# Scale Venture Partners

> Scale Venture Partners is a Bay Area venture firm focused on early-stage AI and B2B software. It typically enters after a startup has won its first customers but before its sales motion is predictable, leading Series A and B rounds with initial checks of roughly $5 million to $50 million. Its pitch combines capital from a $900 million eighth fund with go-to-market operators, a founder network, and benchmarking data assembled from about 1,000 startups across 10,000 quarters.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** Foster City, United States
- **Founders:** Kate Mitchell (Co-founder and Partner Emeritus)
- **Team size:** LinkedIn lists 11-50 employees and 91 associated profiles; supplied company data also lists 91 employees.
- **Products:** Series A and B venture investment, Go-to-market advisory, Scale Studio and GTM benchmarks, Founder and operator community, Research and market intelligence
- **Notable:** Raised a $900 million Fund VIII in 2022 and reports approximately $2.8 billion to $2.9 billion in assets under management., Reports 11 portfolio IPOs over 25 years., Backed enterprise-software companies including DocuSign, Box, HubSpot, BILL and JFrog before or during their growth into public companies.

## Products & services

- **Series A and B venture investment** — Lead and follow-on capital for early-stage AI and B2B software companies, with typical initial checks of $5 million to $50 million.
- **Go-to-market advisory** — Hands-on access to former CROs, CMOs, CFOs and other operators who have helped scale software businesses from early revenue to hundreds of millions of dollars.
- **Scale Studio and GTM benchmarks** — Benchmarking and operating guidance drawn from approximately 1,000 startups and 10,000 quarters of data, including growth, efficiency, churn and burn metrics.
- **Founder and operator community** — Councils, workshops, a GTM Summit, talent resources and introductions for hiring and selling.
- **Research and market intelligence** — Public reports and investment theses covering cybersecurity, AI applications, vertical software, developer tools and go-to-market practice.

## Achievements

- Raised a $900 million Fund VIII in 2022 and reports approximately $2.8 billion to $2.9 billion in assets under management.
- Reports 11 portfolio IPOs over 25 years.
- Backed enterprise-software companies including DocuSign, Box, HubSpot, BILL and JFrog before or during their growth into public companies.
- Built startup benchmarks from approximately 1,000 companies and 10,000 quarters of operating data.
- Co-founder Kate Mitchell helped co-author the IPO section of the 2012 JOBS Act and later received the NVCA American Spirit Award.
- Open-sourced the implementation of its experimental website chatbot in 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Published research on the AI data-center capacity squeeze and opportunities to extract more compute from existing infrastructure.
- **2025-12** — Listed recruiting marketplace Paraform as a portfolio investment.
- **2025-11** — Added legal AI company GC AI and application company Range to its public portfolio.
- **2025-10** — Added frontier AI lab Humans& and Prime Security to its public portfolio.
- **2025-05** — Announced its Series A investment in identity-first cloud detection company ClearVector and described its internal AI-assisted investment decision engine.

## Links

- Website: https://www.scalevp.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scale-venture-partners
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/scalevp
- GitHub: https://github.com/scaleapi
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scalevp

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Last updated: 2026-08-15