Scale Venture Partners

Early-stage VC focused on AI and B2B software. We back Founders who can go the distance.

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

Our Partner @siddharthvader_ on what it will take to get 100 million robots doing useful work:
https://t.co/XUw3GTpH6q

[Siddharth @siddharthvader_]

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[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

Last night, @savant_vc and @scalevp brought together 20 reporters, investors and founders at Birdsong to talk about where Physical AI is headed.

We spent a lot of the night on what this wave can learn from self-driving and LLMs, how the market might evolve, and what we’re seeing on the ground.

Always great to bring together Savant portfolio founders & Residents: @PrannayKhosla (Guild Robotics), @aurorafeng_01 (Neural Motion), Da Fang (Shepherd Robotics), Gabe Rodriguez (Puppet Robotics), Jimmy Jin, Arun Venkatraman & Nikhil J Joshi (stealth)

Alongside investors: Siddharth Ramakrishnan (@scalevp), Vikram Ramakrishnan (A*), @CorinneMRiley (@GreylockVC), @McCreadieWill (@redglassvc), @Chengdavid923 (@costanoavc)

And reporters and leaders in Physical AI: @ryajetha (@BusinessInsider), @geneteare (@crunchbasenews), @RachylJones (@sfstandard), @E0M (@Generalistai), Luis Rayas (@ChefRobotics)

Thanks so much @nehajewalikar for co-hosting this with us and making it an A+ experience for everyone.

If you’re interested in a dinner like this, reply “dine me” here to get on the invite list!

[Katie Roof @Katie_Roof]

Week 3 of VC Insider and each one has been better than the last. Check out @thebenbergman on neo labs, my recap of Menlo’s 50th anniversary VIP gala & a new feature, “post of the week.” 🥇 to @rodriscoll https://t.co/4d7IDMjC9F

[Eric Newcomer @EricNewcomer]

Stacked discussion group leader lineup for our Cerebral Valley AI Summit https://t.co/In5FaPuAo2

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

Our Partner @jkauf_mann joined @ScottMcGrew on Sand Hill Road to discuss companies combining AI with hardware and the startups he thinks Silicon Valley is overlooking.

Listen here: https://t.co/XhieQurjTA

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

@hassaanraza (Co-Founder & CEO, @tavus) joined @tbpn to talk about Griffin, their new Human Interaction Model.

[Javier Redondo @jvrdnd]

Stoked to partner with @20thr and invest in the development platform that moves at the speed of the new SDLC

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

We’re excited to lead @namespacelabs's $42M Series B as they build the development platform for the agentic software engineering era.

Developers have always worked from a laptop holding their carefully accumulated environment, with CI turning the code into working software. Coding agents break that model, both by increasing the volume and concurrency a platform has to support and because an agent often needs a build or test result before it can decide what to do next. Every slow run delays the next iteration.

Namespace is a development platform designed to serve engineering teams and fleets of coding agents alike. Its devboxes give every agent an isolated workspace that starts fast and keeps useful state from one iteration to the next. Namespace also operates its own infrastructure, which lets it schedule work close to the dependencies and build artifacts it can reuse.

We’re especially proud to support CEO and Founder @20thr, who built a development platform from the ground up as a principal engineer at Google. Frontier AI teams like SpaceXAI and Ramp are already building on Namespace.

Read Partner Javier Redondo’s post on how Namespace is unlocking the new software development lifecycle: https://t.co/g2aZCImI69

[Hugo Santos @20thr]

Today, I'm excited to share that we've raised a $42M Series B led by @scalevp, with participation from @NEA, @20vcfund and others, bringing our total funding to $65M.

The next 100 billion commits are coming faster than any infrastructure was built to handle.

We're building, from the ground up, the developer platform for this next wave of software development.

We already power software development for @spacexai, @tryramp, @ElevenLabs, @SierraPlatform , @framer, @TrustVanta, and more than 1,000 of the world's most ambitious companies.

In the last 12 months, demand has surged, with total revenue growing 8x. We will use the funds to accelerate product development, expand our data centers, and continue hiring world-class talent.

[Hassaan Raza @hassaanraza]

Yesterday we previewed Griffin, a Human Interaction Model capable of seeing, hearing, sounding, and looking like a human does. There have been a lot of questions, so I wanted to take a moment to share our thoughts.

By way of introduction: Tavus is a research lab focused on enabling machines to meet us where we are, and to understand the nuances of how we communicate beyond words.

Griffin, our latest model, isn’t publicly available yet. Yesterday’s announcement was a limited research preview to demonstrate what the model is capable of. With AI progressing so quickly, we prefer to share breakthroughs openly and in real-time as we work on a safe public release.

Face-to-face is how we evolutionarily communicate, it carries the most meaning and intent, and we want computers to be able to help with work that benefits from that emotional understanding, expression, and immersion. Some examples of the kinds of use cases we care deeply about:

- A tutor that can build understanding of how a student learns, see exactly when there is confusion or disengagement, and adapt the lesson to fit them.

- A health expert that can answer any questions about your upcoming appointment or prescription, at the pace you want, at any time you need, even on a weekend.

- A language coach that you can practice speaking with, that can correct your movement and pronunciation, and help build confidence to have real conversations

- Or the perfect assistant for everyone, that understands intent, knows how you work and remembers what matters.

We’re working with partners on safeguards and systems for disclosure, as well as inviting discussions with officials around wider regulation and safe use. People will always know they’re interacting with AI, while providing an interface that removes the need to ‘speak computer’.

We believe in a future where computers understand us well enough to make technology more accessible, more useful, and make us more capable as humans. That is the world we want to build, and we understand the responsibility to do so safely.

[Tavus @tavus]

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.

48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.

It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

Scale CMO @BeccaHasADHD ✨ shared her perspective in @FastCompany's guide to personal brands in the workplace. You can read the full story here: https://t.co/1GDhv0YxCm

[Range @range_finance]

We've reached a big milestone as one of the fastest growing wealth advisors in the country: Range has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management.

This is a huge checkpoint, but just the beginning of our journey as we scale to serve millions of households across the country.

A huge thanks to our members, our team of incredible Rangers, our custodial partner @Altruist, and our investors at @scalevp @gradientvc @cathayinnov @expa @redseaventures @53stations and @8bitcapital

We have more exciting announcements coming soon... Stay tuned.

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

Our partner @jkauf_mann spoke with Chris Metinko at @axios about outcome-based pricing in software.

While usage is easy to track, outcomes can be subjective. “You’re going to almost need a judge,” Jeremy said, since this model can create conflict between the seller and buyer.

Read the full story: https://t.co/9yDQeQhwQh

[Alex Ren @AlexFellowsFund]

On Day 1 of Fellows Forum 2026, I’ll be joining a panel with a few of our VC friends to discuss where value is accruing in AI:

• @rodriscoll, Partner at @scalevp
• @Nina_Gerson, Partner at @IndexVentures
• @graceisford, Partner at @Lux_Capital
• @CrystalHuang, Partner at @GVteam

Moderated by Matt Vail, Head of VC Partnerships at @OpenAI.

Register to attend here: https://t.co/b2sNcLtDSu

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

Congratulations to @chrisellisdc, Adam Stevenson, and the @thatch_ai team on raising a $108M Series C.

Thatch is a platform that lets employers set a healthcare budget per employee, then helps employees choose the insurance and eligible healthcare expense that work best for them through CHOICE Arrangements.

Read more from Scale: https://t.co/NM4PgSbRgK

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

@gcai Co-Founder and CEO @CeciliaZin and our partner @MaxwellAbram are speaking at Inside Summit in San Francisco this Friday, September 18.

You can join fellow founders, operators, and investors here: https://t.co/dfR4IxgvDm

[Rory O'Driscoll @rodriscoll]

Lucky enough to have @DroneDeploy and @fin_ai close this week. Happy for both teams but genuinely sad to no longer work with @mikewinn and @eoghan. Two examples of savvy big company SaaS acquirers (@procoretech and @salesforce) leaning into AI with acquisitions that can meaningfully move the needle. Congrats to all.

[DroneDeploy @DroneDeploy]

It's official: DroneDeploy is now part of @procoretech.

Today we closed our acquisition by Procore, joining a team building the operating system for construction.

Read more from Procore CEO Ajei Gopal: https://t.co/YkfXNDPYbH