Claudine Emeott came to venture investing through an unusual path, studying East Asian Studies and urban planning before working on economic development in Beijing and Kathmandu, then joined Salesforce Ventures in 2017 to build its impact investing strategy from scratch rather than step into an existing one. Today she focuses on the physical infrastructure behind AI and energy, backing companies like Crusoe, Antora, Base Power, Emerald AI, Pano, and WeaveGrid, while pushing for founders with direct, lived experience in the problems they're solving and applying a measurement-heavy approach to tracking impact across the portfolio.