Making the case for an AI Cool Britannia - is Salesforce’s Zahra Bahrololoumi finally going to see her National Skills Platform become reality?

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Another London World Tour gathering for Salesforce and UK CEO for UK and Ireland, Zahra Bahrololoumi is once more making the case for the US firm’s ongoing bet on Britain, currently running at $6 billion between now and 2030:

We are so wholeheartedly behind the UK market. It is the third largest AI market globally, and if we think about the capital that’s attracting, in 2025 alone, that was some $65 billion of VC funding, predominantly driven by AI. Just this year alone, I think we've attracted, as a country, $12.5 billion dollars worth of investment. If you think about that combined with the number of unicorns and start-ups that we're seeing - we've got 10 new unicorns this year alone - it is an eminently investable country and economy.

Salesforce reflects this belief by putting its money where its mouth is, she adds:

We're coming up now to nearly...

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