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The theme of 2024 is cautious optimism. With improved ARR growth rates across the board and two consecutive quarters of median GAAP revenue growth improvement, it looks like the worst is over. So, where do we go from here? We're…
Scale’s quarterly Scale Studio Flash Updates use our proprietary data platform, Scale Studio, to analyze a representative sample of enterprise software startups and provide a real-time look into industry growth rates and the health of the software market. Today, we…
Software engineers have effectively been on a path of self-erasure from day one. Once upon a time, they noblely set forth into this world to lead the charge on innovation and champion human progress. Time and time again, they built…
As we kick off the 2024 annual planning season, we’re sharing an early view of what we’re seeing in early-stage startups to give sense of what’s to come next year. We hope these “whisper numbers” can help you calibrate your…
At the beginning of 2023, we saw CEOs and founders across the board herald the beginning of the year of efficiency. Now, 11 months later, we’ve seen that born out in the data. Both private and public tech companies have…
Scale’s quarterly Scale Studio Flash Updates use our proprietary data platform, Scale Studio, to analyze a representative sample of enterprise software startups and provide a real-time look into industry growth rates and the health of the SaaS market. Today, we…
The latest session of our New Ideas in AI Series brought together yet another exciting group of leading engineers, founders, and academics from across the industry to discuss applications of chain-of-thought prompting with Jason Wei, a researcher at OpenAI. Jason’s…
In 2017, we published our first piece on Insurtech, and opportunities for newcomers to differentiate themselves. We subsequently invested in Root Insurance in car insurance, Spruce in title insurance, and Archipelago Analytics in large value property insurance. Fast forward six years, and…
Scale’s quarterly Scale Studio Flash Updates use our proprietary data platform, Scale Studio, to analyze a representative sample of enterprise software startups and provide a real-time look into industry growth rates and the health of the SaaS market. Today, we explore…
