Samuel Ackah-Yensu

London, UK

Bio

Professional summary

Sam Ackah-Yensu is a London-based investor at Salesforce Ventures investing across multiple stages in EMEA, with a focus on AI infrastructure, AI applications and cybersecurity. His firm bio says he has been directly involved with Salesforce investments including Black Forest Labs, Lovable, Legora, ElevenLabs, Hugging Face, Mistral, Covecta, Protex AI, PointFive, AutogenAI, Convergence and Wiz. Before Salesforce Ventures, he worked in Deutsche Bank’s M&A TMT team in London.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

Black Forest LabsLovableLegoraElevenLabsWiz

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

Salesforce VenturesInvestor
Deutsche BankM&A TMT

Education

ESCP Business SchoolMaster in Energy Management
Warwick Business SchoolBachelor in International Business with Spanish

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