Between massive IPO bumps, founders being picked off by big tech, and ever-increasing round sizes and valuations, today's startup market is getting a little frothy. Still, we remain optimistic at where the ship is headed. Across the board, startups are…
Capturing part of the value generated for customers has always been a north star in pricing. If customers don’t benefit from using your product, they shouldn’t pay you for it. On the flip side, if they’re getting tons of value…
Scale is thrilled to announce our lead investment in Unwrap’s Series A. Historically, product owners have relied heavily on quantitative insights to inform their roadmaps, but their ability to derive metrics from unstructured data sources has been limited. As a…
Over the past couple of weeks, a number of founders and startup teams have reached out to us to help them think through how they should be setting their 2025 growth and spend targets. As part of this early annual…
We’re excited about our Series B investment in Klarity, the leading document automation platform for finance and accounting organizations. Financial document automation is a market primed for AI innovation. In today's digital age, software has proliferated across industries, yet numerous…
“IPO.” The elusive dream of many a startup founder. Today, it’s an even more elusive dream than ever, as more and more startups are lining up at the window to go public as soon as it opens (which will hopefully…
The theme of 2024 is cautious optimism. With improved ARR growth rates across the board and two consecutive quarters of median GAAP revenue growth improvement, it looks like the worst is over. So, where do we go from here? We're…
As we kick off the 2024 annual planning season, we’re sharing an early view of what we’re seeing in early-stage startups to give sense of what’s to come next year. We hope these “whisper numbers” can help you calibrate your…
At the beginning of 2023, we saw CEOs and founders across the board herald the beginning of the year of efficiency. Now, 11 months later, we’ve seen that born out in the data. Both private and public tech companies have…
Scale’s quarterly Scale Studio Flash Updates use our proprietary data platform, Scale Studio, to analyze a representative sample of enterprise software startups and provide a real-time look into industry growth rates and the health of the SaaS market. Today, we…
