Scale Venture Partners

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Scale Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that typically leads Series A or Series B rounds. Over the last 20 years, Scale has made over 380 investments in  Cloud, SaaS and Infrastructure companies, with over 159 exits, including IPOs for companies like Bill.com, Box, Docusign, Hubspot, JFrog, RingCentral, Root Insurance, and WalkMe.

Today, Scale continues to focus on these markets, but believes that the trends in  Cloud, AI and data 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, DevOps, Digital Health, Fintech, Infrastructure, Open Source, Productivity, Security, 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^[1][2] to analyze and benchmark SaaS-metrics “Vital Signs” like: growth, efficiency, churn and burn.

Scale is based in Foster City, California.

History[]

The firm was founded in 2000 as BA Venture Partners,^[3] and functioned as the venture capital arm of Bank of America, 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.^[4]

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, productivity, open source, cybersecurity, dev-ops, big data and automation for industries that have traditionally been low-tech.

Investments of note^{[by whom?]} include:

• BigID
• Bill.com
• Box.com
• CircleCI
• CloudHealth
• DemandBase
• Docusign
• ExactTarget
• Expel
• Forter
• Honeycomb
• Hubspot
• JFrog
• KeepTruckin
• Locus Robotics
• Omniture
• OneLogin
• Papaya Global
• PerimiterX
• RingCentral
• Root
• Scout RFP
• Spruce
• Treasure Data
• WalkMe
• Wrike

Scale Studio - SaaS Metrics & Benchmarks[]

Scale Studio is a free data-product that launched in July 2018^[5] 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.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Scale Venture Partners (company website)