Private company

Scale AI

Logo: Scale AI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

American data annotation company

Scale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California.2 It was founded by Lucy Guo.1 Its chief executive is Alexandr Wang.1 It employed 900 people in 2025.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2016Founded1
  • HeadquartersSan Francisco1
  • Websitewww.scale.com
  • Legal formCorporation3
  • LEI2549009WDXIYQKT0WP713
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressc/o The Corporation Trust Company, 19801 Wilmington, United States3
  • Registered withDivision of Corporations, Department of State, 60325763

Scale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California.2

Corporate structure

Scale AI sits at the top of its group. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Scale AI San Francisco, California, United States
    • Outlier Subsidiary · San Francisco, United States
    • Remotasks Subsidiary · San Francisco, United States

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Lucy Guo in 2016.1

Leadership

Who has led Scale AI, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 20259001

Timeline

  1. 2016Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$124.5M 2020–2026
Figures by year
YearFederal contractsTotal
2026$5.8M$5.8M
2025$8.2M$8.2M
2024$27.3M$27.3M
2023$22.6M$22.6M
2022$22.5M$22.5M
2021$21.6M$21.6M
2020$16.5M$16.5M

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov5, by calendar year, 2020–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest contracts

  1. Sep 29, 2020$105.6M from Department of the Army: The contractor shall perform research, development, design, configuration, implementation, and testing of machine learning algorithm in acco6 To SCALE AI, INC. Award W911QX20C0051
  2. Feb 27, 2026$5.1M from Department of the Air Force: Agentic artificial intelligence for the e-4c/survivable airborne operations center (saoc) program7 To SCALE AI, INC. Award FA875126C0001
  3. Aug 26, 2025$2.9M from Department of the Army: Artificial intelligence support for basic and applied research of the army research laboratory8 To SCALE AI, INC. Award W911QX25FA054
  4. Sep 24, 2025$2.5M from Defense Logistics Agency: Scale ai to for piee transition use case development short term project (stp) under idiq sp4701-24-d-0004 under hackathon - emergent iv baa09 To SCALE AI, INC. Award SP470125F0273
  5. Sep 27, 2024$2.5M from Defense Logistics Agency: Base year task order awarded to scale ai under their indefinite delivery indefinite quantity idiq for emergent ivbaa0001-22 hackathon amendm10 To SCALE AI, INC. Award SP470124F0355