Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has unveiled its annual checklist of the 50 extremely bold, high-growth expertise companies in the UK becoming a member of the 2022 ‘Scale Up Club’.
The Scale Up Club celebrates some of the UK’s fastest growing tech corporations annually, offering distinctive alternatives to acquire invaluable perception and mentoring from some of the world’s most high-profile enterprise leaders and entrepreneurs.
Fifty corporations have been chosen this yr from throughout the UK, together with PureLiFi, offering connectivity by means of mild; RideTandem who flip native transport suppliers into good shuttles for work; and Oxford Heartbeat, a digital well being platform offering clinicians with cutting-edge expertise to make life-saving selections.
This yr’s cohort can also be the most various to date, with 46% of the corporations led or based by girls, and 32% of the founders coming from a various background. 42% of this yr’s cohort are corporations from exterior the capital, with corporations throughout Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham and extra on this yr’s checklist. The 2022 Scale Up Club additionally spans some of the UK’s most modern sectors, together with: FinTech 20%, Healthcare 14%, ClimateTech 6%, Cyber Security 4%, Transportation 4% and EdTech 6%.
Launched in 2006 by Sherry Coutu CBE, Reid Hoffman and Ellen Levy, SVC2UK, now run out of London & Partners, is in its seventeenth yr. Since its inception, SVC2UK has supported 880 Scale Up Club CEOs and founders, together with London-based unicorn corporations Wise and SkyScanner. Other notable alumni embody the likes of Elvie, Trouva and The Drum.
Members of the Scale Up Club annually are invited to attend the flagship CEO Summit throughout the annual SVC2UK Summit to entry data and mentoring from high innovators, traders and enterprise leaders in the UK and US tech ecosystems.
Mentors lined up for the 2022 CEO Summit embody Pete Flint OBE (General Partner, NFX), Rajesh Gupta (CFO, OakNorth), and Avid Larizadeh-Duggan (Senior Managing Director, Teachers’ Venture Growth). A collection of roundtable discussions are delivered all through the CEO Summit, mentoring Scale Up Club members to attain their progress potential.
The SVC2UK Summit brings collectively main minds from the US and UK to focus on worldwide scaling and collaboration, the game-changing concepts of the future and the function expertise can play in fixing some of the best challenges of our time.
This yr’s occasion collection will see high headline audio system and thought leaders from throughout the UK and US, together with Michael Acton Smith OBE, Co-Founder of Calm; Rishi Khosla, CEO of Oak North; Anne Boden, CEO of Starling Bank; Sherry Coutu, Serial Entrepreneur and Angel investor and Jeff Kolovson, Co-founder and COO of Faire.
Janet Coyle, Managing Director Business Growth, London & Partners mentioned: “The UK is a number one international hub to develop and scale a enterprise and this yr’s Scale Up Club corporations display the variety and vibrancy of the UK’s scale-up ecosystem. Britain is producing sport altering corporations throughout a spread of high-growth sectors and it’s unbelievable to see illustration of companies from many areas of the nation on this yr’s cohort.
“It’s also refreshing to see the increasing number of companies with female founders and from diverse backgrounds. As two of the world’s leading hubs for technology and entrepreneurship, the UK and the Bay Area have an important role to play in promoting a fairer and more inclusive global business ecosystem. We look forward to welcoming entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers to this year’s SVC2UK Summit as we see lots of opportunities for the two ecosystems to collaborate and share ideas.”
The full checklist of 2022 Scale Up Club corporations are:
55/Redefined
ACUA Ocean
Afrocenchix
BankiFi Technology Limited
Béa Fertility
Captur
Classlist
Collctiv
CrowdProperty
Cyacomb
CyberQ Group
DigiDoe
DirectID
enferm
Feast It
FranScape
GEEIQ
Greyparrot
Inovus Medical
iWarranty Limited
SimplyWears
Kidadl
KogoPAY Group
LOVIS
Movemeback
Muse Finance
MyPocketSkill
MyWay Digital Health
NearSt
Organise
Oxford Heartbeat
Petalite Limited
pirkx
PollenPay
pureLiFi
Recruitment Smart Technologies
RelaxMyDog
RideTandem
Rovco
Shares
Sign of the Times
SPOKE
Syrona Health
The Mothership
TravelLocal
Treasury Spring
Tumelo
Valla
Virtual Internships
Wise
