Last month, Salesforce had integrated with Assistly before buying the company, after previously been part of the consortium backing Assistly, which had been founded in 2009.

Salesforce, a US-based enterprise cloud computing company, has acquired for $50m one of its corporate venturing-backed portfolio companies, Assistly, a virtual customer-service help desk that had raised $5.7m in venture funding.

Last month, Salesforce had integrated with Assistly, after previously been part of the consortium backing Assistly, which had been founded in 2009.

The other investors include venture capital firms Bullpen Capital, Index Ventures, Social Leverage and True Ventures, which had backed Assistly’s $3m initial series B round in January.…