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Scale
Defence · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2016
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
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Worldmodeldata raises £7M seed to build AI's scarcest resource: gameplay data
Jul 6, 2026
Market map
Generative AI startups
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US National Security & Defense Market Map
Market map
World models, physical AI, robotics general intelligence
Scale mafia
Startups founded by Scale alumni
Former Scale employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Akshat BubnaUnited States
Steven HaoUnited States
Barrett WoodsideUnited States
Connor HeggieUnited States
Brandon GUnited States
David HeffernanUnited States
Adarsh KulkarniUnited States
Anthony KrivonosUnited States
Nikhil MathihalliUnited States
Pranav PillaiUnited States
Jeff AndersUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Scale has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Scale's talent
Dealroom maps Scale's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$905k patent portfolio · 13 active families
Where Scale concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Scale and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Scale's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Scale appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Scale
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Scale on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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
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