Scale-Up Venture Capital (Scale-Up Unicorn Fund)

Scale-Up Venture Capital, operating as the Scale-Up Unicorn Fund, is a San Francisco Bay Area growth-equity firm founded in 2015 that invests exclusively in US technology unicorns — specifically companies valued between $2 billion and $5 billion with demonstrated hyper-growth characteristics. The firm was co-founded by Managing Partners Alex Lazovsky and Anton Baranchuk, who also co-founded and lead West Coast Equity Partners (WCEP), a Silicon Valley private equity firm that shares an investment team with Scale-Up. Additional Managing Partners include Rick, co-founder of Catapult Capital and former COO of Grindr, and Steve, CEO and founder of Health Gorilla. Typical deal sizes run from $10 million to $50 million per position. Scale-Up's strategy evolved from an original mid-stage technology focus into a dedicated unicorn growth approach as its earlier portfolio companies matured. Today the fund targets late-stage minority positions in hyper-growth companies transforming their markets. Across 66 disclosed investments, the combined Scale-Up and WCEP partner track record includes DataRobot, Coursera (NYSE: COUR), Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), Klarna, People.ai, SpaceX, Trax Technologies, OpenWeb, Verbit.ai, Upgrade, Outschool, PsiQuantum, Cybereason, eToro, SiSense, and Silk.us. Additional portfolio names include Siklu, Spot.IM, StartApp, Justos, Intera, and Woba. The firm's core conviction is that the $2 billion to $5 billion valuation band represents an underserved moment in a company's lifecycle — too large for most growth equity funds but not yet in the crosshairs of the largest late-stage vehicles. Scale-Up treats this gap as a repeatable opportunity to take meaningful positions in category leaders before their most significant value creation events.