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Announcing our investment in Fixify
Today, we’re excited to announce our participation in Fixify’s Series A. Fixify enables businesses to offer...
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...
AI SOC Analysts: LLMs find a home in the security org
Operating a Security Operations Center (SOC) is one of the toughest jobs in the enterprise, and over the last two...
The rise of advanced build systems
It’s 2024 and decades-old memes about building software still hold up. Despite advances in the DevOps stack –...
Goldmine or graveyard: Do platform shifts actually produce infrastructure outcomes?
Platform shifts create explosive venture outcomes. Within two years of the first iPhone, the new mobile platform led to...
Announcing our investment in Cortex
Scale is thrilled to announce our lead investment in the Series C of Cortex. Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal...
Announcing our investment in QA Wolf
We are excited to announce that Scale is leading the $36M Series B of QA Wolf. When it comes to testing software,...
Building trustworthy AI systems: AI Reliability and Security are everyone’s problem
Two years ago it was unclear if AI security and reliability was anyone’s problem. Now, it’s starting to look like...
Postgres: One database to rule them all?
There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of databases available. Why? The real-world problem whose data is captured by the...
Announcing our investment in Permit.io
We are excited to announce that Scale has led the $8M Series A round at Permit.io, creator of the full-stack...
Beyond autocomplete: AI-enabled tools are changing what it means to be a developer
Software engineers have effectively been on a path of self-erasure from day one. Once upon a time, they noblely set...
The most important announcement from re:Invent: S3 Express
Read any AWS reInvent recap from a major outlet and you’ll hear all about the AI news: new chips, new models, and...
The Second Wave of DevOps: Our Investment in System Initiative
Announcing our investment in System Initiative's Series A.
Stream processing becomes mainstream
We believe that we are at an inflection point where stream processing will become the standard that powers user-facing...
Announcing our investment in Vantage
Vantage is a self-service cost visibility platform that helps businesses manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure...
The Opportunity in Usage Based Billing Infrastructure
Though usage-based models are not new—having first been championed by AWS (2005) and Twilio (2008) — there’s been...
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.
The Future of Data Lake Analytics: Our Investment in Upsolver
Scale's Ariel Tseitlin on why we invested in the Series B for Upsolver, the no-code future of data lake analytics.
Flatfile’s Series A: Streamlining Data Movement from App to App
Today we’re announcing Scale’s investment in Flatfile’s Series A funding round. Here are some thoughts on the universal need for better data onboarding.
Honeycomb Helps Organizations with Cloud Applications Achieve Production Excellence
Announcing our investment in Honeycomb, the gold standard for observability software that gives enterprises better...
Bringing Clarity into e-Commerce: Our Investment in Narvar
Driving long-term customer engagement and loyalty in the crowded e-Commerce industry
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
Software Dreams of Community: how Google helps humans scale Kubernetes with Sarah Novotny (Kubernetes/Google)
Why do some pieces of software attract people, and others don’t? What makes developers want to use a product but not others? Why even want a...
Customer Identity as a Service
Stormpath elegantly centralizes identity into a service, enabling developers to focus on building the application they imagine.
When the Cloud Honeymoon Has Ended; Successfully Operating in a Cloud Environment
Our Investment in CloudHealth Technologies
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...
The Cloud Has No Boundary
With virtually the entire application stack being outsourced, it's time to rethink monitoring
Our Investment in Boundary
In every investment we make at ScaleVP, we look for two things, broad market trends and great execution. Boundary has both.