President at Salesforce Ventures · Joined 2009
View Live Interactive Profile →John Somorjai helped found Salesforce Ventures in 2009 and has run it as President ever since, building it into one of the largest and most active corporate venture platforms in enterprise software. His official bio credits him with involvement in a broad set of the firm's highest-profile bets, including Auth0, Databricks, DocuSign, nCino, Snowflake, Vlocity, and Zoom - a mix spanning identity, data infrastructure, e-signature, banking software, and communications. The clearest and most unusual proof point among them is Vlocity: Salesforce Ventures backed the industry-cloud software company as an outside investor, and Salesforce itself later acquired it for $1.33 billion in February 2020, a rare case of a corporate VC's portfolio company being absorbed directly by its own parent.