Scale Venture Partners

Overview

Began in 2000 as BA Venture Partners, Bank of America's venture arm, and spun out as an independent firm in 2007. It leads Series A and B rounds in AI and B2B software companies, and about 80% of its investments are at those stages. Fund VIII ($900M, 2022) is its current fund.

Notable portfolio companies

• Bill.com
• Box
• DocuSign
• HubSpot
• RingCentral
• JFrog
• Root Insurance
• WalkMe

Funds

LPs on the record

2 private foundations list on their latest IRS Form 990-PF, and 8 other LPs report holding Scale Venture Partners’s funds.

• Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) Public pension plan · 3 funds
• Laborers District Council & Contractors Pension Fund of Ohio Union pension plan · 3 funds
• N. Atlantic States Carp. Pension Fund Union pension plan · 3 funds

7 more LPs are in the app. Find LPs that back firms like this one in Hottub’s LP Intelligence: ranked by overlap, with what each holds and how to reach it.

Firms whose LPs overlap

The firms sharing the most LPs on record with Scale Venture Partners, relative to how many LPs each has. A peer set like this is what Find LPs ranks LPs from.

• Pioneer Square Investment Advisor, LLC 4 LPs in common
• Accomplice 3 LPs in common
• Valhalla Partners 3 LPs in common
• August Equity LLP 3 LPs in common
• Ovp Management Co., LLC 3 LPs in common
• Foundation Capital 4 LPs in common

Find LPs for Scale Venture Partners and these firms: Hottub ranks the LPs that hold their funds, the ones still adding funds first.

Track record

A score of 45 out of 100 from 3 of the 6 funds public LPs report, 1 of them in the top half of their vintage. Its ranked funds’ median TVPI is 1.04x and median DPI 2.74x. Pooled where reports give cash flows: 2.74x TVPI, 2.74x DPI. That ranks it 80th of 123 managers with a score.

Each fund once, as the latest of 3 LPs’ reports ranks it by TVPI against funds of the same vintage in those reports; 50 is the median fund, and a short record is pulled toward 50. The full record in LP Intelligence, with each fund’s rank and what usually follows a fund like its latest, or every manager’s.

Reported fund performance

As reported by public LPs that invested in these funds, net of fees. “Versus vintage” ranks each fund against every other fund of the same vintage in that LP’s report, mostly private equity and venture funds. Open a fund for its cash flows and full peer ranking.

Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS): TRS Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year 2025: Investment Assets Under Management, Private Equity, as of June 30, 2025. TRS lists each private equity partnership with one amount, its "Assets" at the fiscal year end, in the schedule "Investment Assets Under Management" of its Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (shown here as the market value, in whole dollars as printed). It reports no commitment amount, contributions, distributions, vintage year, multiple or IRR per fund, so committed, paid-in, distributed, total value, IRR, TVPI and DPI are blank; nothing is derived or estimated. All 263 entries under the schedule's "Private Equity" heading are included as TRS classifies them (buyout, growth, venture, co-investment and separately managed vehicles; 53 are "Annex" entries that TRS lists separately beside a fund of the same manager); the Public Equity, Real Assets, Income and Diversifying Strategies groups are not imported. The entries add up to $12,776,014,572, which equals the fair value of private equity partnerships in the notes to the report's financial statements ($12,776,014,570). The schedule's own note says it does not include managers terminated before June 30, 2025 with residual assets in the account. View source

New Mexico State Investment Council: New Mexico State Investment Council Private Equity Performance Updates: Fund Summaries (Active Funds), as of March 31, 2026. Net IRR and net multiple since inception as printed in the fund summaries of the quarterly performance updates that Mercer prepares for the Council (data source given as Invient), published in the Council's public meeting materials. The fund summaries head the two columns "Net" (Multiple, IRR); their total rows equal the "Net Multiple" and "Net IRR" of active commitments in the reports' dashboards. The net multiple is used as TVPI. The fund summaries give only committed capital, exposure (NAV + unfunded), net multiple and IRR for each fund, so contributions, distributions, total value and DPI are blank; contributions and distributions are reported by program and strategy only. Committed capital is reported in $ millions to one decimal and converted to whole dollars. Vintage year is defined by the reports as the year of the fund's first cash flow. 27 of the newest funds are marked N/A or NM (not defined in the reports) and lack an IRR, a multiple or both. The IRR of The Veritas Capital Fund IX, L.P. is printed as "#######" (not readable) and is blank. Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout Fund XI, L.P. is printed with a negative multiple, imported as printed. Two reports are combined: the National Private Equity Program (175 active funds, $11,121.7 million committed; 32 Venture Capital, 93 Buyout, 33 Growth, 17 Special Situations) and the Strategic Venture Capital Program and New Mexico Private Equity Investment Program (Legacy) (83 active funds, $2,346.3 million committed; 76 Fund Investments, 5 Co-Investment Funds, 1 Catalyst Fund, 1 Recovery Fund). The second report covers the Council's New Mexico-focused venture and private equity commitments, including its own co-investment, catalyst and recovery vehicles. Active funds only: liquidated and sold funds are reported in aggregate, not by fund. The Private Debt, Real Estate and Real Assets reports in the same materials are not imported. View source

NYC Police Pension Fund: New York City Police Pension Fund Private Equity Quarterly Report (Public): fund schedule, as of March 31, 2026. From the Private Equity Quarterly Report (Public) in the fund's quarterly investment meeting package, a portfolio report that carries Aksia's legend, published by the New York City Comptroller's Bureau of Asset Management. The report is dated "As Of Mar-2026", taken here as that month's last day. The schedule's return column is headed "Current Quarter IRR"; the footnote to its PME Spread column calls it "the Net IRR", and the portfolio figure in that column is 11.0%. TVPI is the printed "Multiple" (it equals (total distributions + market value) / total contributions); total value = total distributions + market value and DPI = total distributions / total contributions are computed. Contributed is the report's "Total Contributions" and vintage its "Vintage". IRR is blank where the report prints n.m. (55 investments; the report says IRR is not meaningful for investments held less than 24 months) or leaves the cell empty (3 investments: Celtic Pharmaceutical Holdings; Markstone Capital Partners; Medica III); the multiple is blank where the report prints n.m. (18 investments with nothing contributed) and, here, for 1 investment whose contributions are negative as printed (Warburg Pincus Financial Sector III), since a multiple of negative contributions is not a return multiple; 2 rows carry a negative market value as printed. Included are 213 active investments and 165 investments the schedule marks "Liquidated" (none has a remaining market value): funds, co-investment vehicles and emerging manager vehicles (the schedule gives no strategy per row). The schedule also has 4 rows (NYCP - 2012 Emerging Manager Program; NYCP - 2015 Emerging Manager Program; NYCP - 2019 Emerging Manager Program; NYCP - Evergreen Emerging Manager Program) for program vehicles whose funds it lists one by one: the other 378 rows add up to the printed Total Portfolio ($13,668,939,880 committed, $5,838,773,651 market value), and the 213 of them not marked liquidated match the report's count of 213 active investments, so those program rows are left out rather than counted twice. Real estate, infrastructure and credit are reported separately and are not imported. View source