#angel-investing

#angel-investing

The frontman of the Black Eyed Peas spent the early 2000s driving his pop-rap group into the cultural zeitgeist and plowing some of those earnings into budding tech startups in the Bay Area. He joined one of Twitter's early funding rounds, and he put money into Tesla before Elon Musk became CEO, the musician told SFGATE in a wide-ranging interview at San Francisco's Dreamforce conference on Wednesday.

The stat that women receive less than 2% of VC funding is often cited-but that figure tells only part of the story.

I think they were like 19 and 20 at the time or something. I think I could run this company better if I was doing it and I didn't see how they were going to figure it out.

Salesforce Ventures manages $6.8 billion and has invested $600 million of its $1 billion Generative AI Fund, showcasing their commitment to innovation in AI.