Early-Stage Enterprise Software Investors - Scale Venture Partners

We are very excited to announce our investment in humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab founded by Eric Zelikman and Georges Harik. We partnered with them at the earliest stages when they were just getting their idea off the ground (before they...

The last decade of ad tech was built for pages, feeds, and apps. You scroll. You click. You land. The ad is some rectangle, and the business model is: show enough of them to subsidize whatever the user is doing.
And whatever the user is doing happens to be an awful lot. Advertising is the business model of the internet. It funds search, social media, news, entertainment, email, and most of the free services people use every day. Global digital ad spend is over...

Vertical markets are having their day in the sun, thanks to enthusiasm driven by AI and the availability of LLM-based foundation models. I never would have imagined every venture fund having a vertical strategy even three years ago, but here we are....

Every product manager or software engineer knows this disaster scenario. They’ve been building a product for months, leapt through every hoop of organizational sign-off, conducted endless user interviews and A/B tests, and the day before launch an email...