Shaping an Efficient Growth Strategy: GTM Strategies For 2025
5 GTM recommendations from leaders within the Salesforce Ventures portfolio.
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Emily Zhao
Principal
Based in San Francisco, CA
Emily is a principal at Salesforce Ventures focused on AI/ML in addition to spending time across developer tooling, cybersecurity, vertical SaaS, and health tech. She joined Salesforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and recently helped launch its $500M Generative AI fund and led several investments in the fund, including Hugging Face, RunwayML, Anthropic, Cohere, and others.
Before joining Salesforce Ventures, Emily was an investor at Avenir Growth Capital, a venture-growth fund based in New York, where she spent most of her time on vertical SaaS, health tech, and application software. Before Avenir, Emily was an associate in the Private Equity group at Blackstone and invested in corporate buyout transactions. She started her career at JPMorgan and holds a BA in Economics and Art History from Dartmouth.
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Welcome, Hugging Face!
We are excited to announce that we are leading the Series D round in Hugging Face, who has built the largest and most important open source community in AI today
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Welcome, Protect AI!
Announcing our investment in Protect AI, a category creator defining the MLSecOps space with a platform that addresses the security challenges faced by AI and ML systems.
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Welcome, Runway!
Announcing our investment in Runway, a pioneer in democratizing AI tools for a new generation of storytelling and content creation.
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Welcome, Cohere!
Our investment in Cohere, which provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API.
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Welcome, Anthropic!
Our investment in Anthropic, an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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