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Scale AI

An artificial intelligence company making an API for validating and training data for applications.

Contents
Funding Seed Series ASeries B Series C
Timeline
Funding rounds
Products
Acquisitions
SBA Awards
People
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
News
References

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.

Timeline

May 22, 2020
Scale AI releases free lidar dataset to power self-driving car development.

August 2019
Scale AI raises a $100,000,000 series C round from Accel Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Coatue Management, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Spark Capital and Thrive Capital.
August 2018
Scale AI raises a $18,000,000 series B round from Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Y Combinator.
2016
Scale AI was founded.

Funding rounds

Funding round
Funding type
Funding round amount (USD)
Funding round date
Investment
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Scale AI Series C round
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Series C round
100,000,000
August 2019
Founders Fund
Accel Partners
Coatue Management
Index Ventures
Spark Capital
Thrive Capital
Kevin Systrom
Mike Krieger
Adam D'Angelo
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Scale funding round, August 2018
Series B round
18,000,000
August 2018
Index Ventures
Accel Partners
Y Combinator
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People

Name
Role
LinkedIn

Albert Ni

Investor

Alexandr Wang

Founder

Atra Kermani

Employee

Chan Kwon

Employee

Charlie Cheever

Investor

Daniel Levine

Investor

David Kinsella

Employee

Erik Torenberg

Investor

Greg Brockman

Investor

Guido Leandro Maliandi

Employee

Guillermo Rauch

Investor

Ilya Sukhar

Investor

Jeff Arnold

Investor

Jessica McKellar

Investor

Jonathan Swanson

Investor

Liz Wessel

Investor

Monica Bretón

Employee

Nat Friedman

Investor

Nathaniel Herman

Employee

Richard Ni

Employee

Ross Boucher

Investor

Steven Salka

Employee

Suehee Lee

Employee

Tim Abbott

Investor

Viktoriya Pavlenko

Employee

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Further reading

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title
Date
Link

Companies

Company
CEO
Location
Products/Services

News

Title
Author
Date
Publisher
Description
Accel's Dan Levine and Scale's Alexandr Wang will chat about how to create a category on Extra Crunch Live
Jordan Crook
March 22, 2021
TechCrunch
Alexandr Wang has spent the last five years looking to accelerate the development of AI and machine learning algorithms with Scale AI. The company has raised upwards of $270 million since inception, and doesn't show any signs of slowing. That's why we're thrilled to hang out with Wang and Scale AI investor Dan Levine (Accel) [...]
Scale AI, Oceans Supercluster, NGen commit collective $17 million to new projects | BetaKit
Isabelle Kirkwood
February 18, 2021
BetaKit
Three of Canada's Superclusters have committed new funding for projects and initiatives aimed to bolster Canada's innovation ecosystems.
Holt, a Leading Global Fintech Program, Awards a Financial Grant to AI-driven Risk Intelligence Platform Agryo, with the Support of Scale AI
Holt Accelerator Inc
January 26, 2021
www.prnewswire.com:443
/PRNewswire/ -- Holt, a leading Global Fintech Program, has awarded a financial grant to Agryo, an AI-driven blockchain based risk intelligence platform, with...
How artificial intelligence will be used in 2021
Kirsten Korosec
December 31, 2020
TechCrunch
"We're going to start to see a lot of real value and ROI generated by AI across more and more businesses,"
Scale AI hits $3.5B valuation as its turns the AI boom into a venture bonanza
Kirsten Korosec
December 1, 2020
TechCrunch
Scale AI, the four-year-old data labeling startup, has discovered that selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence is big business. The company, which created a visual data labeling platform that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data for companies building machine learning algorithms, has raised [...]
Scale AI Raises $155M in Funding; Valued at Over $3.5 Billion Post-Money
FinSMEs
December 1, 2020
FinSMEs
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Transportation on the ballot, Softbank parks its money in REEF and Tesla Tequila arrives
Kirsten Korosec
November 9, 2020
TechCrunch
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here -- just click The Station -- to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. What.A.Week. Shall we [...]
Amazon Best-Seller "SMALL CHANGES, HUGE RESULTS" Book Launch Ends Tonight (8 June 2020)
June 8, 2020
WebWire
Award-winning Business Coach George Zenon's new book, "Small Changes, Huge Results; How Successful Businesses Grow, Scale and Thrive" hit the Amazon Best Seller lists in Australia, featuring on the Hot New Release lists in the USA, UK and Germany. Launched on 4 June, the book, "Small Changes, Huge Results; How Successful Businesses Grow, Scale and Thrive," shares the tools and strategies to help business owners and entrepreneurs to grow and scale a successful business. "Small Chan...
New Business Book: "SMALL CHANGES, HUGE RESULTS" hits Amazon Best Seller List
June 5, 2020
WebWire
Award-winning Business Coach George Zenon's new book, "Small Changes, Huge Results; How Successful Businesses Grow, Scale and Thrive" is now an Amazon Best Seller in Australia in Business & Investing, and a Hot New Release in the United States, with sales also in the United Kingom and Germany., , , , Launched on 4 June, the book, "Small Changes, Huge Results; How Successful Businesses Grow, Scale and Thrive," shares the tools and strategies to help business owners and entrepreneurs to grow...
Scale AI invests $10 million to create ten AI university chairs across Canada | BetaKit
Isabelle Kirkwood
May 29, 2020
BetaKit
Scale AI is investing $10 million to support the creation of at least ten university chairs dedicated to AI across the country.
Scale AI releases free lidar dataset to power self-driving car development
Kirsten Korosec
May 22, 2020
TechCrunch
High quality data is the fuel that powers AI algorithms. Without a continual flow of labeled data, bottlenecks can occur and the algorithm will slowly get worse and add risk to the system. It's why labeled data is so critical for companies like Zoox, Cruise and Waymo, which use it to train machine learning models [...]
AlayaCare, Dialogue among projects receiving $3.4 million from Scale AI supercluster | BetaKit
Isabelle Kirkwood
May 6, 2020
BetaKit
Quebec-based Supercluster Scale AI has invested $3.4 million into eight projects that have passed all the stages of analysis and approval.
Plotly receives $1.7 million from Scale AI
January 16, 2020
IT Business
Montreal-based Plotly Technologies on Tuesday announced it had received a $1.7 million contribution from Scale AI, the innovation supercluster investing in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and supply chain technology in Canada.
Supercluster Scale AI has chosen 14 projects, invested $32 million since receiving funding | BetaKit
Meagan Simpson
January 15, 2020
BetaKit
Scale AI has publicly invested more than $32 million to date into 14 projects, with the hopes of accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)

References

scale.com
Is a
Company

Company attributes

Industry
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Software
Training
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Business process outsourcing
Big data
Application programming interface (API)
Data labeling software
Location
San Francisco
California
United States
CEO
Alexandr Wang
Crunchbase
crunchbase.com/organiz.../scale-2
Legal name
Scale AI, Inc.
Date incorporated
2016
Investors
Y Combinator
Founders Fund
Index Ventures
Accel Partners
Adam D'Angelo
Kevin Systrom
Mike Krieger
Spark Capital
...
Founded date
2016
Total funding amount (USD)
118,000,000
Latest funding round date
August 2019
Competitors
Labelbox
Hive (machine learning company)

Other attributes

Blog
scaleapi.com/blog

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