Scale AI

Scale AI is an artificial intelligence company making an API for validating and training data for applications that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2016 by Alexander Wang. Their API includes the following data features: Sensor Fusion (annotation for LIDAR/RADAR/camera data), semantic segmentation, 2D boxes/polygons, video, 3D cuboids, lines & splines, keypoints, and data categorization.

Funding

Seed

On August 22, 2016 Scale AI completed their seed funding round with $120,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator.

Series A

On May 23, 2017 Scale AI completed their series A funding round with $4.5 million in funding from Accel (lead investor), Y Combinator, Arena Ventures, Nat Friedman, Ilya Sukhar, Guillermo Rauch, Greg Brockman, and Charlie Cheever.

Series B

On August 7, 2018 Scale AI completed their series B funding round with $18 million in funding from Index Ventures (lead investor), Y Combinator, Accel, Justin Kan, and Drew Houston.

Series C

On August 5, 2019 Scale AI completed their series C funding round with $100 million in funding from Founder Fund (lead investor), Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Coatue Management, Accel, Mike Krieger, Kevin Systrom, and Adam D'Angelo.