Deadline: 28-Jun-22
Tech Nation has announced an open call for the Upscale 8.0 Programme to help the UK’s most promising tech companies to accelerate their growth and unlock the key to scaling successfully.
Based on values of honesty, intimacy and trust, and now in its 8th year, this curated programme has been designed to reflect your scaling journey. Companies will explore fundamental growth challenges with peers and benefit from sessions delivered by expert scale coaches who’ve trodden this path before you.
Over 6-months, 30 founders and senior leadership teams will receive over 60 hours of support, delivered by over 20 scale coaches. It’s free, and they don’t take an equity stake in any businesses that join.
What does the Upscale programme involve?
- Coaching: Coaching and mentoring from world-leading scale coaches, helping your teams scale and develop support networks beyond the Upscale programme.
- Content: Founder and c-suite sessions, and online resources designed to tackle fundamental growth barriers such as; culture, talent, international expansion and financing.
- Community: The world has changed, and so have they – with the sessions being run online for the foreseeable future. Learn from and with programme peers and connect to Tech Nation’s prestigious alumni network, including 160 Upscale founders who have been through it all.
- Connections: Get the recognition you deserve as a successful, fast-growth UK tech company, through Tech Nation marketing, press and government, and get access to the tools you need to meet corporates and investors.
Eligibility Criteria
- Upscale 8.0 supports the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies to scale faster, together.
- A company might hit the baseline criteria, but the final selection takes four key criterion into account; value proposition, traction, potential for scale and programme suitability.
- VC backed, having raised Series A round OR Revenue focused and generating £1.5m – £5m
- Headquartered in the UK
- Guidance: Upscale typically works with companies experiencing rapid growth approx 10% month-on-month. With COVID, they understand that some companies may have experienced variances over the last 6 months.
- With that in mind, typical Upscale companies are:
- Looking to significantly increase team size
- Rapidly growing customer base or market share
- Aspiring for substantial national or international growth
For more information, visit https://technation.io/programmes/upscale/