Perspectives
Perspectives, not platitudes.
Investment perspectives, market analysis, and growth playbooks from 30 years of backing Founders. What we've learned, what we're seeing, and what actually works.
Let the commodities be commodities
How to build defensible companies in the face of LLM “startup killers”.
Which AI verticals will have the next unicorn?
A framework for generative AI explosion in verticals.
Introducing our GTM benchmark tool
See what “good” GTM looks like based on 175+ VC-backed startups.
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Tools, templates, and playbooks from operators who know what it takes to scale.
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AI at Scale
How we built a Model Context Protocol server for investment research
How Scale’s MCP server connects AI agents to investment data for faster research and better answers.
Article
AI at Scale
Will McGinnis
AI at Scale
We built a background coding agent named Sloppy Joe
How Sloppy Joe turns feedback, security issues, and tech debt into draft PRs overnight.
Article
AI at Scale
Will McGinnis
AI at Scale
How we use AI to build a better map of the venture landscape
How Scale uses AI and clustering to uncover similar startups and hidden market opportunities.
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AI at Scale
Will McGinnis
In the News
DroneDeploy to be acquired by Procore
Congratulations to DroneDeploy, including the three original founders, Mike Winn, Nick Pilkington and Jono Millin, on the company’s acquisition by Procore for $845M.
Portfolio
Rory O'Driscoll
Infrastructure
AI Apps
What AI models need to reach their full potential
In a world where the frontier labs are improving their models at an unbelievable rate, why don’t LLMs seem good enough to rely on for everyday tasks and routine knowledge work?
Article
Infrastructure
Claire Yoon
Fintech
Verticals
The game theory of B2B payments and why checks survive
Why paper checks still dominate B2B payments, and what it will take to replace them.
Article
Fintech
Alex Niehenke
In the News
Teaching robots to use their hands: announcing our investment in Generalist!
Generalist is building foundation models for robotic manipulation, enabling robots to perform complex physical tasks in real-world environments. We’re excited to support the team in their Series B.
In the News
Siddharth Ramakrishnan
Trends
Portfolio
How much startups are actually spending on code generation
How much are startups really spending on AI code gen?
Article
Trends
Javier Redondo
AI Apps
The mile is becoming the marathon
“Running fast” used to be a SaaS moat. In the LLM era, that moat is getting harder to defend.
Article
AI Apps
Max Abram
Verticals
There are now three businesses in vertical AI
There are three broad types of businesses in vertical AI, and founders should probably know which one they are.
Article
Verticals
Alex Niehenke
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Investment perspectives, market analysis, and growth playbooks from 30 years of backing Founders.
