Scale-Up Venture Capital

Scale-Up is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in making minority investments in late and growth-stage companies, primarily focusing on sectors such as artificial intelligence, fintech, real estate tech, data analytics, and the sharing economy. With a team of experienced managing and venture partners, Scale-Up has invested in nearly 100 technology companies, many of which have achieved unicorn or decacorn status. The firm aims to support startups in the United States, targeting diverse industries including software, e-commerce, cybersecurity, and robotics. As a registered investment adviser, Scale-Up is dedicated to fostering innovation and growth in the technology sector.

Nimrod Gindi

Venture Partner

Ilyah Pashkovsky

Founding Partner

Lilia Shirman

Venture Partner

16 past transactions

ISA Saúde

Series A in 2022
ISA lab is to deliver the best solution for health and offers a humanized service. ISA is an online platform where one can select the process like examination, test, or vaccine. Then schedule and make payment online, receive ISA wherever one wants. Finally, they offer a facility to check the result online and rate their service.

Spot.IM

Series E in 2021
OpenWeb, formerly known as Spot.IM, aims to enhance online conversations by fostering healthy dialogue and reducing toxicity through the use of AI and machine learning. The platform collaborates with over 700 leading publishers and engages approximately 100 million active users each month. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has established a presence in New York City and Tel Aviv, employing more than 100 individuals. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures.

Robinhood

Funding Round in 2020
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online discount stock brokerage based in Menlo Park, California, providing self-directed investors with a platform to trade stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies without paying commissions. Founded in 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, the company aims to democratize access to financial markets, making trading more accessible and user-friendly through its mobile application. Robinhood's services include not only equity and cryptocurrency trading but also features like dividend reinvestment, fractional shares, and IPO access. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction-based fees by routing user orders to market makers. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., it continuously evolves its offerings by integrating proprietary technology into its app-based platform.

Raft Technologies

Series C in 2019
Raft Technologies is a telecommunication company that features a low latency, transcontinental communications system designed for radio communications, networking, management, and monitoring systems. It specializes in communication, low latency network, HFT, algorithms, and trading. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Silk

Corporate Round in 2018
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

First

Venture Round in 2018
First is a leading digital assets group in Europe, specializing in developer-driven stablecoin payment solutions that facilitate cryptocurrency transactions for merchants. The platform allows businesses to seamlessly implement cryptocurrency payments, gaining control over transaction management, treasury operations, and compliance measures such as anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer protocols. First's approach enables quick onboarding for merchants through payment processors, allowing them to offer both local currency and cryptocurrency payment options. The group's expertise is rooted in a team of Fintech and Cyber Security professionals, focusing on the incubation of innovative financial products, direct investments in blockchain companies, and partnerships with major financial institutions to drive participation in the evolving digital landscape.

Spot.IM

Series C in 2017
OpenWeb, formerly known as Spot.IM, aims to enhance online conversations by fostering healthy dialogue and reducing toxicity through the use of AI and machine learning. The platform collaborates with over 700 leading publishers and engages approximately 100 million active users each month. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has established a presence in New York City and Tel Aviv, employing more than 100 individuals. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures.

Sedona Ltd.

Secondary Market in 2017
Sedona Systems has created NetFusion, the first multi-layer application platform, focusing on optimization & control of the optical and IP layers (L0-L3) of network operators. Enabling both optically-aware IP routing and IP-informed optical switching, our applications double effective WAN capacity, boost agility, availability and flexibility – and save up to 80% of core network costs over 5 years. Based on a centralized open-source software tools, NetFusion connects to all major vendors’ equipment through SDN controllers or management systems. It then optimizes key tasks through dynamic, automatic management of both optical and IP resources.

Silk

Series F in 2017
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

ColorChip

Series F in 2016
ColorChip Ltd. specializes in the development of integrated optical components and sub-systems tailored for networking and communication applications, primarily serving the Datacom and Telecom markets. Founded in 2001 and based in Yokneam, Israel, the company offers a range of products, including transceivers for high-speed Ethernet links, data center interconnections, and various optical networking applications. Its technology is rooted in Application Specific Photonic Integrated Circuits (ASPICs) and robust planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology, enabling the creation of dense multi-lane photonic integrated circuits and other optical solutions. ColorChip's products also encompass PLC splitter chips and wafers for FTTX networks, as well as components for both analog and digital passive optical networks. With a focus on scalability and advanced manufacturing processes, ColorChip supports critical infrastructure in the telecommunications industry, particularly for data centers and enterprise networking.

Sedona Ltd.

Series B in 2016
Sedona Systems has created NetFusion, the first multi-layer application platform, focusing on optimization & control of the optical and IP layers (L0-L3) of network operators. Enabling both optically-aware IP routing and IP-informed optical switching, our applications double effective WAN capacity, boost agility, availability and flexibility – and save up to 80% of core network costs over 5 years. Based on a centralized open-source software tools, NetFusion connects to all major vendors’ equipment through SDN controllers or management systems. It then optimizes key tasks through dynamic, automatic management of both optical and IP resources.

Raft Technologies

Series B in 2016
Raft Technologies is a telecommunication company that features a low latency, transcontinental communications system designed for radio communications, networking, management, and monitoring systems. It specializes in communication, low latency network, HFT, algorithms, and trading. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Siklu

Series D in 2015
Siklu Communication Ltd. is a company based in Petach Tikva, Israel, that specializes in developing gigabit throughput E-band and V-band radios for a diverse range of clients, including service providers, mobile operators, enterprises, and government entities. Founded in 2007, Siklu offers various wireless communication solutions, such as small cell backhaul, LTE/LTE-A backhaul, WiFi backhaul, and business broadband connectivity. The company focuses on providing reliable millimeter wave radio products that support 5G backhaul applications, enhancing connectivity in urban, suburban, and rural settings. Siklu's technology is designed to deliver scalable, multigigabit capacity and performance, making it suitable for smart city networks, wireless security networks, enterprise connectivity, and residential broadband services.

Start.io

Secondary Market in 2015
StartApp Inc. is a mobile advertising and data company that offers a comprehensive advertising platform for mobile application developers, advertisers, and publishers. The company specializes in delivering targeted and personalized advertising to individuals interacting with various apps. Its key offerings include Brains & Beauty, a mobile advertising platform; SODA, a social data platform that enhances user insights; Immerse, a virtual reality advertising solution; and Digital Content, which facilitates user-brand interactions. Additionally, StartApp provides a software developer kit for ad display and Mobilechain, a blockchain platform designed for mobile applications. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, StartApp has established a global presence with offices in major cities including San Francisco, Kiev, São Paulo, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, and others. The company collaborates with over 350,000 applications and manages a database of more than 1 billion mobile users worldwide, helping partners leverage data to enhance their mobile strategies.

Silk

Series E in 2014
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Altair Semiconductor

Series F in 2014
Altair Semiconductor Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Hod Hasharon, Israel, specializing in the development of LTE chipsets for global Tier-1 operators. Founded in 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives, the company focuses on providing integrated chipsets for various cellular IoT applications, including Cat-M1, NB1, and CAT-1 IoT chipsets, as well as high-speed broadband access solutions like CAT-4 and CAT-12 chipsets. Altair's products support a wide array of applications, such as smart metering, wearables, connected vehicles, and security systems. The company collaborates with global original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers to deliver modules tailored for both industrial and consumer IoT uses. Altair Semiconductor operates as a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, enhancing its capabilities in the rapidly evolving semiconductor market.
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