Salesforce agrees to buy Army-tested military logistics startup Rune Technologies

Salesforce said Thursday it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies, a startup whose software helps U.S. military units plan and move supplies in places with little or no internet connection, according to a company announcement. The deal extends Salesforce's push into national-security software under a business line it calls Missionforce, and it is the company's second publicly disclosed acquisition this month.

Rune's platform combines data from military enterprise systems with live information from the field, then keeps functioning when networks are degraded or cut off entirely, syncing back up once connectivity returns. Its models are built to forecast resupply needs, recommend how to allocate equipment, route transportation and let commanders test logistics plans before and during an operation. The company, co-founded in 2024 by David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough with a team that includes military veterans and engineers who previously worked at the defense contractor Anduril, is already running inside the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps, Salesforce said.

Filling in the "edge"

Neither company disclosed a purchase price, and the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's 2027 fiscal year, subject to customary closing conditions. Kendall Collins, president and chief executive of Missionforce and Government Cloud at Salesforce, said the unit already covers enterprise systems and headquarters-level planning for defense customers, and that Rune "extends that work into frontline logistics." Rune's co-founder and chief executive, David Tuttle, described the deal in similar terms, framing it as a way of connecting operational logistics "from the frontline to the enterprise."

Salesforce launched Missionforce roughly a year ago and says the unit has grown 80% year over year, with customers across all six branches of the U.S. military. Independent coverage of Thursday's announcement, including from MarketScreener, described Rune as an "edge-native" provider already helping troops plan supply needs and decide where to deploy resources, and likewise reported that financial terms were not released.

Part of a broader buying spree

Rune follows Salesforce's Oct. 20 announcement of a definitive agreement to buy marketing-software maker Braze for roughly $5.66 billion in enterprise value, paying Braze's Class A shareholders $47.50 a share in cash — a transaction Salesforce also disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission the same day. Both deals come as Salesforce, like rivals such as ServiceNow, buys specialized artificial-intelligence and automation software rather than building every capability in-house, a strategy executives have tied to the company's broader shift toward what it calls "agentic" enterprise software.

"Rune Technologies extends that work into frontline logistics." — Kendall Collins, President and CEO, Missionforce and Government Cloud, Salesforce

For Rune, the deal hands a small, defense-focused startup the distribution and balance sheet of one of the largest enterprise-software companies in the country. For Salesforce, it adds a product already fielded by combat units to a government business that has become one of its faster-growing lines, at a moment when several enterprise-software peers are making similar bets on defense and logistics automation. The companies have not said how many Rune employees will join Salesforce or whether the product will keep its current name after the deal closes.