LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Thames Valley Berkshire

Total number of scaleups

No. by employee growth

No. by turnover growth

No. by employee and turnover growth

Total employees

Total turnover

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Employee Growth

Ocean Partners
Ocean Partners operates an ore concentrate trading company, which connects miners with processors by using risk analysis in order to identify the optimal markets for their clients goods.

2e2
2e2 provides managed services including outsourcing, archiving and IT support services to large public and private organisations.

Ridgeway
Ridgeway operates a car dealership, selling both new and used cars.

DX
DX provides next day delivery services of a wide range of goods across a number of industries.

Eden
Edens sells a range of new and used cars.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Daly International
Daly International provides a range of services relating to infrastructure development and management, including town planning, smart meter installation, and land use analysis.

Comfort Care Services
Comfort Care Services provides supported housing and care for adults with with a number of conditions or needs, such as learning disabilities, chronic mental illness or substance addiction.

Sunpower Electronics
Sunpower Electronicsmanufactures power supply products.

Nature’s Finest
Nature’s Finest has developed a range of fruit salads in juice.

N2O
N2O provides experiential marketing services to clients, a form of marketing which focusses on using activities and events to engage consumers directly in the client’s product and brand.

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

ScaleUp Berkshire works with scaleups across all sectors to connect them with specialist support at a local, regional and national level. Action includes signposting business to specialist support from peer-to-peer networking, and mentoring to accessing new markets, creating growth and access to finance. Programmes are delivered in partnership with bodies including Innovate UK, Tech Nation, DIT, Be the Business, Vistage and ELITE.
A range of tools and resources supports scaleups to develop and drive business strategy, establish links with funding partners and with academia giving them access to new talent and skill. This is underpinned by one-to-one peer to facilitate the sharing of experiences and new ideas and to build mutually beneficial, long-term relationships.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are Markets, Talent and Finance. They are looking for support through Innovate UK, Public sector funding for innovation/R&D, LEPs/Growth Hubs and Visas.

Top barriers to growth

  1. Markets
  2. Talent
  3. Finance

want TO SEE more of:

  • Innovate UK
  • Public sector funding for innovation/R&D
  • LEPs/Growth Hubs
  • Visas

Building on work already started under ScaleUp Berkshire, the LEP will aim to increase access to one-to-one account management support for scaling businesses. This will include signposting to resources, assets and specialist scale-up experts and will create a better-connected scale-up ecosystem and so help to generate further growth. The LEP is developing a new Growth Hub website which will offer an enhanced range of online resources along with innovative diagnostic and self-service tools. It is also looking at new ways to increase peer-to-peer networking.