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Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, has invested in You.com

• ByStartupStory     |    November 10, 2021

You.com, a startup aiming to compete with Alphabet Inc’s Google by providing a more personalised search engine, disclosed a $20 million investment lead by Salesforce.com Inc Chief Executive Marc Benioff’s venture fund on Tuesday. Due to Google’s domination of internet searching in most of the world, venture capitalists have shied away from supporting competitors for years.

“We’re at a critical inflection point in the internet’s history, and we must take steps to restore trust online,” Benioff said in a press release. He called You.com “the future of search”.Benioff’s involvement with the startup includes the transfer of the You.com domain name, which he has owned since the 1990s.

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