Scale-Up

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

Managing Partner

40 past transactions

Silk

Series B in 2023
Silk is a technology company that focuses on enhancing AI innovation by providing real-time access to production data in the cloud. It integrates high-performance cloud storage into AI workflows, allowing organizations to improve innovation while ensuring performance, reliability, and control over their enterprise data. Silk's agile data delivery system eliminates the need to copy production data, thereby increasing flexibility and enabling the utilization of production data for Generative AI applications. The company holds over 20 technology patents, which support its mission to help customers maximize the advantages of the public cloud with speed and ease. Silk is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts.

Podium

Venture Round in 2022
Podium, Inc. is a technology company based in Provo, Utah, that specializes in customer communication and review management for businesses. Founded in 2013, Podium provides a mobile platform that enables businesses to collect and manage online reviews from customers at the point of transaction. Its features allow users to post reviews across multiple platforms like Google and Facebook, helping businesses to enhance their online reputation and customer engagement. The platform includes tools for managing customer interactions, offering messaging capabilities for businesses to communicate effectively with leads and customers. Through aggregation, analysis, and management of reviews, Podium aims to assist organizations in understanding customer feedback, increasing their online visibility, and influencing purchasing decisions.

ISA Saúde

Series A in 2022
ISA is a digital-first home healthcare provider harnessing technology to bring care directly to patients' home, providing higher quality services at a fraction of the cost. Currently, ISA offers outpatient care, lab work services and immunizations. We are aiming to be the largest non-hospital healthcare company in Latam, by providing access to affordable healthcare services for millions of people through the decentralization of care.

Pipe

Venture Round in 2022
Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams. It connects companies with institutional investors in real-time, making recurring revenues tradable at their annual value. This enables scaling companies to access more cash flow.

Genies

Series C in 2022
Genies empowers individuals to create personalized digital avatars for expression across social media and messaging platforms. It offers tools for users to design avatars, avatar fashion lines, worlds, and interactive experiences, enabling brands to drive engagement through exclusive digital goods.

OpenWeb

Series E in 2021
OpenWeb Ltd., established in 2012 with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, operates an online social network platform that empowers users to build and manage their own communities. The company enables media companies to regain control of audience conversations by hosting them on their own platforms, reducing dependence on external networks. OpenWeb's platform uses AI and machine learning to foster healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create engaged communities. It serves over 700 top-tier publishers and hosts around 100 million active users monthly. The company offers tools for publishers to curate conversations, drive loyalty, and gain insights from first-party data. For advertisers, OpenWeb provides conversation-based advertising options within its marketplace, targeting addressable audiences in brand-safe environments.

Pacaso

Series C in 2021
Pacaso operates a platform for second-home co-ownership that simplifies buying, owning, and managing a shared property. It connects buyers with suitable homes, coordinates the ownership group, and handles the necessary legal processes, while providing technology to schedule stays. Buyers purchase a defined share of a home—for example half—guaranteeing access for a corresponding portion of the year, and Pacaso briefly acquires the remaining portion to resell to vetted buyers. The company provides professional property management and a mobile app to organize bookings and ensure equitable use. By combining real estate partnerships, governance support, and technology, Pacaso aims to democratize access to second-home ownership and reduce the hassle and cost of ownership.

Side

Venture Round in 2021
Side operates an online platform that connects students with flexible, location-based job opportunities, streamlining the hiring process for both students and companies. It offers a location-based job board, admin and management tools, and automates administrative tasks such as invoicing and payments. Side was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Socure

Venture Round in 2021
Socure develops digital identity verification solutions using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its platform authenticates identities in real-time from various online/offline sources, automating customer identification program (CIP), know your customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance initiatives.

PsiQuantum

Series C in 2021
PsiQuantum is developing the world's first utility-scale quantum computer using photonic qubits. This approach aims to deliver a fault-tolerant, general-purpose quantum computer capable of addressing complex challenges in fields such as climate change, healthcare, finance, and more.

Outschool

Series C in 2021
Outschool, Inc. is an online platform that facilitates live, interactive learning experiences for children by connecting motivated learners, parents, and independent teachers. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Outschool offers a diverse array of unique online classes led by certified educators, artists, scientists, and other knowledgeable individuals. The platform allows parents to discover, book, and manage educational activities tailored to their children’s interests and needs. Additionally, it provides teachers with the tools to create class listings, manage enrollments and payments, and reach a broader audience. By enabling small group learning through live video chat, Outschool expands access to enrichment and tutoring at a more affordable cost compared to traditional private tutoring.

OpenWeb

Venture Round in 2021
OpenWeb Ltd., established in 2012 with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, operates an online social network platform that empowers users to build and manage their own communities. The company enables media companies to regain control of audience conversations by hosting them on their own platforms, reducing dependence on external networks. OpenWeb's platform uses AI and machine learning to foster healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create engaged communities. It serves over 700 top-tier publishers and hosts around 100 million active users monthly. The company offers tools for publishers to curate conversations, drive loyalty, and gain insights from first-party data. For advertisers, OpenWeb provides conversation-based advertising options within its marketplace, targeting addressable audiences in brand-safe environments.

Harness

Series C in 2021
Harness is a software company that provides a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform designed to automate and streamline the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform offers AI‑driven pipeline automation, real‑time delivery analytics, automated verification, intelligent testing, security orchestration, and cloud cost management. It supports modern cloud environments, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, enabling engineering and DevOps teams to accelerate deployment cycles, reduce manual effort, and improve software reliability. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on simplifying the process of moving code from artifact to production.

Coursera

Venture Round in 2021
Coursera, Inc. is an online education platform that provides access to a wide range of courses offered by over 140 universities and organizations globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Coursera serves more than 20 million registered learners with over 1,000 courses spanning various fields, including arts, business, computer science, data science, and personal development. The platform enables users to engage with educational content through video lectures, interactive quizzes, and peer-graded assessments, promoting both career advancement and personal enrichment. Coursera operates through three segments: Consumer, Enterprise, and Degrees, with the majority of its revenue coming from individual learners seeking practical skills and professional certifications. The company aims to make education affordable, accessible, and relevant, leveraging technology and data to enhance the learning experience.

Verbit

Series C in 2020
Founded in 2017, Verbit specializes in AI-driven transcription and captioning services. It offers solutions for various industries, including education, legal, media, and enterprise, making audio and video content searchable, accessible, and actionable.

Robinhood

Funding Round in 2020
Robinhood is a fintech company that provides an online and mobile app-based discount stock brokerage for self-directed investors, offering zero-commission trading of stocks, options, ETFs and cryptocurrencies. The platform also supports cash management and aims to democratize access to financial markets through a single app built on proprietary technology. It designs and delivers its own products and services on an integrated platform, expanding into features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, dividend reinvestment and fraud detection, with ongoing development of cryptocurrency trading and derivatives as part of its modern financial services offering.

SpotOn

Series C in 2020
SpotOn is a technology company founded in 2017 by Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in providing innovative software and payment solutions tailored for small and midsize businesses. SpotOn offers a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that includes tools for payments, point-of-sale systems, marketing, website development, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, and review management. By integrating these services, SpotOn aims to enhance operational efficiency and customer engagement for its clients. The company's mission is to empower businesses by delivering high-quality solutions at fair prices, supported by personalized local service.

Dremio

Series C in 2020
Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

6Sense

Series C in 2020
6sense is a developer of a predictive intelligence platform that enhances revenue growth for organizations. The company utilizes artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to provide comprehensive visibility across the customer journey, from brand awareness to revenue generation. Its platform captures anonymous buying signals and buyer intent data, allowing sales, marketing, and customer success teams to target the right accounts effectively. By recommending optimal channels and messages, 6sense removes guesswork and inefficiencies from the sales process, leading to improved pipeline quality, accelerated sales velocity, and higher conversion rates. Through its innovative approach, 6sense aims to empower revenue teams to grow revenue predictably and efficiently.

People.ai

Venture Round in 2020
People.ai operates a predictive AI platform that automates sales training, coaching, and CRM sync. It helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover revenue opportunities by capturing customer contacts and activities, driving actionable insights.

Raft Technologies

Series C in 2019
Raft Technologies is a telecommunications company that provides a transcontinental, ultra-low-latency wireless communications system designed for radio communications, networking, management, and monitoring. The system targets financial markets and algorithmic trading firms, enabling ultra-fast data exchange between exchanges and direct delivery of market data between co-located venues. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Raft Technologies focuses on low-latency networks and related algorithms for trading applications.

Arctic Wolf Networks

Series C in 2018
Arctic Wolf Networks offers cloud-native security operations technology, providing Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring services. Its team of concierge security engineers acts as an extension of clients' internal teams, offering tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management to protect valuable business data.

Silk

Corporate Round in 2018
Silk is a technology company that focuses on enhancing AI innovation by providing real-time access to production data in the cloud. It integrates high-performance cloud storage into AI workflows, allowing organizations to improve innovation while ensuring performance, reliability, and control over their enterprise data. Silk's agile data delivery system eliminates the need to copy production data, thereby increasing flexibility and enabling the utilization of production data for Generative AI applications. The company holds over 20 technology patents, which support its mission to help customers maximize the advantages of the public cloud with speed and ease. Silk is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts.

Highspot

Series C in 2018
Highspot is a cloud-based sales enablement platform that helps organizations improve customer engagement and drive revenue. The platform combines intelligent content management, training and coaching, contextual guidance, and engagement analytics to optimize pitches and content. It supports unified sales enablement with features such as semantic search, content recommendations, and CRM integration, along with the creation of sales playbooks and portals for marketing and sales teams. It enables targeting by role, profile, and industry, and provides real-time alerts on how customers interact with content to inform guidance and coaching. Founded in 2012, Highspot is headquartered in Seattle, with an additional office in London.

Upgrade

Series C in 2018
Upgrade operates an online lending platform offering personal loans, the Upgrade Card, credit health monitoring, and educational tools. It serves both mainstream consumers and those underserved by traditional banking, aiming to provide affordable and responsible credit access.

First Group

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.

DataRobot

Venture Round in 2018
DataRobot develops an automated machine learning platform that enables users across various industries to build predictive models. Its cloud-based solution, DataRobot Cloud, offers a project-based curriculum for gaining insights from data scientists. The company also provides DataRobot MLOps for deploying and managing machine learning models, along with enterprise features like flexible deployment and governance in its DataRobot Enterprise solution.

OpenWeb

Series C in 2017
OpenWeb Ltd., established in 2012 with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, operates an online social network platform that empowers users to build and manage their own communities. The company enables media companies to regain control of audience conversations by hosting them on their own platforms, reducing dependence on external networks. OpenWeb's platform uses AI and machine learning to foster healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create engaged communities. It serves over 700 top-tier publishers and hosts around 100 million active users monthly. The company offers tools for publishers to curate conversations, drive loyalty, and gain insights from first-party data. For advertisers, OpenWeb provides conversation-based advertising options within its marketplace, targeting addressable audiences in brand-safe environments.

Sysdig

Series C in 2017
Sysdig develops real-time cloud security platforms that instantly detect and mitigate risks without hindering business operations. Its platform combines runtime insights, AI architecture, and integrations to uncover hidden attack paths, enabling security teams to prioritize critical threats effectively.

August Home

Series C in 2017
August Home Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing smart home access products, primarily through its flagship offering, the August Smart Lock. Founded in 2012 by designer Yves Behar and technology expert Jason Johnson, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. August Home's products utilize encrypted locking technology, allowing users to replace traditional keys with smartphones. This innovation enables homeowners to create virtual keys for various individuals such as house cleaners, dog walkers, and guests, and to manage access durations remotely via smartphones and computers. The company also features August Pro, a division focused on supporting professional smart home installers. August Home operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB, further enhancing its capabilities in the smart home market.

Outreach

Series C in 2017
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that helps organizations manage and optimize interactions across email, voice, and social channels throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform uses machine learning to guide sales representatives to take the right actions, automate repetitive tasks, and personalize communications while tracking sales activity and performance. It supports account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as sequence and task management, email and activity tracking, and insights that analyze buyer sentiment to optimize content and sequences in real time. By integrating automated alerts, collaboration features, and performance analytics, Outreach aims to increase the volume of qualified meetings and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams.

Sedona Systems

Secondary Market in 2017
Sedona Systems specializes in developing advanced network management platforms for service providers. Its flagship product, NetFusion, is a multi-layer application platform that optimizes both optical and IP layers (L0-L3) of networks. By integrating dynamic, automatic management of these resources, Sedona's solution enhances WAN capacity, improves agility and availability, and reduces core network costs by up to 80% over five years. NetFusion connects with major vendors' equipment through SDN controllers or management systems, providing full visibility and control of transport and routing layers.

Cerebras Systems

Series C in 2017
Cerebras Systems Inc. is a technology company that specializes in manufacturing artificial intelligence chips specifically designed for deep learning applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the company is dedicated to creating advanced computing systems that significantly accelerate deep learning tasks. By integrating expertise in computer architecture with machine learning, Cerebras develops innovative technologies that aim to enhance AI performance and transform the landscape of artificial intelligence. Through its unique design principles, the company seeks to push the boundaries of what is possible in AI computing.

ColorChip

Series F in 2016
ColorChip designs and manufactures optical sub-systems and components for datacom and telecom markets. Its products include transceivers, PLC splitter chips, planar lightwave circuits, and industrialized optics, based on Application Specific Photonic Integrated Circuits.

Sedona Systems

Series B in 2016
Sedona Systems specializes in developing advanced network management platforms for service providers. Its flagship product, NetFusion, is a multi-layer application platform that optimizes both optical and IP layers (L0-L3) of networks. By integrating dynamic, automatic management of these resources, Sedona's solution enhances WAN capacity, improves agility and availability, and reduces core network costs by up to 80% over five years. NetFusion connects with major vendors' equipment through SDN controllers or management systems, providing full visibility and control of transport and routing layers.

Raft Technologies

Series B in 2016
Raft Technologies is a telecommunications company that provides a transcontinental, ultra-low-latency wireless communications system designed for radio communications, networking, management, and monitoring. The system targets financial markets and algorithmic trading firms, enabling ultra-fast data exchange between exchanges and direct delivery of market data between co-located venues. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Raft Technologies focuses on low-latency networks and related algorithms for trading applications.

Cybereason

Series C in 2015
Cybereason is a cybersecurity company that provides an endpoint protection and response platform designed to detect, block, investigate, and respond to advanced cyber threats. Its platform combines modules such as Deep Detect & Respond, Deep Prevent, Deep Investigate, Deep Respond, and an anti-ransomware tool called RansomFree. The system uses an automated in-memory graph to identify behavioral patterns across endpoints and reveal the full attack campaign, enabling rapid root-cause analysis and shutdown of threats. The company also offers monitoring, investigation, hunting, analysis, deployment, and training services. Cybereason was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, with offices in London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Siklu

Series D in 2015
Siklu Communication Ltd. is a technology company based in Petach Tikva, Israel, that specializes in developing gigabit throughput E-band and V-band radio solutions. Founded in 2007, Siklu provides a range of millimeter wave wireless connectivity products designed for service providers, mobile operators, and various enterprises, including government and security networks. The company’s offerings encompass small cell backhaul, LTE and WiFi backhaul, business broadband connectivity, and solutions for smart city networks, as well as residential broadband services. Siklu's technology is noted for its scalability, multigigabit capacity, and reliability, making it suitable for deployment in urban, suburban, and rural environments, particularly in 5G backhaul applications.

Start.io

Secondary Market in 2015
Start.io is a global mobile data platform that empowers organizations with direct access to first-party data from over one million apps. It enables data-driven decision-making, behavior prediction, opportunity identification, and strategic business growth.

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 produces integrated Cat-M1 and NB1 IoT chipsets, as well as CAT-1 and CAT-4 chipsets for various cellular IoT and broadband applications. Altair's products are utilized in sectors such as smart metering, wearables, connected vehicles, and smart city infrastructure. The company collaborates with global OEMs and ODMs to deliver modules designed for both industrial and consumer IoT applications. Known for its cutting-edge technology, Altair Semiconductor has established itself as a leader in the ultra-low power mobile chipset market, enabling advancements in mobile communication and connectivity solutions. As of early 2016, Altair operates as a subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
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