Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies, a startup that builds AI software for military logistics and sustainment. Salesforce announced the deal on its newsroom on October 29, 2026, and said Rune will become part of Missionforce, the business unit it set up last year to sell to national security and defense agencies.
Salesforce did not put a price on the deal in its announcement. Resilience Media reported that Salesforce is paying $375 million in cash and stock, and TechCrunch repeated that figure on October 30, adding that Salesforce did not respond to its request for comment. Salesforce called Rune its most significant national security acquisition to date.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2027, subject to customary closing conditions. Salesforce said Rune's technology will be combined with Missionforce's existing products, and that units already using Rune in the field will see their decisions flow into the enterprise systems the services run on Salesforce without custom integration work.
What Rune built
Rune's main product is TyrOS, which the company describes as an operating system for military sustainment. It pulls together data on inventory, personnel, equipment and transport options, and uses AI, predictive analytics and optimisation models to forecast demand and resupply needs and to recommend how resources and vehicles should be routed. According to Rune's website, TyrOS can run on a single device or on a data centre server, and is paired with TyrSense tags and sensors and an Autonomy Development Kit for coordinating autonomous resupply. A tool called Saga acts as an agentic logistician that answers questions in natural language.
The design point is the battlefield, where connectivity is often jammed or missing. Salesforce described these as DDIL settings, meaning denied, degraded, intermittent or limited networks. Rune's software keeps working offline and syncs with headquarters systems once a connection returns. Rune says it has used TyrOS in large exercises with the Army and Marine Corps, including Balikatan 2026, Project Convergence Capstone 6 and Pegasus Charge 3.
“We built Rune Technologies to build and deliver modern technologies and capabilities for our military sustainers at the front lines, where they need to make critical battlefield decisions even without reliable connectivity.”
Why Salesforce is buying
Salesforce frames defense operations in three layers: enterprise systems of record at headquarters, a strategic planning layer, and the operational edge where frontline units act. It says Missionforce already serves as the system of record for the first two across the U.S. military and allied forces, and that Rune covers the third. In practice, that means personnel status, maintenance work, purchasing and sustainment plans would stay in one record whether a unit is in garrison, deployed forward or operating under emissions control.
The defense business has been growing quickly. Salesforce said that one year after Missionforce launched, its defense business is growing 80% year over year, with customers in all six branches of the U.S. military. Its largest recent win is a 10-year U.S. Army contract with a ceiling of $5.6 billion to modernise operations. TechCrunch noted that Rune's frontline data would push Missionforce beyond back-office planning into support for operations in the field.
Kendall Collins, president and CEO of Missionforce and Government Cloud at Salesforce, said the company was doubling down on national security, and that Rune extends Missionforce's work into frontline logistics with agent-powered tools at the tactical edge.
The founders and the funding
David Tuttle, Rune's CEO, and Peter Goldsborough, its chief technology officer, started the company in 2024 after working at defense contractor Anduril. Salesforce said the team includes military veterans and senior engineers. Washington Technology reported that the company is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and that it works with Palantir on automated logistics as part of Palantir's startup fellowship.
In July 2025 Rune raised a $24 million Series A led by Human Capital, an earlier backer of Anduril, with Pax VC and Washington Harbour Partners joining. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Point72 Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital and Forward Deployed VC also took part, according to Washington Technology. TechCrunch put Rune's total funding at $30 million, named IQT, the CIA-backed venture group formerly called In-Q-Tel, among its investors, and cited PitchBook data valuing the company at $127 million after the Series A. If the reported price is correct, Salesforce is paying close to three times that valuation little more than a year later.
A busy year of deals for Salesforce
Rune is the latest in a long run of Salesforce purchases in 2026. TechCrunch listed its agreement to buy AI agent platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion, its $1.2 billion purchase of Qualified, and its agreement to buy Listen Labs. Rune is different from those deals, which centre on sales, marketing and customer service software: it takes Salesforce further into defense, a market it entered with the launch of Missionforce in 2025.
