Salesforce Ventures

Salesforce is an American cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management (CRM) services and a suite of enterprise applications for sales, service, marketing, commerce, analytics and integration. Its products and brands include Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Tableau and MuleSoft, and it offers AI capabilities such as Einstein and agentic AI features. The company operates a multi-tenant cloud platform and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Vanguard is an investment company offering mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, brokerage services, individual retirement accounts, rollovers, cash-management products, and investment advice. The company states that its services are organized around investor goals, balance, costs, and discipline. In the cited engineering presentation, Vanguard's cash program describes modernizing a cash ledger by running data, producer, and consumer migrations in parallel and exposing legacy code to AI tools through an MCP server.

Vals AI is an AI benchmarking and evaluation company that independently tests models on economically valuable real-world tasks, including software, finance, law, cybersecurity and other frontier-risk areas. It develops and runs its own evaluations, publishes benchmark results and model comparisons through the Vals Index and specialized benchmarks such as finance-agent, Excel-modeling, tax-agent and legal evaluations, and reports performance alongside cost, latency and token usage. The videos also describe Val Smith, an internal-tooling product that evaluates models against a firm's actual GitHub work to help choose models and reduce token spending.

agent.ai was an AI-agent marketplace launched by HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah. It was paired with an agent builder designed to let non-developers combine deterministic and non-deterministic agents; the builder was later absorbed into HubSpot as a product.

Certified AI Partners is an AI consulting company that serves as an outsourced AI department for businesses, particularly companies with more than $10 million in annual revenue. It begins with an AI Opportunity Assessment that maps real workflows by interviewing the people doing the work, identifies bottlenecks and repetitive tasks, and ranks potential projects by hours and dollars. The company then builds automations, AI agents, and dashboards, trains the client’s team, and reports monthly results through an ROI dashboard. Its stated engagement model covers strategy, implementation, enablement, and proof of returns, with implementation organized around a 90-day plan.