Scale Venture Partners

What is Scale Venture Partners?

Scale Venture Partners is a venture capital firm located at 950 Tower Lane #1150, Foster City, CA 94404, specializing in early to mid-stage investments.

They are particularly interested in technology companies, focusing on a broad spectrum of industries including Software (Web, Marketplace, SaaS, etc.), PropTech, IT & TMT, Media (although not interested in advertising and discretionary consumer sectors), Education, Business Solutions, FinTech & Financial Services, Hardware & Manufacturing, Retail & E-Commerce, Sales & Marketing, IoT & Wearables, A.I. & Big Data, HealthTech & Fitness, Web Security & Privacy, Analytics, Cloud Services & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Future Of Work, Insurance & InsurTech, Logistics & Distribution, Payments, Robotics, Real Estate & Construction, Mobile, Mobility, Nanotechnology, Online Social, Consumer, and focusing on Woman Focused investments.

They show particular enthusiasm for vertical software including domains such as financials, insurance, retail, transportation, construction, and healthcare.

Scale Venture Partners oversee assets under management worth $600,000,000 and generally make investments ranging from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000, with a sweet spot around $10,000,000. Their investment expertise is in leading Series A and Series B rounds, alongside seed investments, positioning themselves as a VC that aids companies transitioning to scalable, market-driven growth, especially after they have signed their first customers. Scale Venture Partners supports portfolio companies by integrating with their operations to streamline go-to-market strategies and processes with their array of proprietary tools, expert advisory networks, and benchmarking data.

They consider themselves pivotal in creating go-to-market 'machines' for intelligent business software markets like DataOps, DevOps, Digital Health, Fintech, Open Source, Productivity, Security, Vertical SaaS or AI-enabled applications.

What they say:

We are an early-stage venture capital firm based in the Bay Area with $2.9 billion in assets under management. We partner with Founders building AI and B2B software, helping them on the journey from Founder-led growth to go-to-market machine. We lead 80% of our investments in Series A and B rounds.

What we look for: We invest in companies that have signed their first customers and are making the journey from Founder-led growth to go-to-market machine. We lead 80% of the Series A and Series B rounds we invest in.Initial checks usually range from $5 million to $50 million, sized to the round and the business. Eighty percent of our investments are lead checks at Series A and B, and we reserve capital to follow on through the life of the company.Scale invests in AI, B2B, and vertical software. The portfolio spans applications, DevTools and infrastructure, and security—Founders applying AI to how businesses actually work. Recent investments include CodeRabbit, GC AI, Bland, Fin, Paraform, and Generalist.

How we help: Scale runs an active community of Founders and senior operators—councils, workshops, events—and makes introductions when you're hiring or selling. Our go-to-market advisory team puts operators who've scaled companies from $1M to $500M-plus in revenue—former CROs, CMOs, and CFOs from Zoom and Harvey—to work on the problems you actually have.