Jonas Ciplickas grew up in San Jose during the 1990s semiconductor boom with a father who helped take a semiconductor startup from academia to IPO, giving him early exposure to deep-tech commercialization, and he holds an unusually technical background for a venture investor with a BA in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. At Scale Venture Partners, he focuses on niche vertical markets that can become sneakily massive opportunities, working on AI-driven, workflow-specific companies and publicly championing under-served technical verticals like architecture, engineering, and construction where he argues new vision-language models are finally creating transformative AI moments.