Scale-Up Investment – Challenges and Solutions

9am – 11.30am 26 June 2024 techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD

Cracking Britain’s scale-up challenge is now more important than ever. A difficult year in VC markets have mean that once available capital is more restricted. Government efforts to open new investment options from pension funds and institutional investors are the right policies, but it will take time.

Scale-ups have enormous potential, an analysis of the 100 scale-ups within techUK’s own membership shows a potential growth rate of 36.5%. techUK‘s group of tech scale-ups having doubled the number of people they employ over the past five years and could employ as many as 20,000 people in the near future.

Join us for this session run by techUK and VenturePath, as we explore the main challenges and opportunities for scale-ups as they look to raise investment for their business.

We'll hear firsthand from scaleups on their experiences of raising investment and gain practical insights from VenturePath, who work with scaleups daily on raising their investment. They'll also be a chance to hear directly from investors, as they outline their priorities and insights when investing in later-stage companies.

VenturePath

VenturePath provides high-growth tech scaleups with extensive growth support and intensive investor readiness and VC dealmaking at Series A-B. Their experience across £1bn of transactions, and a tried-and-tested process takes the guesswork out of VC fundraising, allowing founders to focus on what really matters; scaling their business.