MCP is the new WWW
Over the past year, agentic AI has been loosely defined to mean anything from RAG to function calling and computer use. But what is an agent exactly? We now have an answer: agent = LLM + MCP. Primer For LLMs,…
Category: Infrastructure
Announcing our investment in Fixify
Today, we're excited to announce our participation in Fixify's Series A. Fixify enables businesses to offer world-class IT support to their employees without the hassle and overhead of building a big internal team. Every organization with knowledge workers has IT…
Announcing our investment in Galileo
We are excited to announce our Series B investment in Galileo, an end-to-end GenAI Stack. The AI bottleneck Companies are increasingly looking to AI to automate tasks and interact with end users. But as with any software product, getting solutions…
AI SOC Analysts: LLMs find a home in the security org
Operating a Security Operations Center (SOC) is one of the toughest jobs in the enterprise, and over the last two years, LLMs have only made it even harder. Threat actors have moved quickly to adopt this new technology, using it…
The rise of advanced build systems
It’s 2024 and decades-old memes about building software still hold up. Despite advances in the DevOps stack – Docker for containerization, CircleCI for CI/CD, and Terraform for infrastructure as code – many engineering organizations still struggle to deliver fast, consistent,…
Goldmine or graveyard: Do platform shifts actually produce infrastructure outcomes?
Platform shifts create explosive venture outcomes. Within two years of the first iPhone, the new mobile platform led to the inception of consumer applications like Uber, Square, and WhatsApp. In parallel, public cloud was catalyzing the early days of enterprise…
Announcing our investment in Cortex
Scale is thrilled to announce our lead investment in the Series C of Cortex. Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) that was started after a simple realization: engineering teams have no system of record. Every other organization has a…
Announcing our investment in QA Wolf
We are excited to announce that Scale is leading the $36M Series B of QA Wolf. When it comes to testing software, there are two immemorial truths: Testing is absolutely crucial. No one wants to do it. Tests can be…
Building trustworthy AI systems: AI Reliability and Security are everyone’s problem
Two years ago it was unclear if AI security and reliability was anyone’s problem. Now, it’s starting to look like everyone's problem. After all, it turns out that owning a product that might spew heinous slurs and leak all your…
Postgres: One database to rule them all?
There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of databases available. Why? The real-world problem whose data is captured by the application needs to be represented by a model. Since the 1980s, most databases have adopted a relational model, which is associated with…