Rob Keith is a Partner at Salesforce Ventures, which he joined in 2014 to focus on early-stage to growth-stage investments in Vertical SaaS, Security, and AI / ML companies. In 2019, Rob relocated to Sydney to help launch Salesforce Ventures’ Australian and broader APAC investment arm. After moving back to the US in 2021, Rob returned his focus to North American and emerging market opportunities.
Since joining Salesforce Ventures, Rob has helped lead investments in nCino, DocuSign, Highspot, MuleSoft, Forter, Airwallex, GO1, Drata, AppOmni and Protect AI among others.
Before Salesforce Ventures, Rob was in Morgan Stanley’s Technology Banking Group, advising clients on M&A and capital raising including Veeva Systems, Splunk, eBay, and Spotify. Rob graduated from the University of Southern California and hails from San Diego, CA.
“There are no brilliant ideas. Only brilliant execution.”
Insights from our event with Edward Norton and Godard Abel.
“We were not planning to do a formal round this year, but the opportunity to partner with Salesforce Ventures and its parent company Salesforce made this an opportunity we were not going to miss.”
Insights from our generative AI panel at Salesforce Ventures’ annual CEO summit.
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
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.
Our investment in Cohere, which provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API.
Excited to announce our investment in Blockdaemon, which powers the blockchain economy with an easy-to-use, secure, and scalable node management platform.
Salesforce Ventures announces its investment in Drata, a company that automates and eases the burden of security and compliance and helps companies prove they’re trustworthy.
