Salesforce announces $1M grant to Indianapolis schools
The grant brings Salesforce’s total giving to Indianapolis Public Schools district to $5.5 million over the past seven years.
The grant brings Salesforce’s total giving to Indianapolis Public Schools district to $5.5 million over the past seven years.
Other tech companies, such as Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc., also signaled layoffs this month.
We [at Salesforce] understand the unique challenges facing downtown urban centers like the Mile Square, including cleanliness and security.
The group hopes to improve civic education in a state that ranks among the bottom nationally when it comes to voter registration and turnout.
IPS is expected to use the money to create sensory-friendly environments for struggling students, peer mentors and professional development sessions on social and emotional learning.
Indianapolis-based tech startup MetaCX, a High Alpha portfolio company, has attracted more than $30 million in investment since the company’s launch in 2018.
Shares in Salesforce experienced their steepest increase in almost two years on Wednesday after the company signaled that demand for business software is holding up despite a broader downturn for major tech firms. About 2,000 Salesforce Marketing Cloud employees are based in Indianapolis.
With the acquisition of British Columbia-based Groundswell Cloud Solutions, GyanSys now has more than 250 employees who work in the firm’s Salesforce practice.
Investors are clamoring for the top provider of cloud-based customer relations management software to prove it can expand beyond its core business. Any misstep is bound to be noticed.
Logik.io, which was launched in February, offers software that helps sales reps and customers secure price quotes in complex sales situations.
MetaCX’s newest round of fundraising brings its total to $31.5 million, including multiple investments from several venture capital organizations.
New Emarsys CEO Joanna Milliken, who starts in her new role Oct. 1, will oversee all of the Austria-based marketing tech company’s activities from Indianapolis. About 150 of the company’s nearly 700 employees are based in central Indiana.
Terminus, which offers a business-to-business platform that helps marketers connect with potential customers, said its acquisition of Boston-based Zylotech is its fifth acquisition to date, and its largest.
Salesforce, which sells customer-management software and has major operations in Indianapolis, joins a small number of companies that have reacted against the Texas law.
A Salesforce decision to permit employees to work remotely even once the pandemic subsides could have long-lasting effects on the downtown office market.
Salesforce said its work-from-anywhere plan offers the company better ways to broaden its workforce to new geographies and new communities beyond “traditional city centers.”
The acquisition announced Tuesday is by far the largest in the 21-year history of Salesforce, which located its Marketing Cloud division in Indianapolis after it acquired ExactTarget in 2013.
Mandolin’s digital platform—designed to help artists, venues and fans connect through live music—has attracted some big-name investors including Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce.
The company leads the market for sales-tracking software, but growth rates have slowed over time.
Lev added 92 employees in 2019, exceeding the goal of 70 new hires that it set when it announced the move of its headquarters to Indianapolis in February 2019.