New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to acquire Florida-based Coastal Cloud in an all cash deal of $700 million. Founded in 2012, Coastal Cloud is a leading multi-cloud Salesforce consulting firm, specializing in enterprise-scale transformations.

In October 2025, TCS strengthened its Salesforce practice with its ListEngage acquisition, a Summit Partner known for its Agentforce, Marketing, and Commerce Cloud expertise. With Coastal Cloud, TCS aims to further enhance its Salesforce advisory and business consulting capabilities across verticals globally. This acquisition will add over 400 seasoned professionals with more than 3,000 multi-cloud certifications. Coastal Cloud's customer portfolio includes enterprises across industry verticals. TCS will benefit from getting access to the mid-market customer segment and the synergies it can drive across Coastal and TCS's customer base. To be sure, Cloud Coastal bring AI-led advisory and business consulting capabilities to help customers in Sales, Service, Marketing, Revenue, CPQ, Commerce and Salesforce Data Cloud. Coastal Cloud is led by Eric Berridge, a proven Salesforce veteran who has built and scaled category-leading Salesforce services ventures. Salesforce Ventures has been a strategic investor in this firm. "This acquisition marks a pivotal milestone in advancing our global Salesforce capabilities and accelerating our AI-led transformation agenda. It is another significant step towards realizing TCS's vision of becoming world's largest AI-led Technology Services company," said Aarthi Subramanian, Chief Operating Officer, TCS. Additionally, TCS said that it will continue to pursue the M&A agenda aligned with its core priorities in AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Digital Engineering and Enterprise Solutions. "Together, we can design solutions, modernize complex processes, and unlock new value across industries globally. Importantly, this partnership gives us a stronger platform to grow, inspire and attract the industry's best Salesforce and AI professionals. We remain committed to the relationships we have built over the years, and we look forward to expanding them through this partnership," said Eric Berridge, CEO, Coastal Cloud.

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