Monday, October 01, 2007

CIO: Fund to Invest $25M in Salesforce.com Startups

"Salesforce.com has launched a US$25 million investment fund to encourage the development of new applications using its Force.com hosted development platform.

The fund, created with investment companies Bay Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, will make investments of $500,000 or more in start-up companies using Force.com, the companies announced Monday.

Salesforce.com refers to Force.com as its "platform as a service." It allows companies to build add-ons to Salesforce.com's hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software, or entirely new hosted applications, using pre-built database, logic and workflow services from Salesfore.com."

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