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Scale
Accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data
At a glance
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Defence
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Analysis
Revolut is 21% of Index Ventures’ $22.9B in estimated holdings
Aug 30, 2026
News
Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to rebuild after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal
Aug 17, 2026
News
Index Ventures raises $2B in fresh capital, lifting total to $3.5B across seed, venture and growth
Jul 31, 2026
News
Scale AI names ex-Google Cloud COO deSouza as CEO after $14.3B Meta bet
Jul 30, 2026
Market map
The Humanoid Robot Race
Apr 9, 2026
Market map
Generative AI startups
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Scale.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A8 investors entered at this stage
Justin Kan- GBGreg Brockman
Nat Friedman- ISIlya Sukhar
Charlie Cheever
Accel- GRGuillermo Rauch
- AVArena Ventures
Series B and later25 investors entered at this stage
WCM Investment Management
Qualcomm Ventures
Cisco Investments
Tiger Global
Dragoneer Investment Group
Greenoaks Capital Partners- KSKevin Systrom
Durable Capital Partners
Elad Gil- SVServiceNow Ventures
Intel Capital
Spark Capital- AVAMD Ventures
Meta
Coatue Management
DFJ Growth
Nvidia
Wellington Management- DHDrew Houston
- MKMike Krieger
Amazon
Adam D’Angelo
Thrive Capital
Founders Fund
Index Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Scale employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MOModalEst. 2021
Akshat BubnaUnited States
CACognition | Devin AIEst. 2023
Steven HaoUnited States
POPositronEst. 2023
Barrett WoodsideUnited States
UNUnifyEst. 2023
Connor HeggieUnited States
Brandon GUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
13 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Scale was the backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Scale's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Scale deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Scale's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Scale on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Scale on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.