We will use our years of experience in scaling a business to help you grow and succeed, as we have with previous entrepreneurs. Choosing a VC is like choosing a member of your team. Entrepreneurs should carefully assess the value-add of potential investors, seeking VCs who know the company's technology and markets, have built a track record of solid successes, and can provide access to a network that will serve the company well through its growth. VCs should also offer a similar operating philosophy to management and be pragmatic and helpful while also respectful that management runs the company on a daily basis. Your VC should be an advocate for your company at all times and especially while sitting in board meetings.

As a venture investor, Scale Venture Partners seeks out opportunities to work with technology and healthcare companies who have the drive and determination to be category leaders. Scale Venture Partners adds value by helping to build management teams, to identify optimal markets or business models, as well as to assist with manufacturing, sales and distribution. Because Scale Venture Partners understands regulatory and capital efficiency considerations, Scale Venture Partners also is adept at organizing clinical development strategies in healthcare.

Scale Venture Partners invests in technology and healthcare companies. Please see the Why ScaleVP/Strategy section of our website for current focus areas.

We invest in companies looking for $5 - 15M from a lead investor. These companies should already have some indications of future market traction, i.e., a validated concept, some early customers and/or early revenues.

Typically, the minimum amount of money Scale Venture Partners invests is approximately $5M.

We have led or co-led all our current investments. We will help a company form a syndicate of quality investors if there are no existing institutional investors.

Yes, normally we join the Board of our portfolio companies. In addition to investing capital, every Managing Director at Scale Venture Partners is an active and involved investor and adds the most value to a company by investing time and attention as a board member.

Scale Venture Partners focuses on building category-leading companies. We look for ways to help companies accelerate growth so that they can become market leaders. We add value by building management teams through our networks, identifying optimal markets or business models and assisting with manufacturing, sales and distribution. Because we know how to navigate regulatory and capital efficiency considerations, we also add significant value in organizing clinical development strategies in the life sciences. In short, we not only provide companies with capital for growth and expansion, but we help chart and navigate the path to success.

Typically, one person from Scale Venture Partners sits on a board; although the entire Scale Venture Partners team is available to help the CEO and management team maximize market and growth opportunities.

We're seasoned investors who have remained active in the industries where we earned our operational expertise. Often, our best investments are companies we proactively contacted as part of our market activity. The entire Scale Venture Partners team is constantly in the market learning about and evaluating new technologies and meeting with the people who are working to bring them alive. We attend trade shows, speak at conferences, and host events for our portfolio companies; all of which gives us insight into today's evolving markets and many opportunities to meet new entrepreneurs. Whether we are researching a new investment opportunity or increasing our market intelligence on behalf of a portfolio company, we are staying connected to the industries we know and love.

We are approachable people who strive to be responsive, even while we’re active with our existing entrepreneurs. Each ScaleVP investment professional has email contact info on his or her bio page on this site. We tend to prefer email to voicemail, and will want to review an executive summary or short presentation to decide how to proceed.

The valuation process is a bottoms-up modeling process that varies by company, stage and market conditions. Among our criteria in determining valuations, is the potential for an appropriate return relative to the stage and risk of the investment.

Please review the backgrounds of the ScaleVP team on this site, and then send a summary to the person who seems the best match. If you are not sure whom to contact, the upper left hand corner on the "Contact us" page of the Scale Venture Partners website has a feature to submit your business plan. Please do not submit plans by postal mail.