AI tools are leaving SMBs behind. Motion is fixing that. How enterprises implement and use AI today is unattainable for SMBs. AI tools have a high barrier to entry, with complex initial setups and integrations, as well as a high cost of long-term management. Business owners should not have to become AI experts to take… The post Announcing our investment in Motion appeared first on Scale Venture Partners.| Scale Venture Partners
Hello Patient helps medical practices run leaner, grow faster, and deliver better care by handling end-to-end patient communications across voice, text, and chat. Gone are the days of patients calling in at their time of need only to get stuck in a queue and left on hold. Hello Patient’s AI agent works 24/7 to answer… The post Hello, Hello Patient! Announcing our investment in Hello Patient’s Series A appeared first on Scale Venture Partners.| Scale Venture Partners
For builders and investors of AI app companies, there are two frequently posed and equally defeating questions that the industry cannot seem to shake: Won’t the model providers build this? And, is this a ChatGPT wrapper? Two and a half years into founders building on LLMs, an obvious third question has emerged: Who cares? To…| Scale Venture Partners
If you’re wondering why AI hasn’t radically transformed financial services yet, you’re not alone. At a recent dinner with leaders from top banks and cutting-edge fintechs, enthusiasm and investment in AI are sky-high, but the gap between promise and real-world progress remains wide. Financial services is one of the most data rich, process-heavy industries, with… The post Where’s my AI banker? Why financial services is lagging on AI adoption appeared first on Scale Venture Partners.| Scale Venture Partners
To date, much of the chatter about AI in GTM has focused on changes to how we sell: how we can now use AI SDRs, AI autodialers, AI content generation platforms, etc. And while these discussions are critical to keeping pace in a fast-changing landscape, folks often fail to pay similar attention to the changes…| Scale Venture Partners
Every company eventually reaches a point where spreadsheets no longer cut it. They start missing budgets. The board asks more complex questions. Department leaders need real-time metrics. This occurs as the underlying business complexity increases significantly with the scaling of the number of customers, products, or pricing models. The finance team is buried, stitching together… The post Announcing our investment in Abacum appeared first on Scale Venture Partners.| Scale Venture Partners
We believe in the future Thread AI is building—and we’re proud to be part of their Series A. Over the past year, AI agents have demonstrated their potential to automate domain-specific workflows in areas like medicine, law, and software development. However, most businesses also rely on bespoke processes that require customization beyond what is available… The post Announcing our investment in Thread appeared first on Scale Venture Partners.| Scale Venture Partners
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is plagued by two major problems: project delays and cost overruns. Of major projects, only 8.5% finish on time and on budget. Whether building a bridge or renovating a bathroom, talk to anyone and they have first-hand experience with these problems. It is so commonplace that it is…| Scale Venture Partners
Capturing part of the value generated for customers has always been a north star in pricing. If customers don’t benefit from using your product, they shouldn’t pay you for it. On the flip side, if they’re getting tons of value from it, you should be getting paid accordingly. It’s about aligning incentives, and different pricing…| Scale Venture Partners
Over the past year, AI phone calling has leapt from Hayes Valley hackathon project to remarkable market traction. Today, most of this revenue is concentrated in upmarket customer service organizations. This concentration is reflective of the historic implementation demands of AI calling and also of the product approaches that venture dollars have flowed towards to…| Scale Venture Partners
Scale is excited to announce our investment in Freed’s Series A. Freed frees clinicians from their #1 source of burnout: clinical documentation. Historically, doctors (and nurses, and physician assistants, and therapists, and…) spent their pajama time after a long day’s work finishing up notes and burning 5+ hours a week on documentation requirements. Freed’s AI…| Scale Venture Partners
Scale is thrilled to announce our lead investment in Unwrap’s Series A. Historically, product owners have relied heavily on quantitative insights to inform their roadmaps, but their ability to derive metrics from unstructured data sources has been limited. As a result, many decisions had to be made based on anecdotal evidence. With Unwrap, companies can…| Scale Venture Partners
For the last two decades, vertical software has sat in the shadow of horizontal software. Despite some fantastic success stories like Veeva, Procore, and Toast, the SaaS and cloud evolution has been written by leaders in marketing, HR, and finance. Vertical software has been largely dismissed by the venture community as a difficult play due…| Scale Venture Partners
From hand-drawn sketches and scrapped prototypes to powerful AI-driven simulations at lightning speed, hardware product development has come a long way. As former hardware engineers ourselves, we know firsthand the grueling processes that have historically stymied innovation. Today, we’re betting on a future where AI and cloud computing are game-changers for hardware engineers. Before the…| Scale Venture Partners
From enhancing diagnostics to streamlining administrative tasks. Explore how AI in healthcare promises improved efficiency, accuracy, and patient outcomes.| Fingent
Over the past 2 years, AI has seen ideas move from research to industry implementation at a record breaking pace. This phenomenon continues to motivate our ongoing event series, New Ideas in AI, which brings together today’s most relevant AI authors, founders, and practitioners. This month, we had the honor of featuring Archit Sharma…| Scale Venture Partners
Discover the best AI apps that will revolutionize your iPhone or Android experience. Boost productivity and enhance creativity| PhysCode
At present, these are my most used web/desktop/mobile apps. Readwise: Save, read, comment, remark, and share. I couldn’t ask more for this Pocket and Instapaper replacement. Lex.Page: is…| On my Om
Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Tavus. The company is a leader in productizing the latest research in AI video generation – and applying this to enable customers to speak directly to each and every end-user at scale. In its focus on video generation, Tavus is, of course, in good company,…| Scale Venture Partners
Large language models are poised to have an immediate effect on how businesses use software. While the exact scale and impact of AI is not a topic we aim to wrestle with here, the intuitive applicability of this technology across markets seems to have almost single-handedly pulled the broader startup community out of the post-2021…| Scale Venture Partners