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Scale Venture Partners Bet on the Awkward Part of Growth
The Bay Area firm built its business around a narrow, uncomfortable moment: when customers have arrived, but the machine has not. Its answer mixes Series A and B capital with benchmarks, operators and unusually direct advice.
myRiva
myRiva (formerly Onriva) is a Foster City-based business travel marketplace that uses patented AI to aggregate airfares, hotels and ground transport from more than two million suppliers into one open booking platform. Aimed at small and mid-sized companies, it pairs machine-driven fare matching with 24/7 US-based live agents, real-time traveler dashboards and corporate policy controls, positioning itself as a lower-friction alternative to legacy corporate travel tools.
Meijie Wang
Meijie Wang is the co-founder and CEO of MetaNovas, an AI-driven biotech that designs functional peptides for skincare, supplements and drug discovery. A former NVIDIA AI infrastructure engineer who built VR games and worked on AI at Stanford's School of Medicine, he now runs a Silicon Valley and Shanghai operation whose knowledge-graph platform aims to compress the decade-long hunt for new bioactive ingredients into something far shorter. MetaNovas counts L'Oreal, Beiersdorf, Haleon, Takeda and Unilever among its partners and raised a Series A led by GL Ventures.
BrightEdge
BrightEdge is an enterprise SEO and content performance platform that turns the chaos of search into a measurable system of record. Founded in 2007 by Jim Yu and Lemuel Park, it built one of the largest proprietary data sets in marketing - billions of pages and keywords - and pairs it with an AI engine (DataMind) to power products like Data Cube, ContentIQ, Autopilot and AI Catalyst. Used by thousands of brands including a majority of the Fortune 100, BrightEdge has pivoted hard into measuring and optimizing for AI-driven search experiences like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Replit
Replit is a browser-based software creation platform that has evolved from a collaborative cloud IDE into one of the leading agentic AI coding companies. Its Replit Agent lets anyone - engineer or not - go from a natural language prompt to a deployed, production-ready application. Headquartered in Foster City, California, the company now serves more than 40 million users and reached a $9B valuation in 2026.