Scale Venture Partners is an early-stage

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firm that typically leads

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Series B A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the ...

rounds. Over the last 20 years, Scale has made over 380 investments in

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and Infrastructure companies, with over 159 exits, including IPOs for companies like Bill.com,

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, DocuSign,

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, RingCentral, Root Insurance, and

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. Today, Scale continues to focus on these markets, but believes that the trends in Cloud, AI and

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are combining to transform the entire enterprise stack while expanding the markets' software can address. Scale calls this new megatrend Cognitive Applications and is making early investments in this megatrend in markets like DataOps,

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, Digital Health,

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, Infrastructure,

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, Productivity,

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, Vertical SaaS 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 to analyze and benchmark SaaS-metrics “Vital Signs” like: growth, efficiency, churn and burn. Scale is based in Foster City,

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History

The firm was founded in 2000 as BA Venture Partners, and functioned as the venture capital arm of

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, where it raised its first two funds. In 2007, the firm spun out from Bank of America and changed its name to Scale Venture Partners. Scale's $600 million Fund VII was launched in December 2020.

SaaS & Cloud Investments

Scale invests in enterprise software startups that are between $500,000 - $5,000,000 in annual revenue, within SaaS and Cloud, Scale focuses on markets like: AI & ML,

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, dev-ops, big data and

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for industries that have traditionally been low-tech. Investments of note include: * BigID * Bill.com * Box.com * CircleCI * CloudHealth * DemandBase * Docusign * ExactTarget * Expel *

Forter Forter is a software as a service (SaaS) company that provides fraud prevention technology for online retailers and marketplaces. It has offices in Tel Aviv, London, Singapore, and New York; its headquarters are in New York. History The company ...

* Honeycomb *

Hubspot HubSpot is an American developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service. HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah in 2006. Its products and services aim to provide tools for customer ...

* JFrog *

KeepTruckin Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is a technology company that creates software used by truck companies and a range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and bev ...

* Locus Robotics * Omniture *

OneLogin OneLogin, Inc. is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) provider that develops a unified access management (UAM) platform to enterprise-level businesses and organizations. It was founded in 2009 by brothers Thomas Pedersen and Chri ...

* Papaya Global * PerimiterX * RingCentral *

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* Scout RFP * Socure * Spruce * Treasure Data *

Wrike Wrike, Inc. is an American project management application service provider based in San Jose, California. Wrike also has offices in Dallas, Tallinn, Nicosia, Dublin, Tokyo, Melbourne and Prague. History Wrike was founded in 2006 by Andrew File ...

Scale Studio - SaaS Metrics & Benchmarks

Scale Studio is a free data-product that launched in July 2018 that analyzes financials and operating metrics from 1000+ private companies and provides SaaS-metrics & benchmarks for startup “Vital Signs” like: growth, efficiency, churn and burn. The platform asks users to input their financial and operational data, and then produces a report which benchmarks performance against thousands of quarters of data from similar companies.

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* {{Venture capital firms Financial services companies established in 2000 Venture capital firms of the United States Companies based in Foster City, California