About ScaleUp Company
Founded by entrepreneurs. Built for entrepreneurs.
We help ambitious entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.
Purpose
Our Story

ScaleUp Company was started by entrepreneurs who had already built and scaled companies of their own, and who kept meeting founders wrestling with problems they had solved years earlier. The lesson was simple: you start a business by yourself, but you scale it together.
Every founder eventually discovers the same thing: the barriers that feel uniquely yours aren't. Almost every scaling company hits the same growth barriers, each one convinced the struggle is theirs alone. So why learn it the hard way? That question is what we've spent years answering: a proven method, coaches with real operating experience, and a community that has already been where you're going. Today that work runs across Europe, one market at a time, led by entrepreneurs who chose to build it in their own country. Our mission is simple: help the next founder get there faster.
Values
What we stand for
Lead by example
Lead yourself first. We hold ourselves to the standards we coach.
Pursue excellence
Obsessed with better: in our craft, our sessions and our clients' results.
Empower growth
Build the structure. Hand over the keys. We're here to make you less dependent on us, not more.
Learn loudly, grow boldly
Play hard, learn harder. We share what we learn, wins and scars.
Not just theory, real results
Make it real. We measure our success by what actually changes inside your company.
Vision
Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal
By 2032, we aim to support the growth of 1,000 scaling companies at once.
One team, every market
The International Team
The people who build the method, hold the standards, and open the next market. These are the people building the House of Entrepreneurship.

[Full bio pending]
Bart van Nol
CEO, ScaleUp Company International

[Full bio pending]
Diana França
COO, ScaleUp Company International
[Full bio pending]
Paola Capuani
Client Success Manager, ScaleUp Company International

[Full bio pending]
Ted Køhlert van Zwieten
Co-Founder, Denmark

[Full bio pending]
Yigit Calli
Co-Founder, Türkiye

[Full bio pending]
Katya Velikova
Co-Founder, Bulgaria
Full bios pending from Diana (FB-062).
Local experience. International strength.
ScaleUp Company across Europe
We're building the largest network of scaling companies in Europe, one market at a time.
The map isn't finished.
Open a ScaleUp country
Every market starts with one entrepreneur: someone who has built and scaled a company, and now wants a bigger impact than one company can give them. Not by starting over. By putting what they learned to work on other people's ambitions. Want to open ScaleUp Company in your country?
Actively looking in Italy and Spain, and always open to a new market when the right partner arrives.
Part of something bigger
Our international network of ScaleUp Coaches
Order per Diana (27 Jul); roles corrected 3 Aug. Titles for the eight newest coaches await confirmation.
Mirik Castro
CEO, Netherlands

Daniel Ruff
Coach, Denmark

Marie Louise Fabrin
Coach, Denmark

Marco Locatelli
ScaleUp Coach

Michor Pleasure
CRO & Coach, Netherlands

Victor van Veelen
Coach, Netherlands

Jeroen Volk
Coach, Netherlands

Martijn Hendrikx
Coach, Netherlands

Erik Leene
Coach, Netherlands

Louise Verschuren
Coach, Netherlands

Kurt van Dijk
Coach, Netherlands

Diederik Rus
Coach, Netherlands

Willem Sodderland
Coach, Netherlands

Eddie van Breukelen
Coach, Netherlands

Felipe Munoz
Coach, Netherlands

Jasper Voorhoeve
Coach, Netherlands

Kirsten Goes
Coach, Netherlands

Louis Kinsbergen
Coach, Netherlands

Merijn de Jager
Coach, Netherlands

Nikki Wiesman
Coach, Netherlands

Remco van der Sluis
Coach, Netherlands
Find your market
Every conversation starts in your own country.
The method is the same everywhere. The person across the table isn't. They've built a company in your market and know what growth costs there. Pick your country and see what ScaleUp looks like on the ground.
Don't see your country? Diana França, COO, talk to the International team.
ProposalCountry routing, built from your 7 August note that the markets launch together. 0 of 5 have no site of their own yet, so those buttons are inert rather than pointed somewhere invented. Confirm the destinations and they all become links.

