Scale Venture Partners

Scale Venture Partners
Company typePrivate
IndustryVenture capital
PredecessorBA Venture Partners
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
HeadquartersFoster City, California, U.S.
ProductsInvestments
Total assetsUS$1.9 billion
Websitewww.scalevp.com

Scale Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in Series A and Series B rounds. Scale has invested in over 380 Cloud, SaaS, and infrastructure companies over the past 20 years. Of these investments, 159 have resulted in exits, including IPOs for companies like Bill.com, Box, DocuSign, HubSpot, RingCentral, Root Insurance, and WalkMe.

Scale believes that innovations in Cloud, AI, machine learning, and data are combining to transform enterprise software and infrastructure through what the company calls "Cognitive Applications".[1] Today, Scale continues to make early investments in markets like DataOps, DevOps, digital health, Fintech, infrastructure, open source, productivity, vertical SaaS, security, and AI-enabled apps.

Scale offers a Scaling Platform that uses executive networks, go-to-market playbooks, private communities, and Scale Studio benchmarks to help startups founder-led growth to a repeatable go-to-market machine.

Scale launched a data-product, Scale Studio, in 2018[2][3] to analyze and benchmark SaaS-metrics “Vital Signs” like: growth, efficiency, churn and burn.

Scale is based in Foster City, California.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Cognitive Applications with Intelligence Inside".
  2. ^ "Scale Venture Partners plans to open up its startup-scaling software platform". SiliconANGLE. 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  3. ^ "Scale Venture Partners closes $400 million fund, launches Scale Studio to help startups benchmark growth". VentureBeat. 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  4. ^ Bhasin, Kim; Clark, Patrick (2017-11-20). "Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2017-11-21.
  5. ^ "Scale Venture Partners Form D". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2015-11-19.