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Announcing our investment in Galileo
We are excited to announce our Series B investment in Galileo, an end-to-end GenAI Stack. The AI bottleneck Companies...
Announcing our investment in Bland
Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Bland. The company is a leader in productizing the latest...
Datagen Is the Future of Computer Vision Training Data
Andy Vitus on our investment in synthetic data leader Datagen.
Scale’s Newest Partner Jeremy Kaufmann Caps Year Of Team Growth
Today's news caps a year of growth for Scale across the investing and Portfolio Operations teams.
DevOps for Connected Devices: Scale Leads Esper’s Series B
Scale is leading Esper's Series B funding round. Andy Vitus on why we invested in the leader in DevOps for edge devices.
Comet’s Series A: Investing in the MLOps Tool Stack
Scale's Andy Vitus on why we invested in the Series A for Comet, the MLOps platform that lets data scientists manage, debug, monitor, and share ML models.
Cognitive Applications with Intelligence Inside
We believe that the next decade will result in the emergence of a new class of application software which we term...
JFrog: A DevOps Company with Adaptability in its DNA
Scale partner Andy Vitus shares his thoughts on the secret of the liquid software pioneer's success: adaptability in everything.
Observe.AI Transforms Contact Centers with Voice AI
Announcing our investment in Observe.AI, the leading provider of next-generation voice AI that helps contact center...
The Intelligent Connected World
An overview of the interconnected world of intelligent software agents.
TechSee: AR Plus AI to Transform CX
Announcing our investment in augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) leader TechSee
Investing in the Future of Work
A glimpse into the trends and markets that are informing future investments
Introducing our investment in Matillion
Matillion’s cloud-native ELT tools makes loading and transforming data in the cloud data warehouse fast, easy, and affordable
JFrog: Automating the Management and Deployment of Software
JFrog's suite provides an automated continuous delivery pipeline that extends all the way from the developer to the end user of the software.
Customer Identity as a Service
Stormpath elegantly centralizes identity into a service, enabling developers to focus on building the application they imagine.
A Database For Your Pocket
The team at Realm has built a database that has several critical advantages over SQLite.
Data Streams Lead to the Cloud
Treasure Data allows massive torrents of data to be easily streamed into a cloud service for storage and analysis.
Our Investment in Crittercism
Apps without performance monitoring are like Formula 1 race cars without instrumentation and pit crew. They either crash and burn or finish last.
PubNub: The Real-Time Network
PubNub powers a global, real-time network, enabling developers to build real-time applications as easily as building a web page.
DataStax: The NoSQL Database for Big Data-Powered Applications
Large web applications need a database that can scale across continents, that offers operational simplicity...
A Valuation Framework for SaaS Companies
For any SaaS company to be more than 10x larger five years from now, it must be growing revenue at a CAGR higher than 80%.
Predictable Growth Decay in SaaS Companies
In recurring-revenue companies, next year's growth rate is likely to be 85% of this year's growth rate.
Time for Hadoop to Grow Up
It's time for Hadoop to grow up, put on a suit, and enter the workforce.
The Cloud Has No Boundary
With virtually the entire application stack being outsourced, it's time to rethink monitoring
Final Push for Passage of the JOBS Act
Today is the last opportunity to show your support for the JOBS Act, a bill encouraging more capital to flow to innovative startups.
API’s: The Connective Tissue of the Web
The number of application programmer interfaces (API's) is growing exponentially. Side effects of this trend of data...
Choose Your Web House Wisely
Maciej Ceglowski compares the new world of cloud platforms to the convenience of living in a dorm room or a monastery.
GitHub: The New Locus of Software Development
By completely dominating the landscape for open-source software, GitHub fast became the default code repository for most developers.
How Zynga and Netflix Use the Cloud
Two internet success stories have adopted different cloud strategies: Zynga owns the base and rents the spike while Netflix...
Understanding Platform-as-a-Service
Platforms-as-a-Service have caught the imagination of developers by abstracting away repetitive middleware configuration.
Outsourcing the Web Stack
Just as the arrival of open-source blogging platforms eliminated the intervening steps between writers and audiences, so the new breed...
The Economics of the Consumer Cloud
Facebook isn't often cited as a cloud computing company since the Social moniker has proven to be stickier.