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Scoro

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Scoro sells one platform combining projects, billing, and resourcing for agencies and consultancies.

Losing its protection
Assessed 23 July 2026 · Evidence as of 23 July 2026
The structural protection is eroding.
On the recordSince 23 July 2026 · Checkable from Q3 2026 · Every call on the record Checkpoint: Scoro's AI vision and roadmap webinar, plus watch for a funding or exit signal after 65 months without a round
The call

Scoro holds real customer lock-in but shows five years of funding silence and flat headcount while agentic AI rivals and larger suites push into its territory.

Scoro is software that helps small service companies like agencies and consulting firms track their projects, schedules, and billing all in one place. It is hard to switch away from because it knows all the details of how a company runs and losing that would be painful, but bigger companies like Monday.com and Asana can copy those features, and new AI tools from rivals like Rocketlane are getting smarter at doing similar work without needing as many people. The company has not raised money in over five years and has not hired much, which suggests it is stuck rather than winning, and the one thing that could change the story would be proof in the next year that either a larger company wants to buy it or that its own customers are staying loyal and paying more.

Why
01
AI pressure: Rocketlane's Nitro agents and PSOhub's agentic AI. Agentic AI automates the resourcing, billing, and reporting tasks Scoro charges per seat for, weakening its pricing logic. Could AI do the core job? Only partly.
02
Bigger players: Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet. These platforms can bolt on PSA financial modules Scoro built its niche around, given enough time and engineering. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.
03
What protects it. Customers run live project, billing, and resourcing data through Scoro daily; ripping that out mid-operation is costly and slow.
What would change this call
Scoro announces a new funding round or acquisition within 12 months. Would show investors still back the moat despite the 65-month funding drought.
Rocketlane or Kantata publicly names a former Scoro customer as a win. Would show Scoro is losing accounts to AI-native or PE-backed rivals.
Scoro headcount stays flat or shrinks through 2027. Would reinforce a plateau or decline rather than growth.
Key numbers
  • Series B $16.4M raised, none since (2021-03)
  • Headcount flat at ~143 employees (2026-07)
  • Latka est. 2024 ARR ~$20.8M (2024-12)
Named risks
  • No new equity funding since March 2021, over five years, raising going-concern or exit pressure. Severity: high
  • Flat headcount (0% YoY) through July 2026 signals hiring stall and possible plateau. Severity: medium
  • AI-native agentic competitors (Rocketlane Nitro, PSOhub) attacking the same PSA niche by name. Severity: high
  • Per-seat pricing model vulnerable to AI-driven headcount and seat compression at customers. Severity: medium
  • Revenue estimates from third parties disagree by roughly 50 percent, indicating weak financial transparency. Severity: low
Rivals, as read in July 2026
RivalDirectionEvidence
RocketlanecontestingLaunched 'Nitro' AI agents explicitly positioned against Scoro as of April 2026
Kantatalosing toPE-backed by Accel-KKR, stronger at enterprise resource forecasting and Salesforce integration as of June 2026
Productive.iocontestingPositioned as leaner, cheaper agency-native alternative to Scoro as of April 2026
PSOhubcontestingMarkets 'agentic AI' explicitly against Scoro as of July 2026
Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheetgaining onHorizontal platforms could add native PSA financial depth over time, per July 2026 analysis
Questions people ask
Is Scoro profitable in 2026?
No public profitability figures are disclosed. Latka estimated 2024 ARR at ~$20.8M and called Scoro effectively bootstrapped despite VC rounds, while ZoomInfo estimated ~$31.5M revenue as of July 2026; neither source confirms profitability.
Has Scoro raised funding recently?
No. Scoro's last disclosed round was a $16.4M Series B in March 2021, led by Kennet Partners. As of July 2026, one tracker noted it had gone 65 months without a new equity round, a five-year funding drought.
Could AI replace Scoro?
Scoro is embedding AI rather than being replaced outright: it launched an ELI assistant (mid-2025, agentic by April 2026) and an MCP server (GA December 2025) letting ChatGPT or Claude query Scoro data. But per-seat pricing exposes it to AI-driven seat compression.
Who is Scoro's biggest competitor?
Kantata (formerly Mavenlink/Kimble, PE-backed by Accel-KKR) competes at the enterprise end, while Productive.io and Rocketlane target mid-market; Rocketlane launched 'Nitro' AI agents explicitly positioned against Scoro as of April 2026.
Who owns Scoro?
Scoro is privately held and venture-backed, legally registered as Scoro Software OU in Tallinn, Estonia. It has no parent company; investors include Inventure, Livonia Partners, Tera Ventures, Kennet Partners and Columbia Lake Partners across its funding rounds.
What did Scoro acquire in 2026?
In January 2026, Scoro acquired Envoice, an Estonian AI-driven bill and expense management company, for undisclosed terms, integrating automated invoice capture and expense approval into its financial workflow.
Timeline
  • 2026-06-26Launched Scoro Apps app store and developer portal for custom integrations
  • 2026-04-09ELI AI assistant expanded to agentic action-taking (rescheduling, task updates)
  • 2026-01Acquired Envoice, Estonian AI-driven bill and expense management company
  • 2025-12-17Scoro MCP server exits beta, reaches general availability
  • 2025-10Scoro MCP server launched in beta for Claude/ChatGPT integration
  • 2024-12-19Latka estimates 2024 ARR at approximately $20.8M
  • 2021-03-09Closed $16.4M Series B led by Kennet Partners
  • 2018-11Closed Series A of $5.0 to $5.2M led by Livonia Partners and Tera Ventures
  • 2016-08Closed $1.9M Seed round led by Inventure, SmartCap, Alchemist
  • 2013Founded in Tallinn, Estonia by Fred Krieger
Revision history
23 July 2026
First assessed. Losing its protection. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.
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