The platform

The operating
system for serious
scaleups.

AI tools that do the work investors actually ask about. Live benchmarks against your real cohort. Curated peers, advisors and investors surfaced when they matter. Not a directory. Not a feed.

What it is

Three layers. Built to compound.

AI tools do the work no founder has time for. Live benchmarks show where you actually stand. Curated network surfaces the right peers, advisors and investors at the right time. Each layer makes the others sharper.

Layer 01 · AI tools

Six tools. Built for fundraises, not as toys.

The work that used to take a weekend, a deck consultant or a strategy day. Done in minutes. Defensible enough to land in front of an investor.

01

Co-pilot

One diagnosis of the gap that matters most this week, plus three things to do about it. Built from your benchmarks and anonymised peer cases at your stage. Refreshed every Monday.

02

Pitch Deck Reviewer

Slide-by-slide AI critique against the questions investors actually ask. Story arc, gaps, the single most impactful change to make next. Scored against decks that closed at Series A+.

03

Market Sizing

Layered TAM, SAM and SOM with every figure cited to a named, dateable source. Defensibility-scored before it lands in front of an investor.

04

Competitor Watch

Tracks funding, hires, launches and signals across your category. Tells you what each move means for your positioning, your roadmap and your raise.

05

Data Room

Investor-ready data room generated from your platform profile. One click. Granular per-investor access controls. Full audit trail of what each investor opened.

06

Enterprise Readiness

Scorecard against the operational signals enterprise buyers check before signing. Surfaces gaps in security, compliance, support and SLAs before they kill a deal.

Co-pilot · in the wild

One diagnosis. Three moves. Every Monday.

Not a dashboard. A weekly read on the single gap holding growth back, grounded in what founders at your stage are actually doing about it.

Weekly · Series A · UK SaaS Refreshed Monday, 6 July
This week's read
Your CAC payback is stretching. Two of your peers have fixed it in the last quarter.
18.4months
Bottom 39%
Growth is holding up but the cost to acquire is climbing faster than expansion is offsetting. Your peer cohort's median payback is 12.8 months. Two founders in your cohort brought theirs down from 20+ to under 14 in the last quarter by shifting outbound investment into the two channels where payback was already sub-12.
Three moves this week
1
Segment CAC by channel for the last two quarters. The blended number is hiding a channel that's structurally broken.
2
Cut the bottom-two channels' spend by 50% for 60 days. Move the freed budget into your top-performing channel.
3
Instrument expansion revenue by cohort. If NRR is above 110%, LTV is quietly climbing and payback improves on its own.
Pitch Deck Reviewer · in the wild

The critique you'd pay a consultant for.

Scored against decks that actually closed. Tells you where you're strong, where investors will press, and the single most impactful fix to make next.

Pitch deck reviewer · v3.2 · Seed template
Your deck lands strongest on Traction and Team.
Scored against 47 recent Series A raises. Below is where investors will spend their time.
78
Overall · of 100
Problem & market
82
Traction
91
Business model
74
Competitive moat
58
Team & execution
88
The ask
62
Fix first: Competitive moat reads as "we're faster and better", not as structural defensibility. Add a slide covering integration lock-in, data flywheel or switching cost with real evidence (retention cohorts, expansion pattern). This is the single question every Series A lead will press on.
Layer 02 · Curated network

The right people. Surfaced at the right time.

No directory. No feed to scroll. The platform learns what you're working on and surfaces the founders, advisors, investors and programmes most relevant to it.

Peer matches

Founders at your stage facing the same blockers. Auto-matched on your current priorities, not on what you said in your bio six months ago.

Verified advisors

Vetted operators with founder reviews, topic and stage matching, outcome tracking. The kind of advisor who's actually closed the gap you're facing.

FSMA-certified investors

Active investors who've passed the platform's certification. Matched to your thesis fit, not blasted in a cold-DM batch.

Working sessions

Time-bounded, goal-driven peer groups. Six weeks. One outcome. Five founders. Hosted by someone who's done it.

Programme layer

For accelerators, scaleup programmes and corporate ventures. Applications, judging, cohort spaces, advisor pools, alumni. All in one place.

Auto-connect colleagues

When a teammate from your company joins, you're linked automatically. Your account scales as the team does without any admin work.

Founder matches · in the wild

Three founders. Same stage. Same blockers.

Auto-matched on what you're actually working on this quarter. Not a directory. Not a feed. The matches you'd actually take.

This week's matches
Three founders solving what you're solving.
Auto-matched · Fri 3 Jul
PS
Priya Sharma
CEO, Meridian · Series A · UK B2B SaaS
Same stage GTM blocker Raised Nov
TO
Tom Okonkwo
Co-founder, Beacon Labs · Series A · UK healthtech
Same sector Pipeline coverage Raising Q4
NC
Nadia Chen
CEO, Northwind · Seed extension · UK SaaS
Similar ARR CAC payback Bridge round
Layer 03 · Live data

Know exactly where you stand. Updated by the founders themselves.

Six benchmark categories spanning the metrics investors care about. Sample sizes under five suppressed by design. Your data, your control, granular per-investor access.

Investment

Burn, runway, valuation, total raised

Growth

ARR growth, NRR, CAC payback, gross margin

People

Headcount, sales efficiency, retention, leadership

Customer

NPS, logo retention, time to value, concentration

International

Markets entered, revenue mix, team distribution

Sustainability

Carbon intensity, renewable share, ESG maturity

See the benchmarking layer in detail →
Investor deal flow · in the wild

Two sides of the platform.

FSMA-certified investors see founders matched to their thesis, not blasted in a cold-DM batch. Founders control what each investor sees. Both sides win when the match is right.

Your deal flow this week
4 founders matched to your thesis · Series A UK B2B SaaS
Refreshed Mon
MR
Meridian Robotics
Series A · Raising £4m · Warehouse automation for £10-50m e-commerce brands
£1.2m
ARR
96
HM
Helix Mobility
Seed extension · Raising £2m · Fleet ops OS for UK councils
£820k
ARR
88
BC
Beacon Cloud
Series A · Raising £5m · Observability for regulated financial infra
£2.1m
ARR
82
VH
Verge Health
Series A · Raising £6m · Clinical decision support for NHS trusts
£1.6m
ARR
79
How it works

Four steps. Sharper every week.

The platform learns what you're working on and compounds over time. The more it knows, the better the tools, matches and benchmarks get.

1

Apply to join

90 seconds. Curated, work email only. Cohorts open weekly.

2

Set your priorities

Tell the platform what matters this quarter. Drop in two or three benchmark numbers.

3

Get your weekly diagnosis

Co-pilot surfaces the gap that matters most plus three things to do about it. Refreshed Monday.

4

Compound from there

Use the tools when you need them. Connect with the peers, advisors and investors the platform surfaces.

Join the platform

The best founders don't scale alone.

ScaleUp Global is free to join for founders. Cohort licences and accelerator partnerships are available for programmes, portfolios and membership networks. Talk to us about what fits.

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