Scale AI key facts
as of Oct 2026- Developer of a data-oriented platform designed to offer training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications.
- Scale AI is valued at approximately $29.0B as of Oct 2026, set at its Series G, Jun 2025; nothing has traded since, per PrivateMarketView’s mark.
- It has raised $15.9B across 10 recorded rounds; the latest was Series G ($14.3B) in Jun 2025.
- Notable investors include Y Combinator, Mana Ventures, Accel, Gaingels, Qualcomm Ventures — 130 tracked in total.
- PrivateMarketView tracks 33 recorded secondary trades in Scale AI shares.
- 1 investment vehicle was formed to buy Scale AI shares in the last 12 months, reporting $2.8M sold to 79 investors, per SEC Form D filings.
- Status: Privately Held (backing).
Valued at $29.0B at its Series G, Jun 2025. Nothing has traded since.
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- ·Post-money valuations for 7 rounds
- ·The complete investor list: 130 names
- ·Watch Scale AI: the Monday email on marks, rounds and moves
Secondary market
monthly marks · 37 months · Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 · endedMembership and data by Private Market View
Scale AI secondary trades
33 on record · Aug 2023 – Aug 202533 trades between Aug 2023 and Aug 2025. Exact dates, prices and structures are available to Pro members.
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Scale AI funding rounds
10 roundsVehicles formed to buy Scale AI shares
secondary demand · SEC Form D filingsIn the last 12 months, 1 investment vehicle were formed to buy Scale AI shares, reporting $2.8M sold to 79 investors. Most recent filing May 2026.
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Scale AI leadership
- Dennis CinelliChief Financial Officer
- Jason DroegeInterim Chief Executive Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
Who backs Scale AI
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Scale AI valuation
Scale AI was valued at $29 billion at its Series G in Jun 2025. That is the last priced event on record: no secondary trade or institutional fund mark has moved the figure since.
Scale AI ranks 9th by valuation and 4th by capital raised among the private companies PrivateMarketView tracks.
How much has Scale AI raised?
Scale AI has raised $15.9 billion across 10 recorded rounds since 2016. The largest was a $4.5 million Series A in Aug 2016; the most recent was a $14.3 billion Series G in Jun 2025. 7 of the rounds disclosed a post-money valuation.
Scale AI secondary market activity
33 secondary trades in Scale AI shares are on record, between Aug 2023 and Aug 2025. The busiest recent months were Apr 2025 (7 prints) and Jul 2025 (3 prints). Exact dates, prices and structures are available to Pro members.
A monthly secondary-market price series for Scale AI runs from Jan 2023 to Jan 2026 (37 months); the most recent quote is from Jan 2026.
Institutional holders and vehicles
In the last 12 months, 1 investment vehicle was formed to buy Scale AI shares, reporting $2.8 million sold to 79 investors, per SEC Form D filings (most recent May 2026).
Scale AI investors
130 investors are on record for Scale AI, including Y Combinator, Mana Ventures, Accel and Gaingels. By type, the record holds 59 venture capital firms and 9 angel investors. The Series G in Jun 2025 drew 10 investors.
Who runs Scale AI
5 people are listed on the Scale AI team: 2 executives and 3 board members, including Jason Droege (Interim Chief Executive Officer) and Dennis Cinelli (Chief Financial Officer). 5 of them have a verified direct contact on file.
Comparable companies
Comparable business/productivity software names by valuation on PrivateMarketView: Genesys ($30 billion), Perplexity AI ($20 billion) and CoreWeave ($18.6 billion).
About Scale AI
Developer of a data-oriented platform designed to offer training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. The company's platform offers a data-centric, end-to-end service to manage the entire machine learning lifecycle by combining technology to develop complex datasets, helping companies to achieve their breakthroughs, and empowering any organization to apply and evaluate artificial intelligence, enabling clients to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence applications through ground data.
- Industry
- Business/Productivity Software
- Sector
- Information Technology
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Founded
- 2016
- Employees
- 1,300
- Website
- scale.com/
- Ownership
- Privately Held (backing)
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