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
- 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
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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.
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Leadership
Who has led Scale AI, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.
- FounderLucy Guo1
- Chief executive officerAlexandr Wang1
Subsidiaries and ownership
Subsidiaries
From Wikidata.1
Employees over time
- 20259001
Timeline
- 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.
- Federal contracts $124.5M
Figures by year
| Year | Federal contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Links
- Websitewww.scale.com1
- WikipediaScale AI
- WikidataQ112629176
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataScale AI on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaScale AI on Wikipedia
- 3
- 4Wikimedia CommonsScale AI logo by Scale AI, Public domain
- 5USAspending.govUSAspending.gov recipient profile: SCALE AI, INC.
- 6USAspending.govW911QX20C0051: Department of the Army
- 7USAspending.govFA875126C0001: Department of the Air Force
- 8USAspending.govW911QX25FA054: Department of the Army
- 9USAspending.govSP470125F0273: Defense Logistics Agency
- 10USAspending.govSP470124F0355: Defense Logistics Agency