Salesforce has supplied additional funding for the text messaging platform operator, which is also backed by Sony, Live Nation and Twilio.

Salesforce Ventures, the corporate venture capital subsidiary of enterprise software producer Salesforce, invested $40m in US-based text messaging platform operator Community on Friday.

Community has built an online platform that lets companies and individuals communicate with their customers and audiences through text messaging. Its customers include large and small organisations as well as local community organisers and celebrities.

The company claims to have facilitated more than 3 billion text messages on its platform, and more than 26 million people have…

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