Sam Ackah-Yensu
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Sam Ackah-Yensu

Investor

Based in London, UK

Sam is an investor for Salesforce Ventures based in London. He is responsible for sourcing and due diligence of investment opportunities across EMEA. Prior to Salesforce, he worked in the TMT team for Deutsche Bank in London, advising clients on M&A and financing.

He holds a Master in Energy Management from ESCP Business School and a Bachelor in International Business with Spanish from Warwick Business School.

Sam grew up in Ghana and France and has also lived in the USA, Spain, and the UK. He is a member of SEO London, a UK-based association, where he volunteers as a mentor to support young people from ethnic minority or low socioeconomic backgrounds for career success in elite industries.


Insights from Sam Ackah-Yensu

Congratulations, Wiz!

On the recent $32B intended acquisition of Wiz by Google Cloud.

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by Nowi Kallen, Kartik Gupta, and Sam Ackah-Yensu

Welcome, Protex AI!

AI-powered workplace safety.

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by Nowi Kallen, Jessica Bartos, and Sam Ackah-Yensu

Welcome, ElevenLabs!

AI audio tools for creators, media, and businesses.

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by Nowi Kallen, Sam Ackah-Yensu, and Jessica Bartos

4 Lessons On Selling AI to Enterprise Customers

Highlights from our AgentForce World Tour event in Paris.

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by Sam Ackah-Yensu, Nowi Kallen, and Tassbieh Hassan

Welcome, PointFive!

More efficient cloud infrastructure.

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by Kartik Gupta, Nowi Kallen, and Sam Ackah-Yensu

From Experimentation to Production: How Global Enterprises are Embracing Generative AI

What we learned at World Tour Paris with portfolio companies Hugging Face and Mistral AI.

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by Sam Ackah-Yensu and Tassbieh Hassan

Welcome, AutogenAI!

Helping more organizations win business with AI.

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by Nowi Kallen, Alexandra Quie, and Sam Ackah-Yensu
Hugging Face team photo

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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by Rob Keith, Emily Zhao, and Sam Ackah-Yensu