<article>Cloud computing company <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://dealstreetasia.com/tag/salesforce" target="_blank">Salesforce</a> is scouting for acquisitions in the Indian tech cities of Hyderabad and Bengaluru, said <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/salesforce-looks-for-startups-in-bluru/articleshow/56883902.cms" target="_blank">a report</a> in The Economic Times.</article>

Cloud computing company <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://dealstreetasia.com/tag/salesforce" target="_blank">Salesforce</a> is scouting for acquisitions in the Indian tech cities of Hyderabad and Bengaluru, said <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/salesforce-looks-for-startups-in-bluru/articleshow/56883902.cms" target="_blank">a report</a> in The Economic Times.
The US-based firm, which is valued at approximately $54 billion, is keen on acquiring startups in machine learning, deep learning, big data and infrastructure engineering.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a robust startup ecosystem in Hyderabad and Bengaluru,&#8221; Srinivas Tallapragada, president of technology at Salesforce told the newspaper. &#8220;The startup doesn&#8217;t just have to be from Hyderabad, it can be from Bengaluru as well. As long as the talent is there, we will have no problem acquiring the company.&#8221;
Salesforce has been in acquisitive mode recently with 10 of its 45 acquisitions coming in 2016,  according to data tracking platform Crunchbase.
<a style="color: #000080;" href="http://dealstreetasia.com/tag/salesforce-ventures" target="_blank">Salesforce Ventures</a>, the venture capital arm of the NYSE-listed company, could also look at Indian startups for investment. according to the news report it backed at least 30 startups last year.
According to Tallapragada, Salesforce is already in talks with some startups from India for potential investments. The company is looking for companies that use technology to solve specific problems in the areas of healthcare, energy or financial services.
&#8220;We tend to invest in startups which either build on our platform or independent companies which will help the ecosystem through their product,&#8221; he said.
Salesforce in also talks with the Telangana government to work on the TASK (Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge) initiative and T-Hubinitiative, which is the Telangana government-backed startup incubator.
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