Overview
Business
AI training data annotation
Founded
10 years ago
June 2016
Valuation
$29 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#186
Company type
Private - Venture-Backed
Tags
Scale is an AI training data annotation company with 184 job openings. It is currently valued at $29 billion as a private company. The company was founded in 2016.
Jobs
Open jobs
184
TrueUp
Rank
#231
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
59
(32%)
2.
Business Operations & Program Management
29
(16%)
3.
Artificial Intelligence
22
(12%)
4.
Product Management
12
(7%)
5.
Finance
9
(5%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
132
(72%)
2.
🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area
101
(55%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
76
(41%)
4.
🇺🇸 Washington D.C.
32
(17%)
5.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
29
(16%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
LLM
80
(43%)
2.
Python
70
(38%)
3.
AWS
54
(29%)
4.
Google Cloud
43
(23%)
5.
Kubernetes
42
(23%)
Financials
Valuation
$29.0billion
Tech Unicorn
Last round - Jun 2025
Latest secondary valuation
$14.6billion
50% from last round
Estimate as of Jul 1, 2026
Data source: Notice.co
Most recent funding
1 year ago ($14.3 billion)
Total funding
$15.9 billion
Actual value 'created' (valuation - total funding)
+$13.1 billion
Lead Investor - Series A
AccelRevenue (2024)
$1.0 billion
Culture
Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
61%
400+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Worse than 58% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
Alexandr Wang
61%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Rankings and awards
Hiive50 #19
Most liquid private companies
2026
Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators #200
Alexandr Wang
2026
Silicon Valley Defense Group NatSec 100 #40
2025
CNBC Disruptor 50 #28
2025
Redpoint InfraRed 100
Late Stage
2025
TIME100 Most Influential Companies
2025
Layoffs
Sep 2025 · 10 months ago
12 impacted
May 2024 · 2 years ago
Jan 2023 · 4 years ago
140 impacted20%
External research
Our Continued Partnership with Scale
Accel · Jun 2024
Next-Level Observability: Chronosphere Delivers Distributed Tracing at Scale
Greylock Partners · Oct 2021
Scale: Rational in the Fullness of Time
Not Boring · Jun 2021
Our Continued Investment in Scale: Accelerating and Democratizing Access to AI
Accel · Aug 2019
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