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 174 job openings. It is currently valued at $29 billion as a private company. The company was founded in 2016.
Jobs
Open jobs
174
TrueUp
Rank
#245
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
56
(32%)
2.
Business Operations & Program Management
28
(16%)
3.
Artificial Intelligence
19
(11%)
4.
Product Management
14
(8%)
5.
Finance
10
(6%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
128
(74%)
2.
🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area
98
(56%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
75
(43%)
4.
🇺🇸 Washington D.C.
31
(18%)
5.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
26
(15%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
LLM
73
(42%)
2.
Python
66
(38%)
3.
AWS
50
(29%)
4.
Google Cloud
39
(22%)
5.
Kubernetes
39
(22%)
Financials
Valuation
$29.0billion
Tech Unicorn
Last round - Jun 2025
Latest secondary valuation
$14.5billion
50% from last round
Estimate as of Jun 16, 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
Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators
Alexandr Wang
2026
Silicon Valley Defense Group NatSec 100
2025
CNBC Disruptor 50
2025
Redpoint InfraRed 100
Late Stage
2025
TIME100 Most Influential Companies
2025
Career-Launching Companies (by Aakash Gupta)
2025
More rankings Layoffs
Sep 2025 · 10 months ago
12 impacted
May 2024 · 2 years ago
Jan 2023 · 3 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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