Salesforce to Buy ~$30M-Funded Military AI Firm Rune — SkimNews

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- Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune.
- Rune raised roughly $30 million to develop AI software for military logistics.
- Rune develops military software and hardware for logistics, giving its product portfolio a hardware component beyond AI.
- Missionforce is the year-old Salesforce defense business that the planned Rune acquisition is set to expand.
Why it matters: For Salesforce, Rune is a military-logistics business that raised roughly $30 million, and its planned acquisition is tied to a defense operation only about a year old. The combination expands the scope of Salesforce's defense work with both military software and hardware, alongside the AI logistics software its fundraising targeted.
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