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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.
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Portfolio
People, Progress, and a Look Ahead
Updates from Scale on new team members, new look, and a preview of our new investing theme
Article
Portfolio
Rory O'Driscoll
Scale Studio
Trends
The Startup Funding Domino Effect: Seed to A to B to C
Startups are raising more capital earlier, impacting how venture investors evaluate Series A and B funding rounds
Article
Dale Chang
Go To Market
Scale Studio
Customer Success Isn’t an Add-On. Start Early to Win Later.
Prioritize customer success early to avoid inefficiency and missteps later
Article
Dale Chang
Go To Market
Guest Post: Building Business Value with DevOps
Adopting DevOps requires major organizational change and won’t happen overnight. CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber explains how to get started.
Article
Go To Market
Guest Author
AI Apps
Portfolio
AllyO: At Last, Conversational AI Done Right
End-to-end AI recruiter AllyO shows how conversational AI can drastically improve efficiency in a traditionally low-tech market
Article
Stacey Bishop
Trends
Why Your Next Open Source Project May Only Be an Interface
We are likely to see more open interfaces and metaframeworks emerge, but they have their drawbacks
Article
Trends
Eric Anderson
Go To Market
Scale Studio
You Closed the Books on Another Quarter. It’s Time to Visit Scale Studio.
Update your performance metrics in Scale Studio to receive a new custom benchmark report on your growth, efficiency, churn, and operations
Article
Dale Chang
Go To Market
Scale Studio
The Six Signs of Go-to-Market Repeatability
These qualitative and quantitative signals show that an early stage company has achieved go-to-market repeatability and is ready to scale
Article
Sam Baker
Trends
Making Sense of a Crazy Year in Open Source
Commentary on the ongoing open source licensing wars, and Chef’s refreshing return to classic open source
Article
Trends
Eric Anderson
Trends
Scale Venture Partners Promotes Jeremy Kaufmann to Principal
ScaleVP’s newest Principal was a key contributor to our investments in KeepTruckin, Cognata, Solvvy, and TechSee
Article
Trends
Stacey Bishop
Go To Market
Scale Studio
Four Vital Signs of SaaS
The best way to assess the health of a SaaS startup is this set of four metrics that let you benchmark accurately across other similar companies
Article
Rory O'Driscoll
Trends
Why Mergers and IPOs Aren’t Exits and Other Advice from CFOs Who Have Gone the Distance
SaaS company CFOs share their insights on leading a company into its next phase of growth
Article
Trends
Dale Chang
Portfolio
Security
And You Are…? Socure Aims Advanced Machine Learning at the Digital Identity Problem
Announcing our investment in Socure, a real-time predictive analytics platform that provides identity verification at new account origination
Article
Rory O'Driscoll
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Investment perspectives, market analysis, and growth playbooks from 30 years of backing Founders.
