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The bleeding has stopped: Growth ticked up for the first time in 6 quarters

November 2, 2023
Eduard Danalache
Trends
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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…

New Ideas in AI: Getting LLMs to Reason Through Chain-of-Thought Prompting

October 16, 2023
Max Abram, Maggie Basta and Jeremy Kaufmann
AI Apps, Trends
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The latest session of our New Ideas in AI Series brought together yet another exciting group of leading engineers, founders, and academics from across the industry to discuss applications of chain-of-thought prompting with Jason Wei, a researcher at OpenAI. Jason’s…

The path to innovation in security

In our recently published Security Perspectives Survey, we found that only 48% of enterprise security leaders said that their threat defenses are effective. We’re expecting the road ahead to keep getting tougher as attacks become increasingly more sophisticated, particularly with attackers leveraging the latest in AI. So what’s it going to take to get ahead of the challenge?

Back to the future: Insurtech market is all about brokers and carriers

August 11, 2023
Alex Niehenke
Trends, Verticals

In 2017, we published our first piece on Insurtech, and opportunities for newcomers to differentiate themselves. We subsequently invested in Root Insurance in car insurance, Spruce in title insurance, and Archipelago Analytics in large value property insurance. Fast forward six years, and…

Growth ticks down again in Q223: Scale Studio Flash Update

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 explore…

Cybersecurity Perspectives 2023

We’re pleased to share Scale’s annual Cybersecurity Perspectives Survey findings. Every year, we survey hundreds of U.S.-based security leaders who are responsible for buying decisions, the success of security deployments, or the overall security of the company. The respondents in our survey…

New Ideas In AI: Agents, their role, and viability in today’s world

July 11, 2023
Maggie Basta
AI Apps, Trends

Quick recap and video of the talk from our latest New Ideas in AI dinner series with guest speaker Joon Sung Park, who spoke about Generative Agents.

1,000 Engineering jobs in AI: Introducing Scale’s AI job board

Since 2015, 70%+ of our investing has focused on AI applications and infrastructure. We’re proud to have led early rounds for companies like Viz.ai, Observe.ai, Socure, and Forter well before LLMs or diffusion models brought AI into the mainstream. But we’re…

Slowdown Mirrors Public Markets: Flash Update Follow-Up

We can clearly see above that public tech companies are seeing similar drop-offs in NDR to private SaaS startups. The median public SaaS NDR has fallen 10% from 121% in Q221 to 111% in Q123. While it’s a bit bumpy, the median NDR for SaaS startups has fallen a similar amount - down 8% from 112% in Q221 to 104% in Q123.

Growth slows beyond expectations in Q1: Scale Studio Flash Update

Q123 data indicates that the growth slowdown is continuing - and most companies failed to meet even the conservative plans they set earlier this year. This was the fourth consecutive quarter of decrease in both top-decile and median year-over-year ARR growth, with only 22% of companies achieving their Q123 plans.

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The bleeding has stopped: Growth ticked up for the first time in 6 quarters

New Ideas in AI: Getting LLMs to Reason Through Chain-of-Thought Prompting

The path to innovation in security

Back to the future: Insurtech market is all about brokers and carriers

Growth ticks down again in Q223: Scale Studio Flash Update

Cybersecurity Perspectives 2023

New Ideas In AI: Agents, their role, and viability in today’s world

1,000 Engineering jobs in AI: Introducing Scale’s AI job board

Slowdown Mirrors Public Markets: Flash Update Follow-Up

Growth slows beyond expectations in Q1: Scale Studio Flash Update

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