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Scale
Defence · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2016 Decacorn
Accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data
Scale mafia
Startups founded by Scale alumni
Former Scale employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Steven HaoUnited States
Akshat BubnaUnited States
Barrett WoodsideUnited States
Connor HeggieUnited States
Lucy GuoUnited States
Anthony KrivonosUnited States
Adarsh KulkarniUnited States
Jeff AndersUnited States
Mokshith VoodarlaUnited States
Michael WooUnited States
Andrew MundayUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Scale has talent and traffic
(479 of 6,428 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$868k patent portfolio · 13 active families
Where Scale concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Scale and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Scale's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Scale appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Scale's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Scale deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Scale's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Scale
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Scale on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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