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Scale AI

Data labeling and AI infrastructure powering the world's frontier models
AI 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2016
Current Valuation
$14B
as of 2025-Q2
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IPO Outlookprivate

Is Scale AI going public?
No. Scale AI has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Scale AI's valuation in 2026?
Scale AI is valued at $14B as of 2025-Q2, set by its Series F + Meta investment ($14B, Jun 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Scale AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Scale AI.
Who are Scale AI's investors?
Scale AI's investors include Meta, Accel, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Tiger Global, Coatue.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Scale AI provides high-quality training data for the world's leading AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) and runs Donovan, a defense-AI platform. In June 2025, Meta took a $14.3B stake (~49%) and brought founder Alexandr Wang in to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Company Profile

CEO
Alexandr Wang (transitioned to Meta SVP)
Founded
2016
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~900
Total Raised
$16B
Est. Revenue
$870M (2024)
Growth
~80% YoY
Last Round
Series F + Meta investment — $14B (Jun 2025) · Lead: Meta
IPO Status
no imminent plans

Fundraising Status

Series F + Meta investment · $14B · 1y 2mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $16B

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$12.2
Last round price / share
$19.64
vs last round
-37.9%
Open interest
17
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$19.64Last round$12.20Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+54.0%6-month-24.6%1-year-43.6%All-time-3.6%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series F + Meta investment$14BJun 2025Meta

Vertical Intelligence — Defense / Aerospace

Federal awards
9
prime contracts, last 36 months
Obligated
$120.52M
top: Department of Defense
Largest award
$105.55M
Department of Defense
Latest award
2026-02-27
Largest award: THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN, CONFIGURATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND TESTING OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM IN ACCO (W911QX20C0051)
Name-verified against recipient "SCALE AI, INC." on USASpending.gov as of 2026-08-19. Prime awards only — subcontracts and classified work are not visible in the public registry. Verify on USASpending.gov ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
Hiring steady
22% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
210
via greenhouse
Product-build share
65%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 65% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 58 of 210 open roles are engineering.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month210Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering58Other30Product24Research22Sales & GTM12Security12Finance & Strategy9Data & ML9Ops & People8
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
AI Infrastructure Engineer, Model Serving PlatformAI Infrastructure Engineer, Sandbox PlatformAI Infrastructure Engineer, Serving PlatformAI Product Manager (Coding/Multimodal)[Annotations] Operations Program ManagerApplied AI Engineer, Global Public Sector
Counted from Scale AI's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Alexandr WangLucy Guo

Investors

Meta · Accel · Index Ventures · Founders Fund · Tiger Global · Coatue

Products

  • Scale Data Engine
  • Scale GenAI Platform
  • Donovan (defense)
  • Scale Generative AI Platform
  • Outlier (RLHF)

Competitors

Surge AI · Labelbox · Snorkel AI
AIData LabelingDefense AI
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.