Scale Venture Partners

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

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: scalevp.com/blog/announcin…

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.

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.

Scale CMO @BeccaHasADHD ✨ shared her perspective in @FastCompany's guide to personal brands in the workplace. You can read the full story here: fastcompany.com/91603200/manag…

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: axios.com/pro/enterprise…

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: scalevp.com/blog/announcin…

@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: eventbrite.com/e/inside-summi…

Congratulations to @smakani and the entire @Motive_inc team on securing $1.3B+ in growth financing.

Motive is the AI platform for physical operations, helping customers prevent collisions and keep vehicles and equipment running.

Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

Scale Partner @aniehenke and other VCs spoke to @BusinessInsider to explain why they're taking a closer look at some startups' ARR claims.

You can read the full story here: businessinsider.com/why-vcs-are-qu…

At @stepconference SF last week, Scale Partner @jkauf_mann spoke on how founders pick a first GTM motion. @webflow CRO @AdrianKranz and @chargebee CMO @Guy_Marion joined him on what has to change once paying customers arrive.

Thanks to Brian Sparkes and the Step SF team for having us. A few snapshots below!

Ahead of Outside Lands, we hosted a coworking café at Wave Collective, bringing together over 70 builders and operators to close out the week before the weekend's festivities.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by. See you all at the next one!

.@aniehenke spoke with @BusinessInsider about why the IPO pipeline remains thin for venture-backed tech companies, even as a handful of massive listings grab headlines.

Read the full story: markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/te…

We're excited to announce the promotion of @siddharthvader_ to Partner!

Siddharth invests in AI infrastructure, applications, and physical AI, partnering with founders building across both software and the physical world.

Congratulations, Siddharth.

Congrats to Scale portfolio company @GeneralistAI on being named one of @BusinessInsider's most promising robotics startups of 2026.

@siddharthvader_ nominated Generalist for building AI software that can control different robots across factories, labs, commercial spaces, and homes.

See the full list from Business Insider: businessinsider.com/robotics-tech-…

Congratulations to the @coderabbitai team on their $143 million Series C!

Scale led CodeRabbit’s Series B less than a year ago. Since then, the company has grown revenue more than 5x year-over-year.

Co-Founder & CEO @harjotsgill talks with Scale investor @avitus about CodeRabbit's work "continuously shipping the future" of coding.

A few weeks ago, we teamed up with @paraformtalent for a night of arcade games, dinner, and drinks at Free Gold Watch alongside some of the most ambitious students spending their summer in the Bay Area.

The room was full of PhD students, researchers, engineers, builders, and future founders from top universities and companies. The kind of people who are genuinely excited about startups, AI, deep tech, and building ambitious things.

If this is up your alley and you'd like to be part of future events, shoot us a note. We'd love to meet you!

Scale Partner @aniehenke joined @YourProtagonist on the Fund/Build/Scale podcast to dig into domain obsession as a moat, and what he looks for in founders who aren’t traditional technologists. You can listen here: youtu.be/o0nNQgQBjFk

Last week, A.J. Aldana and @siddharthvader_ joined First Commits to host a dinner and candid conversations with founding engineers, sharing their experiences with fellow startup founders about what's working and what problems they're tackling.

A few snapshots from the night 👇 If you're building in the Bay Area, we'd love to have you at our next event.

Business Insider asked a group of venture capitalists, including Scale’s @MaxwellAbram, to nominate the year's most promising legal startups valued at less than $1 billion.

Congrats to Scale portco @gcai, @manifest_os, and the rest of the companies for making the list!