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About ScaleUp Company

Founded by entrepreneurs. Built for entrepreneurs.

We help ambitious entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.

Purpose

Our Story

The ScaleUp team at work

ScaleUp Company was started by entrepreneurs who had already built and scaled companies of their own, and who kept meeting founders wrestling with problems they had solved years earlier. The lesson was simple: you start a business by yourself, but you scale it together.

Every founder eventually discovers the same thing: the barriers that feel uniquely yours aren't. Almost every scaling company hits the same growth barriers, each one convinced the struggle is theirs alone. So why learn it the hard way? That question is what we've spent years answering: a proven method, coaches with real operating experience, and a community that has already been where you're going. Today that work runs across Europe, one market at a time, led by entrepreneurs who chose to build it in their own country. Our mission is simple: help the next founder get there faster.

Values

What we stand for

1

Lead by example

Lead yourself first. We hold ourselves to the standards we coach.

2

Pursue excellence

Obsessed with better: in our craft, our sessions and our clients' results.

3

Empower growth

Build the structure. Hand over the keys. We're here to make you less dependent on us, not more.

4

Learn loudly, grow boldly

Play hard, learn harder. We share what we learn, wins and scars.

5

Not just theory, real results

Make it real. We measure our success by what actually changes inside your company.

Vision

Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal

By 2032, we aim to support the growth of 1,000 scaling companies at once.

One team, every market

The International Team

The people who build the method, hold the standards, and open the next market. These are the people building the House of Entrepreneurship.

Bart van Nol

[Full bio pending]

Bart van Nol

CEO, ScaleUp Company International

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Diana França

[Full bio pending]

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Diana França

COO, ScaleUp Company International

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[Full bio pending]

Paola Capuani

Client Success Manager, ScaleUp Company International

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Ted Køhlert van Zwieten

[Full bio pending]

Ted Køhlert van Zwieten

Co-Founder, Denmark

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Yigit Calli

[Full bio pending]

Photo pending final approval

Yigit Calli

Co-Founder, Türkiye

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Katya Velikova

[Full bio pending]

Photo pending final approval

Katya Velikova

Co-Founder, Bulgaria

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Full bios pending from Diana (FB-062).

Local experience. International strength.

ScaleUp Company across Europe

We're building the largest network of scaling companies in Europe, one market at a time.

The map isn't finished.

Open a ScaleUp country

Every market starts with one entrepreneur: someone who has built and scaled a company, and now wants a bigger impact than one company can give them. Not by starting over. By putting what they learned to work on other people's ambitions. Want to open ScaleUp Company in your country?

Actively looking in Italy and Spain, and always open to a new market when the right partner arrives.

Part of something bigger

Our international network of ScaleUp Coaches

Order per Diana (27 Jul); roles corrected 3 Aug. Titles for the eight newest coaches await confirmation.
Mirik Castro

Mirik Castro

CEO, Netherlands

Daniel Ruff

Daniel Ruff

Coach, Denmark

Marie Louise Fabrin

Marie Louise Fabrin

Coach, Denmark

Marco Locatelli

Marco Locatelli

ScaleUp Coach

Michor Pleasure

Michor Pleasure

CRO & Coach, Netherlands

Victor van Veelen

Victor van Veelen

Coach, Netherlands

Jeroen Volk

Jeroen Volk

Coach, Netherlands

Martijn Hendrikx

Martijn Hendrikx

Coach, Netherlands

Erik Leene

Erik Leene

Coach, Netherlands

Louise Verschuren

Louise Verschuren

Coach, Netherlands

Kurt van Dijk

Kurt van Dijk

Coach, Netherlands

Diederik Rus

Diederik Rus

Coach, Netherlands

Willem Sodderland

Willem Sodderland

Coach, Netherlands

Eddie van Breukelen

Eddie van Breukelen

Coach, Netherlands

Felipe Munoz

Felipe Munoz

Coach, Netherlands

Jasper Voorhoeve

Jasper Voorhoeve

Coach, Netherlands

Kirsten Goes

Kirsten Goes

Coach, Netherlands

Louis Kinsbergen

Louis Kinsbergen

Coach, Netherlands

Merijn de Jager

Merijn de Jager

Coach, Netherlands

Nikki Wiesman

Nikki Wiesman

Coach, Netherlands

Remco van der Sluis

Remco van der Sluis

Coach, Netherlands

Find your market

Every conversation starts in your own country.

The method is the same everywhere. The person across the table isn't. They've built a company in your market and know what growth costs there. Pick your country and see what ScaleUp looks like on the ground.

Don't see your country? Diana França, COO, talk to the International team.

ProposalCountry routing, built from your 7 August note that the markets launch together. 0 of 5 have no site of their own yet, so those buttons are inert rather than pointed somewhere invented. Confirm the destinations and they all become links.

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