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scale-up

scale-up

4.0
A company that has grown quickly and now expands staff and sales
  • noun
  • /ˈskeɪl ʌp/
  • Jargon
translation icon : empresa en expansión
  • We will consult on the detail to make sure we get it right and to ensure that the UK continues to be the best place in the world to start and scale up a tech business.

Examples

  • Investors are excited about the scale-up of the company, as it has already begun expanding into new markets.

  • We have this of course in mind and already working on the scale up activities to at least produce hundreds of millions of doses.

  • It's important for scale up that every item is essential and therefore should be done all over the world.

  • OK, achieving the transportation requires also the scale up of a number of the supply side options.

  • Again, biotech is a separate world and they built a system there by which they can manage the scale up with their current financial model.

  • Brian, I want to start with the role of ACEO and the journey from start up to scale up to public company.

  • Well, we talked about the scale up issue And so do you have faith that we will get that fast enough and what's what follows that?

  • But one of the approaches that SEPI is taking in terms of funding is to accelerate that scale up of manufacturing.

  • The tech startup successfully became a scale-up, dramatically increasing its workforce and revenue within a year.

  • Their innovative approach allowed for the rapid scale-up of operations, transforming the small startup into a major player.

How Mature

corporation
∞ 3.7
firm
28 1.0
scale-up
  • Jargon
4.0
startup
169 3.6

Surface Forms

scale-up singular
scale-ups plural

Morphology

scale-up = scale up (semi-transparent) = up + scale

The noun is based on the phrasal verb 'scale up', but the specialized business sense of a rapidly growing company is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Scale-up joins scale, meaning to make something bigger or to 'climb', and up, meaning 'higher'. So a scale-up is a company that has grown past the startup stage and is now expanding fast.