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▶ 33:03 · $ARTERA · Benioff: Artera AI prostate cancer diagnostics got FDA clearance; expanding to breast cancer; in Time Ventures
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Marc Benioff Predicts Half of Conversations Will be With AI Agents Next Year

2025-08-29 · 14 company · 6 thematic
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marc benioff

Marc Benioff has been CEO of Salesforce for 26 years, growing it from $4M to $41B in revenue. He also runs Time Ventures, a personal venture fund, and is an active investor in AI-first companies like You.com and Artera.

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“another company called Artera which is an AI first company and that company is doing prostate cancer diagnostics got just got an FDA clearance. It's about to do breast cancers do other ones and these are in my private venture portfolio you…”
—marc benioff
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