This is particularly important in newer areas like AI, where there are genuine compute constraints and high costs as a result.

It’s very interesting to see Salesforce Ventures leading this round. The company is a leader in SaaS services and so to help upsell more customers to their products, having a solution to make those customers feel more empowered is definitely in their favour. But also, as Salesforce continues to add in more cloud apps for more use cases well beyond sales and marketing, you could imagine them becoming more interested in cloud management and security down the line, too.