The leap from a budding venture to a scalable enterprise is fraught with challenges. This is where Innovate UK’s Scaleup Programme steps in, providing a robust platform for high-growth companies to accelerate their journey.
Designed for the highest potential innovative businesses, it helps overcome the common barriers to scaling, such as access to finance, finding suitable talent, and entering international markets. By offering bespoke, one-to-one coaching from highly knowledgeable scaleup directors, the programme ensures that innovative companies can grow rapidly and sustainably.
By fostering the growth of such innovative businesses, the Scaleup Programme contributes to economic development, job creation, and increased competitiveness on a global scale.
How does it work?
Innovate UK Business Growth’s highly regarded Scaleup Programme provides one-to-one, bespoke and funded support centred around innovative scaleups’ specific needs. It is available to those scaleup companies achieving, or with the potential for, 50% compound annual growth rates (CAGR) and over.
Participants are assigned a Scaleup Director who works with them as their designated single point of contact, to identify key scale up challenges and enablers that the collective resources, skills and connectivity of a ‘Scaleup Board’ can address. The Scaleup Directors on this Board provide a matrix of skills and connectivity across domains such as finance, M&A, international markets, IP, supply chains, scale up leadership and talent management.
A high level Strategic Advisory Board in turn provides another layer of connectivity and access to resources.
One Scaleup Programme client, Bernadette Griffths, Co-Founder of Metis Automation fed back that “As a result of the Scaleup Programme we are now in such a strong position to go and attract the funding that will allow us to hire many more staff in the coming years and to grow our company exponentially. We are incredibly grateful for the support we have received.”
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