Appear Here and Love Home Swap among businesses selected to join Sherry Couto-backed ‘Scale Up Club' 2014

Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has today announced the 60 fast-growth European businesses chosen to join its ‘Scale Up Club’ 2014; a group of companies identified as having the potential to reach £100m turnover within the next three to five years.

Formely known as the SVCUK 100 Club, the initiative seeks to support “promising” companies to “scale up effectively” by offering a year-round programme of mentoring sessions, networking events and workshops.

Organised by leading angel investor Sherry Coutu CBE, this year’s crop of participants includes several Startups 100-listed businesses such as Love Home Swap, Hassle and Digital Shadows, alongside Young Gun-founded companies such as Appear Here and SwiftKey.

Events for the Club will start today with a CEO Summit at the London Stock Exchange which will see leading firms, including Facebook and Google, offer support to entrepreneurs to address “current barriers to scale”.

The news comes on the back of Monday’s Scale Up Report which analysed what could happen if the “UK managed to close the scale-up gap”.

The businesses invited to join the Scale Up Club 2014 are:

Amplience Appear Here AppsBuilder Benefex Beyondtheschoolrun Blippar Blueliv Bossa Studios Cambridge Cognition Cambridge Intelligence Cause4 CertiVox CityFibre Clear Returns Code Club Concirrus Conversocial Digital Shadows Eblink eLife Genius Food Glow Hassle HealthUnlocked InSkin Media Jolla Love Home Swap LoveSpace LovethEsign Mars Space minube.com Moneydashboard MSquared Lasers Musement MVF MyShowcase Neverbland nucleobase Object Matrix Osper PathXL Payment Sense Postcode Anywhere Purple Wifi Real Eyes Secretesales Server Density Smart Traffic Somo Spark Energy StreetHub SwiftKey Taragenyx Technology Will Save Us The Test People Thread Translate Plus TVTY Undo Versarien

SVC2UK founder, Couto, said: “There has never been a better time to support the scale up of UK companies. SVC2UK provides a unique blend of mentoring, inspiration and high-quality networking to help CEOs scale up fast.

“We are grateful to the London Stock Exchange for hosting our scale up event and providing the environment to foster ambitious goals. We are excited about the impact this summit will have on the companies involved and on the UK economy as a whole.”