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Rory is a Partner at Scale and has been investing with the firm since the mid-1990s. He is currently focused on the business applications that are enabled by AI across both the digital and the physical world.
When he started investing in software, the dominant architecture was client-server, and the Mosaic internet browser had just launched. He has since invested through the internet era, the move to SaaS and cloud, and now the move to AI.
His SaaS investments include BILL (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), WalkMe (WKME) Omniture (OMTR), and Exact Target (ET). AI-first software investments from the pre-Gen AI period include Socure, Forter, and Solvvy. Post 2022, he has invested in companies including Tavus, Klarity, Regie, GC AI, and Unwrap. AI investments for the physical world include Locus Robotics, Drone Deploy, and Plus One Robotics.
He is a weekly guest on the 20VC podcast, providing commentary and analysis on the state of venture and tech.
Rory grew up in Ireland and moved to the UK to attend the London School of Economics. With a failed startup under his belt, he immigrated to the United States in 1991 and started in venture within a year of his arrival. In the rare moments he’s not working, he’s making time for friends and family and reading a broad range of fiction and nonfiction.
Max is an early-stage investor focused on AI applications, often partnering with founders at the first moments of product-market fit.
Max joined Scale from the growth equity group at Kayne Anderson. In this first investing role, he focused on category winners in underappreciated markets; he joined Scale to partner with founders focused on winning the largest prizes. To that end, Max counts the partnerships he championed with the teams at Bland and Tavus among his early career highlights. Max has been recognized as a rising star in venture by Business Insider.
A New York City native, Max studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Penn, where he was also a varsity rower. Outside of the office, Max enjoys playing backgammon, road biking, and reading fiction.
Eric is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure and security. He is a Board member at Scale portfolio companies QA Wolf, Cortex, Datastax, Permit.io, and Upsolver, and a Board observer at AppOmni, BigID, Expel, Honeycomb, and Matillion.
Before Scale, Eric led early Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services product teams. At Google, he was a Product Manager in the Data Analytics and Machine Learning group. He led the team that launched Cloud Dataprep and key components of Cloud Dataflow. Previously, Eric built aircraft engines in General Electric’s Operation Management Leadership Program. He’s a contributor to open source projects including Alluxio, where he is on the Project Management Committee, and Apache Beam.
Eric holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Utah and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the creator and host of Contributor, an interview series detailing the origin stories of open source projects. When not at the office or exploring a new open source solution, Eric keeps busy with his five kids.
Craig joined Scale in 2022 to help build and manage their Go-To-Market Platform. The Scale GTM Platform delivers critical expertise to help software companies drive efficient hyper-growth.Prior to joining Scale, Craig was Distinguished Vice President in the Sales Practice for Gartner. While there he advised revenue leaders on their strategic decisions and wrote innovative research on new GTM strategies such as revenue operations and account-based strategy. He joined Gartner in 2019 as part of the acquisition of TOPO where Craig was the co-founder and Chief Analyst.Craig was a Magna Cum Laude graduate of UCLA. When he isn’t talking about GTM strategy, he is spending time with his wife and three young boys.
Becca Chambers leads Scale’s marketing organization. Her team is dedicated to elevating the firm’s brand, amplifying the investment team’s voices, and providing hands-on counsel to portfolio companies navigating critical growth stages.
A Silicon Valley native who grew up during the dot-com boom (and bust), Becca’s path to venture started in sports PR before returning to her Bay Area roots in enterprise tech communications. Her experience spans VC-backed startups, PE-backed scale-ups, and public Fortune 100s—like McAfee, Ivanti, and MobileIron—where she built corporate marketing teams, led major rebrands, and navigated numerous acquisitions from both sides of the table. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and both an MA and BA from USC (Fight On!).
Known to some as "Becca from LinkedIn," she’s a proud "word nerd" whose content on communications and personal branding reaches millions every month. In 2025, she was ranked the #1 female creator in Sales & Marketing on LinkedIn, and is a frequent speaker on the power of personal brand in the age of AI. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, and Fortune.
Becca is also a vocal neurodiversity advocate, drawing from her experience as an executive with ADHD and a parent to neurodivergent children. Outside of Scale, she co-hosts the acclaimed Under Embargo podcast and co-runs the San Francisco Pancreatic Cancer Action Network affiliate with her mother and sister, where they have raised over $2 million for pancreatic cancer research.
In her free time, Becca enjoys tending to her dozens of houseplants, feeding the "murder" of 23 neighborhood crows with her son, and leaning into whatever ADHD hyperfixation interests her that month (all while surviving the daily chaos of a household with two kids, three cats, and a dog).
