Paul Drews

Paul Drews is a Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures, where he oversees application and infrastructure software investments for a corporate fund that has deployed over $6 billion. Before joining the firm in 2020, he served as a Partner at Tenaya Capital and a Vice President at Battery Ventures. He holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University. Throughout his venture capital career, Drews has backed prominent enterprise technology companies including Databricks, Collibra, and JFrog, while holding board observer positions at startups like Airbyte and Astronomer. His historical portfolio includes notable corporate acquisitions such as VNDLY's sale to Workday and Opsgenie's acquisition by Atlassian. Today, Drews maintains a primary investment focus on data platforms, orchestration tools, and enterprise software-as-a-service solutions.