Top Salesforce Acquisitions of All-Time-Updated 2021

Salesforce is growing at an inconceivably quick rate. The cloud computing company is on a quest to recognize gaps in their existing portfolio and fill them lightning fast. 

In the year 2016, Salesforce has acquired 12 companies, focusing on building the platform of AI capabilities, known as Einstein. 

Since then, Salesforce has consistently made acquisitions across the diverse range, for years. 

In this post, we will discuss the topmost acquisitions by price in Salesforce history.

Slack:

Acquisition Date: Dec 1st, 2020

Purchase Price: $27.7B

One-line Pitch: As mentioned on Slack’s official website, “Make work-life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Slack is the collaboration hub that brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done.”

Why did Salesforce buy them?

Salesforce has been looking to strengthen its vision for the social enterprise. In the past several years, the word acquisition has become the synonym of Salesforce figuratively. But, nothing had made this deal successful until now.  This acquisition is the result of an increase in the demand for virtual sales and services, which are imperative in the present COVID-19 pandemic. This acquisition will also smoothen work from anywhere culture for businesses as well as users.

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