Supplier · United States
Scale AI
HQ San FranciscoFounded 2016
US AI data and evaluation company; prime on DIU's Thunderforge AI planning prototype.
Funding8 rounds · $15.90B
- Equity raised
- $15.90B
- Latest
- $14.30BStrategic · Jun 12, 2025
- Last valuation
- $29.00B?Basis not stated · Strategic · Jun 12, 2025
| Announced | Stage | Valuation | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2019 | Series C | $1.00B | Basis not stated |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Series D | $3.50B | Post-money |
| Apr 13, 2021 | Series E+ | $7.30B | Basis not stated |
| May 21, 2024 | Series E+ | $13.80B | Basis not stated |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Strategic | $29.00B | Basis not stated |
- $14.30BJun 12, 2025
- Series E+Led by AccelWith Amazon, AMD Ventures, Cisco Investments, Coatue Management, DFJ Growth, Elad Gil, Founders Fund, Greenoaks, Index Ventures, Intel Capital, Meta Platforms, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global Management, WCM Investment Management, Wellington Management, Y CombinatorValuation $13.80B?Confirmed$1.00BMay 21, 2024
- Series E+With Coatue Management, Durable Capital Partners, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Wellington Management, Y CombinatorValuation $7.30B?Confirmed$325MApr 13, 2021
- $155MDec 1, 2020
- $100MAug 5, 2019
- $18.0MAug 7, 2018
- SeedSpeculativeUndisclosedJul 25, 2016
- $4.5M2017
Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.
Programs2 programs
Programs2
| Program | Role | Program status | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Sustainment Decision Tool | Teammate | Development | Reported |
| Thunderforge | Prime | Development | Confirmed |
- Teammate · Development
Capabilities1
| Technology | Role | Maturity | TRL | Notes | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI course-of-action generation and wargaming | Developer | Prototype | — | — | Confirmed |
Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.
Sources15
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Profile4
- 1
Gallatin AI · Jul 15, 2026 · Supports Organization
“Scale AI joins the program as a named teammate.”
- 2OtherScale AI - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org · Supports Organization · founded year
“Founded2016; 10 years ago”
- 3
Scale AI · Supports Organization · name
“Reliable AI Systems for Critical Decisions | Scale AI”
- 4DatabaseScale AI — hq city
Supports Organization · hq city
“Location:San Francisco,California,United States”
Technologies1
- 5
Defense Innovation Unit · Mar 5, 2025 · Supports Organization, Organization technology
“The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded a prototype contract to Scale AI for Thunderforge”
Funding10
- 6
Scale AI · Jun 12, 2025 · Supports Funding round · post money valuation usd
“a significant new investment from Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) that values Scale at over $29 billion”
- 7
Reuters · Jun 12, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“Meta will take a 49% stake for $14.3 billion, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
- 8
Scale AI · May 21, 2024 · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd
“The financing, a mix of primary and secondary, is led by existing investor Accel with nearly all of our existing investors participating: Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Greenoaks, and Wellington Management.”
- 9
Fortune · Apr 13, 2021 · Supports Funding round · post money valuation usd
“has been valued at $7.3 billion in its latest funding round”
- 10
Scale AI · Apr 13, 2021 · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount
“Additional new investors in the round include Wellington Management and Durable Capital followed by existing investors Coatue, Index, Founders Fund, and YC.”
- 11
Scale AI · Dec 1, 2020 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd
“Scale has raised $155M at a post-money valuation north of $3.5B led by Tiger Global.”
- 12
Scale AI · Aug 5, 2019 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd
“Scale has raised $100m at a valuation of over $1B.”
- 13
Index Ventures · Aug 7, 2018 · Supports Funding round · amount
“a $4.5 million Series A in May 2017 led by Accel and Y Combinator”
- 14
TechCrunch · Supports Funding round
“closed a $100 million Series C round of financing led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Coatue Management, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Thrive Capital”
- 15
Tracxn · Supports Funding round
“Jul 25, 2016 | Undisclosed | Seed”
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