Upscale
3 Finsbury Ave, London, Greater London, EC2M 2PA, United Kingdom
Overview
Upscale helps the UK’s most promising tech companies to accelerate their growth and unlock the key to scaling successfully. Based on the values of honesty, intimacy and trust, this established, curated programme is designed to reflect companies’ scaling journeys, exploring fundamental growth challenges, such as hiring, maintaining company culture and international expansion. Companies on the Upscale programme will benefit from open conversations, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, meetups and workshops, delivered by expert scale coaches and seasoned entrepreneurs who have been through it all. It’s free to join, and they don’t take an equity stake in your business either.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Tech1M
Participated · Seed · Jul 2024
Tech1M is a London-based recruitment intelligence platform that leverages AI and data analytics to simplify global talent acquisition. Its human-augmentation "co-pilot" integrates recruitment functions including job boards, onboarding, talent networks, and recruiters into a single system. Founded by Tommie Edwards and Damilola Ogunmoye, Tech1M aims to reduce hiring costs, improve hire quality, and accelerate talent acquisition. In July 2024 the company raised $750K in a pre-seed round led by SFC Capital and Techstars, with participation from multiple corporate and venture backers. Tech1M says it will use the funding to continue growing its platform.
- Vested Finance
Participated · Series A · Apr 2022
Vested Finance operates an online platform that enables Indian retail investors to access US equities and ETFs. The product includes instant account opening, curated “Vests” portfolios, localized tax-filing reports and educational content on US markets. Led by co-founder and CEO Viram Shah, the platform is designed to simplify cross-border investing for Indian customers. The company processed more than $250 million in transactions in 2021 and tripled deposits on the platform that year. Its global team is distributed across India, the USA and Canada. Vested plans to use the Series A proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Vested Finance provides an online platform that allows Indian investors to invest in U.S. stocks and ETFs in minutes, or select from curated portfolios called “Vests.” The platform partners with more than 25 brokers, fintech, and wealth firms in India, including Axis Securities, Kuvera, Angel Broking and 5Paisa, and is powered by DriveWealth’s digital trading technology. Led by CEO and co-founder Viram Shah, the company processed more than $100 million in trades in 2020. Vested has offices in Silicon Valley and Mumbai and is a graduate of the 2020 Techstars & Western Union accelerator. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and hire talent across the U.S. and India. Vested Finance operates an easy-to-use online investment platform that gives Indian investors access to the U.S. stock market. The product charges zero commissions and assists users with remittances and tax tracking to simplify cross-border investing. The platform was conceptualized with the objective of sustainable wealth creation and to help Indian investors diversify their portfolios globally. Vested has offices in both the USA and India, and India is the first market it launched in. The company was founded by Viram Shah, Darwin Arifin and Eric Huynh; the founders bring experience from J.P. Morgan and Intel. Venture Catalysts has invested in Vested and provided mentorship, resources and connections to support its product and team growth.
Team
No current team members are available.