SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Seed–Series B · 12 people tracked
Also known as SAV MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
Investment thesis
SAV backs companies at the intersection of AI and software, targeting infrastructure and enterprise technology themes such as decentralized infrastructure, cloud native, the modern data stack, DevOps, open-core and product-led growth models, and AI applied to cybersecurity. The firm believes AI combined with software will transform essential industries, including life sciences, robotics, and biology, as well as other vertical sectors. SAV positions itself as a hands-on partner that offers early conviction and connects founders with key talent, strategic partners, and accounts to accelerate growth in APAC and worldwide markets.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 12 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 34 of 46 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×29Enterprise Software ×21SaaS ×15Data & Infrastructure ×14Developer Tools ×11Cloud Computing ×9Fintech ×3Biotech ×2
HQs:United States×18United Kingdom×3
Investments · 46 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 22023 · 22020 · 15 dated
Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureNew York, US
Michael Jaconi(Executive Officer, Director)CHRISTOPHER MOORE(Director)Olivier Pomel(Founder & CEO)inAlexis Le-Quoc(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Amit Agarwal(Executive Officer)Dev Ittycheria(Director)
Dropbox is a cloud storage and file synchronization platform that helps teams organize files, reduce busywork, and collaborate efficiently.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Drew Houston(Founder/CEO)inArash Ferdowsi(Founder)inAshraf Alkarmi(Co-CEO)
AgentQL provides a suite of developer tools—including a query language, parser, Python/JavaScript SDKs, a REST API, and a browser debugger extension—for connecting LLMs and AI agents to web pages to extract structured data and automate interactions.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Carpesa, Valencia
Albert Morro Vall(Director)James Alcorn(Director)Francisco de Asis Aranda Montes(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Vila Suero(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Paco Nathan(Director)
BoardHadley Harris(Director)
Lio builds an AI procurement workforce for enterprises, deploying specialized agents to manage purchase requests, vendor research, negotiations, approvals, and delivery tracking.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
ComplyAdvantage provides a SaaS-based platform for managing financial crime risk and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, serving financial services firms with customer screening, transaction monitoring, and intelligence tools powered by AI.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSLondon, GB
Cortex provides a platform for SRE teams to enforce production readiness standards, prevent incidents through automated monitoring and ownership tracking, and resolve issues faster during outages.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ganesh Datta(Founder)inAnish Dhar(Founder)inNikhil Unni(Founder)in
Cresta provides a unified platform combining human and AI agents to automate and augment customer service interactions for enterprise contact centers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechPalo Alto, US
Sebastian Thrun(Co-founder)Tim Shi(Co-founder)inZayd Enam(Co-founder)Ping Wu(CEO)in
BoardRob Theis(Director)Douglas Leone(Director)
d-Matrix develops AI compute hardware and platforms optimized for generative AI inference, designed to be faster, more energy-efficient, and more accessible than existing solutions.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductors
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ion Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Matei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)David Conte(Executive Officer)Tram Phi(Executive Officer)
BoardPeter Sonsini(Director)
Fiddler provides an AI control plane that offers monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Krishna Gade(Founder & CEO)in
Fluxion builds an inference engine ("Fluxion Edge") that runs multi-model AI agent stacks — LLMs, embedding, and guardrail models — locally on existing enterprise edge hardware across chip families (Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple Silicon), reaching the cloud only when needed.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software
Great Expectations provides a data quality and governance platform that enables teams to define, test, and monitor data expectations across their data systems with automation and collaborative tools.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Higgsfield is a platform for creating and generating visual content, including images, videos, and cinematic scenes using AI models.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentLos Gatos, US
Alex Mashrabov(Founder & CEO)inAleksandr Mashrabov(Executive Officer, Director)Yerzat Dulat(Executive Officer, Director)
Imperva provides cybersecurity solutions to protect customers from cyberattacks across applications, data, and identities during digital transformation.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
Kernal Bio is a synthetic biology company developing selective mRNA drugs to treat serious illnesses, with a focus on cancer therapeutics and improving patient outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesBoston, US
Yusuf Erkul(Founder)inJeff Ozdemir(Founder)inBurak Yilmaz(Founder)inBurak YILMAZ(Founder)inCatherine Moroski(Executive Officer, Director)Oguzhan Yilmas(Director)
Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sam Bhagwat(Founder)inAbhi Aiyer(Founder)inShane Thomas(Founder)in
Metadata builds a Marketing OS (operating system) for B2B marketers to automate manual and repetitive marketing tasks.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Yan Manevich(Executive Officer, Director)Gil Allouche(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardBobby Lent(Director)
Modular builds infrastructure for AI model inference and deployment, enabling developers to run AI models across different hardware and cloud environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Chris Lattner(Co-Founder & CEO)inTim Davis(Co-Founder & President)inChristopher Brown(Executive Officer, Director)Gregory Alexander Treece(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRob Schmults(Director)Craig Cummings(Director)
Nylas provides unified communication data infrastructure that integrates email, calendar, contacts, and meetings across fragmented providers into structured, AI-ready data for SaaS applications and automated workflows.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Christine Spang(Co-Founder)Jeff Koets(CEO)
Orama builds search and AI infrastructure, offering OramaJS (an open-source search library), Orama Cloud Pro (managed search with AI answers at a flat monthly price), and Orama Zetta (an enterprise platform deployed in a customer's own cloud, on-premises, or dedicated infrastructure).
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Portside provides a software platform for business and general aviation, serving flight departments, charter operators and FBOs across 30+ countries.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & HospitalityFoster City, US
JOHN CURTIUS(Director)ALEK STRYGIN(Executive Officer, Director)ALEK VERNITSKY(Executive Officer, Director)
Solve Intelligence provides AI-powered software for patent drafting, prosecution, and claim analysis for legal professionals and corporate IP departments.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechLondon, GB
Chris Parsonson(Founder/CEO)inSanj Ahilan(Founder)inAngus Parsonson(Founder)in
Speedscale provides API testing and development tools that help organizations test and debug applications more efficiently.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAtlanta, US
Ken Ahrens(Founder)inMatthew LeRay(Founder)in
Standard Metrics provides portfolio management and analysis software for investors, enabling automated data collection, centralized storage, and AI-powered insights across venture-backed companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
John Melas-Kyriazi(Founder)in
Subtle Medical develops deep learning software for medical imaging that enables faster and safer image acquisition on existing scanners for healthcare providers and imaging centers.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices
Greg Zaharchuk(Co-founder, MD, Ph.D., Neuroradiologist and Professor at Stanford)inEnhao Gong(Co-founder, Ph.D., Deep Learning Scientist)in
Superlinked builds SIE, an open-source inference engine that runs specialized AI models on shared GPUs, enabling organizations to reduce API costs and improve control over their AI infrastructure for search and document processing workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
DanielBen
Throxy provides outbound sales services as an alternative to managing multiple sales tools, hiring SDRs, or running outbound campaigns in-house.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechLondon, GB
Bergen Merey(Founder)inArnau Ayerbe Garcia(Founder)inPablo Jimenez de Parga Ramos(Founder)in
TileDB builds a database platform for organizing, cataloging, and analyzing large-scale data across organizations.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCambridge, US
Abhishek Sharma(Director)Samuel Madden(Director)Stavros Papadopoulos(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMichael Goguen(Director)
Viso.ai offers a computer vision platform with two products: Visonow, a tool to build vision agents from a text prompt and video, and Visosuite, an enterprise operating system to connect cameras across sites and run governed, agentic vision workflows at scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesDatabricks · wsj.com · Jul 17, 2026
Modular · tekedia.com · Jul 15, 2026
Cortex · pulse2.com · Jul 12, 2026
Mastra · tech-insider.org · Jul 6, 2026
HIggsfield · masternodeai.com · Jul 2, 2026
Dropbox · simplywall.st · Jun 25, 2026
Kernal Biologics · biospace.com · Apr 30, 2026
VAST Data · thenextweb.com · Apr 22, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) invest at?
- SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What sectors does SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) focus on?
- SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cloud Computing, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Robotics, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) located?
- SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Does SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) lead rounds?
- SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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