Silicon Valley Comes to the UK reveals the 60 European companies with £100m revenue potential
Appear Here and Love Home Swap among businesses selected to join Sherry Coutu-backed ‘Scale Up Club' 2014
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has today announced the 60 fast-growth European businesses chosen to join its ‘Scale Up Club’ 2014; a group of companies identified as having the potential to reach £100m turnover within the next three to five years.
Formerly known as the SVCUK 100 Club, the initiative seeks to support “promising” companies to “scale up effectively” by offering a year-round programme of mentoring sessions, networking events and workshops.
Organised by leading angel investor Sherry Coutu CBE, this year’s crop of participants includes several Startups 100-listed businesses such as Love Home Swap, Hassle and Digital Shadows, alongside Young Gun-founded companies such as Appear Here and SwiftKey.
Events for the Club will start today with a CEO Summit at the London Stock Exchange which will see leading firms, including Facebook and Google, offer support to entrepreneurs to address “current barriers to scale”.
The news comes on the back of Monday’s Scale Up Report which analysed what could happen if the “UK managed to close the scale-up gap”.
The businesses invited to join the Scale Up Club 2014 are:
- Amplience
- Appear Here
- AppsBuilder
- Benefex
- Beyondtheschoolrun
- Blippar
- Blueliv
- Bossa Studios
- Cambridge Cognition
- Cambridge Intelligence
- Cause4
- CertiVox
- CityFibre
- Clear Returns
- Code Club
- Concirrus
- Conversocial
- Digital Shadows
- Eblink
- eLife
- Genius Food
- Glow
- Hassle
- HealthUnlocked
- InSkin Media
- Jolla
- Love Home Swap
- LoveSpace
- LovethEsign
- Mars Space
- minube.com
- Moneydashboard
- MSquared Lasers
- Musement
- MVF
- MyShowcase
- Neverbland
- nucleobase
- Object Matrix
- Osper
- PathXL
- Payment Sense
- Postcode Anywhere
- Purple Wifi
- Real Eyes
- Secretesales
- Server Density
- Smart Traffic
- Somo
- Spark Energy
- StreetHub
- SwiftKey
- Taragenyx
- Technology Will Save Us
- The Test People
- Thread
- Translate Plus
- TVTY
- Undo
- Versarien
SVC2UK founder, Couto, said: “There has never been a better time to support the scale up of UK companies. SVC2UK provides a unique blend of mentoring, inspiration and high-quality networking to help CEOs scale up fast.
“We are grateful to the London Stock Exchange for hosting our scale up event and providing the environment to foster ambitious goals. We are excited about the impact this summit will have on the companies involved and on the UK economy as a whole.”