M&A Deal Summary

Salesforce Acquires Informavores

On December 31, 2009, Salesforce acquired software company Informavores

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Salesforce’s 4th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Salesforce’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-12-31
Target Informavores
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Salesforce
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Informavores

Cardiff, United Kingdom
Informavores provides Visual Process Manager technology services.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Salesforce

San Francisco, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1999
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees76,453
Revenue 37.9B USD (2025)
DESCRIPTION
Salesforce office in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Salesforce office in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Salesforce is a provider of enterprise cloud computing solutions. The Company's four core services include Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and the Salesforce Platform. Salesforce delivers solutions as a service via all the major Internet browsers and on most major mobile device operating systems. Salesforce was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 65
Sector: Software M&A 4 of 22
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 64
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-08-20 InStranet

Chicago, Illinois, United States

InStranet makes software that's designed to help customers at self-service Web portals, and customer-service agents get better and faster answers to questions and problems.

Buy $32M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-04-21 Jigsaw Data

San Mateo, California, United States

Jigsaw is a leading provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community of 1.2 million members. Jigsaw gives individuals and companies access to business contact information for 21 million business professionals and profiles of 3 million companies. In addition to delivering low-cost and easy access to high-value business information for sales, marketing, recruiting and customer service, Jigsaw provides a variety of cloud-based data acquisition and management services.

Buy $142M