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Low-code vs. no-code vs. plain old software? Scale’s @chriseyin shares a framework for organizing the #lowcode #nocode market by users and use cases. scalevp.com/blog/the-user-x-…
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Big News! @ScaleVP Raises New $335 Million Fund to invest in next gen enterprise software on.tcrn.ch/l/flDw via @techcrunch
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We're excited to announce our investment in @usebland
With Bland's proprietary models and Zapier-style flow builder, enterprises can securely build, test, and deploy their own AI phone calling agents. scalevp.com/insights/announc…
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We created a tool to help founders sketch out what their path to IPO might look like—how big they need to be and how fast they need to grow at every stage in their journey. scalevp.com/insights/the-pat…
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We're thrilled to share the Scale Generative AI Index, the most comprehensive list of companies building in this space. Yes, it includes funding, investors, and headcount. Are you on it? scalevp.com/generative-ai
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Want to know how fast your co should be growing? Understanding the Mendoza Line for SaaS growth tcrn.ch/2Ca6FPb via @techcrunch
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Good background on @mipsytipsy and Scale portfolio company @honeycombio in this story on enterprise software from @nytimes.
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How did #Python grow to become the essential tool it is today? @ericmand and @teoliphant recount the history of a community of "individual mavericks" on the latest contributor.fyi
#opensource #podcast
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"Reach out to us and let us know what you’re building."
Today we announced our latest fund with a note to founders from the team @StaceyCurry @rodriscoll @avitus @atseitlin @aniehenke
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The playbook for building a winning startup is changing, with an emphasis on sustainable growth over explosive growth. Here's how that may play out based on our 2025 whisper numbers. scalevp.com/insights/2025-wh…
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Via @HarvardBiz S.Raina compiles data to show the gender gap in #startup success disappears when women fund women ow.ly/K3tD302tyjf
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Congratulations to the @JoinVantage team on announcing their $21M Series A this morning!
@atseitlin shares more about his long journey in this space, and why Vantage is the future of cloud cost management and optimization: scalevp.com/blog/announcing-…
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Super thrilled to announce a new member of our team! Google alum Eric Anderson joins Scale Venture Partners as a new Principal buff.ly/2BG50oS
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Diversity in Venture Capital – A National Conversation. @katedmitchell sparks discussion and path to change #NVCA shar.es/1pRfJU
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Introducing Scale Studio, the SaaS benchmarking tool that compares your company’s performance to a database of cloud companies at similar stages of growth.
Stop wondering about your growth, churn, or sales efficiency. Scale Studio has the answers. scalestudio.vc
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Change is happening fast in residential real estate. Scale's @aniehenke looks at how @sprucehq is using APIs and digitization to upend a market where fax machines are often the norm. with @chriseyin. scalevp.com/blog/spruce-pick…
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"I really think the company is doing something very different and very exciting." ScaleVP's @ericmand shared his analysis of today's @chef news and the tumultuous year in #OpenSource software. scalevp.com/blog/making-sens…
The future of Chef Software is here, and that future is 100% open source. Read here for more detail: okt.to/sRy3p4.
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What metrics does a #VC firm use to evaluate your #startup? Our own @susanwliu sheds some light: buff.ly/2tTvVbx
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Building a company, an intelligent product & scaling is hard: @neiljcapel Startup Story @Sailthru ow.ly/PFZAq
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ICYMI: We launched an AI Job board. 1k+ jobs, 120+ companies. We’ll be highlighting companies and opportunities, so follow along to catch the Applied AI wave 🌊
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In past 16 yrs, we have invested $425M+ into #SaaS businesses -- our history in SaaS here: ow.ly/Y0jcS ow.ly/i/gvblO
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Does the tech exist to automate the most complex enterprise workflows? Scale’s @chriseyin looks at what it takes to win in enterprise automation.
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How growth became the go-to #startup benchmark, what alternatives may lie ahead, w/ @DanielleMorrill of @Mattermark ow.ly/cHyt307pghU
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New 📼: we talk about surviving platforms shifts + what the future may hold for #VR with the founder of @unity3d tapes.scalevp.com/riding-pla…
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We believe it’s always a good time to build an innovative company. But now is especially good. If you’re a founder working on something great, we would love to meet you.
Announcing Scale Venture Partners Fund VIII
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Partner @KateDMitchell speaks w/@USAToday : VCs taking a pledge to bring diversity to industry at today's #WHDemoDay ow.ly/QtkfQ
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Check out THE STARTUP TAPES: the highs (& lows) of building a startup, through candid video interviews tapes.scalevp.com
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#StartupTapes 📼: Many workplaces are remote-friendly, @gitlab co-founder / CEO @sytses on how remote-only works ow.ly/MC1e305KFiA
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Good overview of DevOps leaders including Scale portfolio companies @honeycombio @jfrog @CircleCI via @rosaliechan17 businessinsider.com/17-devop…
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There are many approaches to valuing a #SaaS biz, the most common is using a revenue multiple, @aniehenke explains ow.ly/NW5sZ
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Proud @scalevp is 1 of 3 #VC firms co-founded by women in @crunchbase study. Others @greycroftvc @floodgatefund ow.ly/4mRCNE
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RT @bizible: How Do You Know If Your Content Marketing Is Successful? hubs.ly/H01NLSJ0 #B2B nitter.app/bizible/status/6894786…
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Join us in congratulating Scale's newest partner Jeremy Kaufmann @jkauf_mann! Today we also announced promotions for investors Sam Baker @swbakes (to Principal) and John Gianakopoulos @Johnggee (to VP).
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.@Ttaulli asks #VCs how startups should raise #VentureCapital in a down market? Partner Andy Vitus shares ow.ly/XOsMA
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Congratulations to the @billcom team on today's IPO!
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Thrilled to announce our investment in @softroboticsinc - new board member @rodriscoll dives into the technology and how it will open up new markets buff.ly/2jo581e
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Scale's @susanwliu and Sam Baker discuss enterprise software investing in this profile from Business Insider. businessinsider.com/meet-23-…
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Moving #ML models into production: Franziska Bell of @uber, @kurtosis0 of @stitchfix, and @josh_wills of @slackhq at today's Fika | Scale Data Summit @fikavc @scalevp @atseitlin
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Worried you aren’t growing fast enough? “To change that future requires an active act of will to overcome the inertia that all businesses face. It may mean new executives, new products or changing business models.” @rodriscoll #mendozaline buff.ly/2HZsdlQ
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A couple of weeks ago we hosted another session of our New Ideas in AI Series with Joon Sung Park, who discussed his acclaimed Generative Agents paper with a group of leading engineers, founders, and academics from across the industry. Full talk here: scalevp.com/blog/new-ideas-i…
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We're pleased to announce that Scale will lead the @observeAI Series A. Partner @avitus shares why we're excited about the leader in voice #AI technology for the $300B contact center industry. scalevp.com/blog/observeai-t…
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White Paper: The Key to #B2B Success and How to Get Better Results with portfolio co @Demandbase ow.ly/WsIcH #marketing
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We've seen a dramatic increase in usage based models across our portfolio. In 2019, only 19% of companies had a usage based model. Today, it for 40%. With that shift comes challenges (and opportunities) in billing platforms. More thoughts here: scalevp.com/blog/the-opportu…
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Get your @StartupGrind started right with actionable insights from ScaleVP's @rodriscoll. Rory will present 7 takeaways from a new analysis of performance metrics at 300+ SaaS startups. Swing by tomorrow (Feb 12) at 10am on the Growth Stage. #StartupGrind
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Check out how Scale Studio helps @JFrog co-founder and CEO @ShlomiBenHaim make decisions about the company’s growth and operations. Then visit buff.ly/2RJbtTw to get your company’s custom benchmark report.
#SaaS #metrics #VC #ScaleStudio #SaaStrAnnual19
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Women breach tech and venture capital barriers ft.com/content/27763b84-f604… via @financialtimes
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Our 2023 Cybersecurity Perspectives Survey is out today. H/t @LouisColumbus and @VentureBeat for the coverage. The full report is available here: scalevp.com/cybersecurity-su…
Network, IAM, and cloud are the top 3 cybersecurity spending priorities for 2023 venturebeat.com/security/net… #AI #CISO #Cloud #Cybersecurity #IAM
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RT @wienbar: 2014 SaaS Market Outlook blog.startupcompass.co/2014-… @scalevp <3 #SaaS for its growth, value to customers
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"The most frequent mistake entrepreneurs make is relying on third-party analysts to do their homework." Top 10 tips from @aniehenke on getting your market size right buff.ly/2FgxhRO
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Congratulations to @Verusen_AI and founder @pauljnoble on today's news! Scale's @StaceyCurry on why we invested in #MaterialTruth: scalevp.com/blog/verusen-rev…
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Super psyched to be working with this company: @JFrog Takes Big Leap Forward With $50 Million Round on.tcrn.ch/l/qb8Y via @techcrunch
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Today Scale portfolio company @JFrog completed its IPO. Lead partner @avitus reflects on the DevOps pioneer’s evolution from startup to public company.
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#DevOps #IPO
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Scale's @daleschang shared this tool for analyzing the connection between sales quotas and sales efficiency. Is your company's sales model sustainable over the long term?
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"2018 is all about scale. Our mission is to make it as easy as possible to go from idea to delivery."
Today we announced our $31M Series C funding thanks to @ttcp_sf @industryVC @heavybit, joining @scalevp, Baseline Ventures, @mcgd and @DFJvc. More on what’s next: circle.ci/2mEQ1l2
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Companies in 2023 are sprinting to efficiency, with some companies forecasting a 25% drop in GAAP revenue growth, but a 50% improvement in Burn Multiple. See the numbers in our latest Flash Update here: scalevp.com/blog/growth-slow…
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.@Mattermark ranks top-15 #startup regions in US; these 15 cities account for ~93% of the total VC dollars invested ow.ly/HEY6303CWQ2
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In current state, #IoT has 2 predominant use cases: control & analysis. ScaleVPs @AVitus and Gregory Silva explain: ow.ly/OlSNl
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Via @FortuneMagazine @KateDMitchell explains how market volatility may impact VC investment ow.ly/SRAyj #valuations #techbubble
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66% of hiring pros say attracting quality candidates is their biggest challenge. @lever shares 3 ways to solve buff.ly/2D4C7Au
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Good news: Growth ticked up in Q3, for the first time in 6 quarters. Our latest Flash Update indicates the worst may be behind us. scalevp.com/insights/the-ble…
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We're happy to share that Scale's @susanwliu will receive a 2020 Rising Star Award from @NVCA. Congratulations Susan!
We are pleased to present the recipients of the 2020 Rising Star Award: @rnbracken of @Venrock, Dan Kidle of @ArboretumVC, & @susanwliu of @scalevp. Congrats to all three!
They will each be presented with the award at the #VC Gala on March 12. Join them: nvca.org/nvca-leadership-gal…
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Our @staceycurry will join VCs from @FoundationCap and @Accel at @MarTechConf to discuss future of #MarTech on 3/22 ow.ly/XRiIw
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The future of edge devices is more devices and greater complexity. @Esperdev makes managing those devices easy by bringing #DevOps into the mix. From @avitus
#SeriesB
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RT @thebev: Great panel about entrepreneurship and diversity “Diverse teams solve problems better” @katedmitchell
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Our @chriseyin chatted with @aishacounts @protocol about the expansion of low/no code platforms beyond developer oriented users across internal and external uses cases. protocol.com/enterprise/low-…. Expanded thoughts on the shift here: scalevp.com/blog/the-user-x-…
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Who's attending #SaaStrAnnual next week? Our @StaceyCurry will be there with dozens of #SaaS leaders. ow.ly/i/gtb0U
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Via @business Women launch more than half of all new Internet companies in China. ow.ly/KkB4304o3X2 #diversity
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Just as #bigdata started by biggest consumer tech cos, trend for privacy by design about to begin,writes @timbarker ow.ly/Tsz33035jXD
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Recent sentiment around fintech has been particularly gloomy. We wanted to see how much of that was discourse vs. data. What we learned: Actually, core B2B fintech funding is in pretty good shape!
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Innovation everywhere! We only invest in technology and it happens that our last 5 deals were companies based outside of Silicon Valley 🤔 @joinroot @locusrobotics @matillion @unbabel & one to be announced.
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Partner @KateDMitchell speaks w/@jguynn about how the #VC industry is taking steps to #ChangeTheRatio at #WHDemoDay ow.ly/Qthup
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"Honeycomb is enabling a long-overdue shift in the way developers interact with and operate the software they build."
@ScaleVP partner @atseitlin on @honeycombio. Scale led the $11.4M funding round announced today. scalevp.com/blog/honeycomb-h…
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.@jeremyphoward just launched an AI course @USFCA fast.ai/2016/10/08/course-ba… His thoughts on AI + entrepreneurship: tapes.scalevp.com/startups-a…
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Introducing #ScaleStudio, the SaaS benchmarking tool for measuring your company’s performance against other cloud companies at similar growth stages. Are you growing fast enough? Is your churn too high? Scale Studio has your answers. scalevp.com/blog/is-your-com… #ScaleStudio #metrics
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Congratulations to @DustyRobotics and founder @tessalau on today’s news! Here's Scale’s @aniehenke on why we led the #SeriesB. #robotics scalevp.com/blog/short-circu…
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"The startup’s founders saw a rich opportunity to apply speech analytics, leveraging speech-to-text and natural language processing to find points of interest in human conversation." Congrats to @ObserveAI on making the @Forbes #AI50. @avitus forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman…
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The latest episode of contributor.fyi is live! @ericmand interviews @adamhjk on the origin story of open source @Chef.
#opensource #podcast
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Growth data is pointing toward a tech recovery. While things are headed in the right direction, we're not expecting a rapid snapback to hyper growth.
Read more on our flash report. scalevp.com/insights/the-end…
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Portfolio co @Demandbase SharesThe Future of Marketing Technology and Why Strategy Matters ow.ly/TyTec #CMO #B2B
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Portfolio co @Pubnub Tutorial Covers How to Build Realtime Charts for Live-Updating Data by @sw1tch ow.ly/TYfDh #javascript #EON
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Shout out to the Frogs and forever changing the way software is updated. @JFrog lands $165M investment as valuation jumps over $1 billion buff.ly/2NmoXSU via @techcrunch
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Congratulations to @omriiluz and the entire team @perimeterx on today's milestone. Big moves as it embarks on a market-changing #merger with @SecurewithHUMAN. Read more here: perimeterx.com/resources/blo…
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According to VisionMobile's new #IoT Megatrends 2016 report, 4.5M developers are working on IoT applications. ow.ly/XGPKO
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How to raise #VC in a down market? @avitus says, "For every dollar you raise, how much value are you creating?" ow.ly/XOqxu
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Partner @StaceyCurry on how #DigitalMarketing has transformed B2B sales process, using tech to create revenue opps ow.ly/xTgzV
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Another fund down! @scalevp closes new $400M fund. @rodriscoll gives the scoop on Fund VI and what is driving the future of work. buff.ly/2NAXezc
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In Feb 2016, 33% of total #VC deals were early stage, whereas late stage accounted for 20%, reports @PitchBook ow.ly/Z2Gvg
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7 Tips by portfolio @OneLogin on how to get the most from your #IAM investment ow.ly/WXI7g #SaaS #IT
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Congrats @Lever on your series C! A stellar team, rethinking the future of recruiting. buff.ly/2uaF1AX
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Every major data breach releases personal data that fuels future bot attacks. @atseitlin discusses how ScaleVP's latest investment @perimeterx uses machine learning to combat advanced bot attacks. scalevp.com/blog/bots-are-ha…
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If you missed @rodriscoll talk about #SaaS metrics at @StartupGrind, the full presentation is now available.
Get the research behind his talk here: scalevp.com/blog/four-vital-… …
And benchmark your company's performance here: scalestudio.vc
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