

Scale AI

At Scale, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. We believe that to make the best models, you need the best data. The Scale Generative AI Platform leverages your enterprise data to customize powerful base generative models to safely unlock the value of AI. The Scale Data Engine consists of all the tools and features you need to collect, curate and annotate high-quality data, in addition to robust tools to evaluate and optimize your models. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. Scale is trusted by leading technology companies like Microsoft and Meta, enterprises like Fox and Accenture, Generative AI companies like Open AI and Cohere, U.S. Government Agencies like the U.S. Army and the U.S. Airforce, and Startups like Brex and OpenSea.
Founding Year
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
Sector(s)
AI
Funding State
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Exited
Total Funding Amount
$605.12M
Funds that Investested
Y Combinator
Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
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Coatue
Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.
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Greenoaks
VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.
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Next Play Ventures
Led by Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Exec Chairman. Next Play coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations.
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Tiger Global Management
Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.
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Accel
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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Index Ventures
Fund based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into transformative international businesses. Index covers every investment stage, from earliest seed through to explosive growth.
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Thrive Capital
Focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
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Spark Capital
Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.
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Founders Fund
SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.
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Bradley Horowitz
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Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman is the former CEO of GitHub. He has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years
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Investors that Investested
Erik Torenberg
Co-Founder & Partner, Village Global
Co-CEO, On Deck. Community builder, company founder, and startup investor.
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Ilya Sukhar
General Partner, Matrix Partners
"At Parse, we set out to change how developers built apps -reaching millions of developers and powering hundreds of thousands of apps. From writing the first lines of code, managing the acquisition to leading the team as a semi-autonomous unit inside Facebook, it was both hard and great." "I led all of Facebook’s developer products including early efforts to build a developer platform in Messenger. It was a big change. Product-market fit and scale trump all. Facebook focuses on only a few important things and re-evaluates methodically -which is a huge advantage."
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Nat Friedman
Angel Investor, Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business. Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.
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Miles Grimshaw
General Partner , Benchmark
Miles' investments include Segment (acquired by Twilio for $3.2B), Benchling, and Airtable — each of which he invested before they had 30 employees. Prior to Benchmark, Miles was a GP at Thrive Capital.
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John Luttig
Principal, Founders Fund
Worked on investments in Newfront Insurance, Scale AI, Figma, Tagomi, Zinier, Coder, and Flock Safety.
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Series A
Series B+
Andy Chen
General Partner, Coatue
Investor in Persona, Figma, Scale, Chime, Placement, and many others.
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Paul Graham
Founder, Y Combinator
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
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Michael Seibel
Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner, Y Combinator
Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Will Reed
General Partner, Spark Capital
Will isn’t afraid to challenge tradition and forge his own path—both in venture and life. Growing up an avid gamer and athlete, he developed a sense of healthy competition that has followed him throughout his career. As a general partner at Spark, Will’s investing philosophy leads him to support ambitious, often first-time founders taking big swings at large markets.
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