Perspectives, not platitudes.

Scale Studio Flash Updates analyze a representative sample of enterprise software startups to measure industry growth rates and the health of the SaaS market. The most recent updates were the 2022 Whisper Numbers, Q421, Q321, and Q221.

Though usage-based models are not new—having first been championed by AWS (2005) and Twilio (2008) — there’s been a notable increase in their adoption in recent years. This trend continues to accelerate as the landscape for usage-based models quickly evolves. Scale's Max Abram on the next frontier of Usage Based Billing Infrastructure.

We are excited to announce that we have led the Series B in Dusty Robotics, which is building autonomous robots (or field printers) that assist in automating the layout process for mid- to large-scale construction projects.

Product-Led Growth is rightly the go-to sales motion for startups tackling large addressable markets where your product can effectively do the early selling. As the first sales leadership hire at Esper, where we tackled category creation around “DevOps for Devices”, we decided to develop multiple sales motions far earlier than conventional wisdom says you should.

This eBook distills 20 years of SaaS metrics in to one, definitive guide complete with benchmarks of growth, efficiency, churn, and burn by revenue band, and calculations to use at different stages of startup growth.

Scale partner Eric Anderson observes that for software startups, distribution is often more important than unique technology.

Andy Vitus on our investment in synthetic data leader Datagen.

Former head of platform at Box and Workday on the business model and monetization decisions for success with your platform strategy.

Startups should ignore the Rule of 40 in the early going. It comes down to two factors that together are pretty convincing.

Preliminary Scale Studio data on 4Q shows strength across enterprise SaaS as companies accelerate into 2022.

Scaling with MSPs/partners is an option for any early-stage startup. Scale Executive Advisor Georges Arnaout shares how to make this GTM strategy work for you.

Today's news caps a year of growth for Scale across the investing and Portfolio Operations teams.

Dale Chang unpacks "perfect execution" in this look at growth trajectories for startups that hit $1M in ARR.

Announcing the $25M Series B for intelligent supply chain software maker Verusen. Scale has invested in supply chain technology since 2016.

2021 was a big year for venture-back technology IPOs and M&A. Here's a look at what it all means for today's early-stage founders.