay tuned!
Our 2025 Year in Review is live 🚀
✅ 44 new investments
✅ 30 follow-on investments
✅ 20+ M&A exits
✅ $1B AI Fund fully deployed
✅ New focus areas in robotics, defense, & energy
Explore our full Year in Review: salesforceventures.com/sfv-2…
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
X turned into a blogging platform and I caved.
In my defense, @AnthropicAI 's Series G and crossing $14B in run-rate revenue felt worth more than 280 characters, so it's for a good cause 😎
A lot of people don’t know this but @SalesforceVC has been an investor in Anthropic since the Series C back in early 2023 and we’ve doubled down every single round including this most recent one. Many may think investing at the Series C was a no-brainer, but this was before neolabs raising at multi-billion valuations was a common occurrence. Anthropic is THE canonical success story that has paved the way for this archetype of startup journey, going from research to successful commercial products that can capture billions of dollars of value.
In honor of their fundraise, today we published a deep dive on our journey with Anthropic. My article with @pdrews unpacks the behind-the-scenes around how we made the decision to double down every single round.
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
Huge news! We’ve completed our $200M Series D funding round and acquired Battle Road Digital, two major steps towards building the unified command operating system our military needs.
Learn more here: hubs.ly/Q03-z8yS0
Salesforce Ventures retweeted
