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Announcing our investment in Monto

We are excited to announce we led a $9M seed investment in Monto, an AI application that helps solve the B2B payments...
BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte on the unique challenges of PMF, GTM, and scaling in Fintech

Scale invested in BILL in 2013 just as the company was crossing $10M of ARR. A decade later, BILL is a leading public...
Four critical mistakes fintech startups make, and how to avoid them

Sanjeev Kriplani is a Scale executive-in-residence and fintech product and marketing leader. Previously, he led teams...
Out of the hype cycle: Fintech’s reversion to the mean

At first glance, things in fintech don’t look great. Since the highs of 2021, we’ve seen few successful public...
Forecasting Fintech: Trends in Automation from Money20/20

Automation is always a key theme at Money20/20, and this year was no different. The impact of AI as it relates to money...
What Comes After Adyen and Stripe? The Future of Payments Orchestration and Optimization

Turns out, phones are quite good payment platforms. This poses a challenge for traditional consumer payments. Debit...
Papaya Global: Why We Invested

Scale partner Rory O'Driscoll outlines our investment thesis in people & payroll services software company Papaya Global.
Who Will Be the First $10B Bookkeeping Automation Company?

Predicting where the next-generation, AI-powered bookkeeping automation market is headed by looking at the history of the payroll services market.