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Scribe

Workflow AI that turns any process into a step-by-step guide automatically.
SaaS 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2019
Current Valuation
$1.3B
as of 2025-Q4
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Scribe going public?
No. Scribe is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Scribe's valuation in 2026?
Scribe is valued at $1.3B as of 2025-Q4, set by its Series C ($75M, Nov 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Scribe filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Scribe.
Who are Scribe's investors?
Scribe's investors include StepStone Group, Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Morado Ventures, New York Life Ventures.
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.
Scribe (legal name Colony Labs) is a San Francisco-based workflow AI company founded in 2019 by Jennifer Smith and Aaron Podolny. Its software automatically captures any computer process and converts it into a step-by-step guide, used by enterprise teams to scale training and SOPs. Became a unicorn in November 2025 on a $75M all-equity Series C led by StepStone Group at a $1.3B valuation.

Company Profile

CEO
Jennifer Smith
Founded
2019
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~200
Last Round
Series C — $75M (Nov 2025) · Lead: StepStone Group
IPO Status
private

On the IPO Calendar

Recent debut · SCTX · Nasdaq
Expected
07/24/2026
Offer
$15
Size
$129M
IPO calendar → · preview SCTX → · Run DD →
Exchange calendar terms from licensed market-data feeds. Expected dates marked est. are news-derived, not exchange-confirmed. Educational only, not a listing prediction.

Fundraising Status

Series C · $75M · 9 mo ago
private

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series C$75MNov 2025StepStone Group

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
0
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
13
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Scribe" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
31
via ashby
Product-build share
35%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 35% builders vs 65% go-to-market/G&A — scaling both sides.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month31Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionSales & GTM16Engineering10Ops & People2Other2Product1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Senior Software Engineer, AdoptSenior Backend EngineerStaff Backend Engineer, CoreSenior Full-Stack Engineer, CoreSenior Full-Stack Engineer, Enterprise Scale (EST)Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Counted from Scribe'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

Jennifer SmithAaron Podolny

Investors

StepStone Group · Amplify Partners · Redpoint Ventures · Tiger Global · Morado Ventures · New York Life Ventures

Products

  • Scribe (step-by-step guide generator)
  • Scribe Pages
  • Enterprise Workflow AI

Competitors

Loom · Guidde · Tango · Notion AI
AISaaSUnicornWorkflow Automation
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.