The Innovate UK EDGE Scaleup programme
Product Description:
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.
•12-15 months Intense 121 Support
•Bespoke to individual clients
•Framed in addressing 3 barriers to scaling
•Account Director appointed to plan and manage client journey
•Access to 30 + Scaleup Directors and Specialists
experts in their field
•Access to Scaleup Growth Fund (on application)
•Soft landing to the benefits of joining the Alumni Community on completion
Area of Expertise:
Scale-up
UKRI
Grow your business
Funding
Eligibility:
•Established and Validated Growth Potential (50
100%)
•Validated, repeatable, and scalable business model
•Growing, with a typical minimum turnover of £1m+ pa
•Driven by disruptive innovation
•Ambition to expand in current market(s)
•Additionally, intent to expand in new or international markets
•Commercially sustainable
•Furthermore:
•Programme is national and sector agnostic
Districts:
- Leicester City
- Blaby
- Charnwood
- Oadby and Wigston
- Melton
- Harborough
- Northwest Leicestershire
- Bosworth and Hinckley