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Scale-Up Collective
Experts in Growth
We support the talent agenda through board builds and strategic hiring for early stage tech businesses, whether at seed or later stage series funding.
The Scale-up Collective is an expert team from within Odgers Berndtson’s Technology and IT Services Practice who understand the steps-to-scale, and the strategic leadership talent required to achieve traction and velocity.
We’ve developed a bespoke assessment methodology to identify and assess the essential skills and leadership DNA to successfully achieve velocity in a scale-up business.
Partnering with the investor community and founders alike, our clients rely on our global thinking, market access and candid counsel to secure world class talent.
"The Scale-up Collective is a hit team. Our early stage tech clients face particular challenges in their path to achieve scale, and our collective expertise predicts and responds to these by partnering with founders and investors as they plot the course to profitability."
- Mike Drew, Partner & Global Practice Leader
Scale-up Collective expertise:
- Private Equity, Board Search, International Consulting, Growth Equity, Executive Search
- Hiring for the portfolios of VC and Private Equity clients across the technology sector from board builds to high impact executive hires
- Bespoke assessment and development tool designed to support first-time founders as they evolve as business leaders
- Talent identification, skills gap analysis, and C-suite benchmarking
- Incorporating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into growth DNA
- Industry introductions, connections and hosted events relevant to scale-up tech companies
See our partnership with NVIDIA here: NVDIA's Inception Connect Programme
In this interview, Mike Drew, a member of the Scale-up Collective, speaks with Erin Platts, Head of EMEA & UK President, Silicon Valley Bank, on how they support early stage businesses and the mindset differences between US and European tech companies.
Watch part two of this interview here.
