scale.URF Spotlight powered by PwC and Amazon Web Services
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3 months | AWS Credits | Benefits of PwC’s scale.Community | Commitment fee of €7.500 excl. VAT
Key facts about the
+10 startups (Seed Stage)
3-month duration
B2B or B2B2C Tech focus
Europe-based startups
Necessity of the program
13% of unicorns in Europe have at least one founder from an ethnic minority group.
1.8% of VC funding in Europe was raised by women-only teams in 2023.
scale. supports Underrepresented Founders in Europe
In partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), our program helps creating opportunities for underrepresented founders (URF) and supports them to scale and grow by bridging the gap between corporates and startups.
"Throughout the last two years we supported more than 31 URFs from different countries such as UK, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Austria and of course Germany. We enabled more than 300 qualified touchpoints with different stakeholder such as corporates, investors and multipliers leading to corporate collaborations, investments and PwC partnerships."
Jana Hermann | Co-Lead scale.URF Spotlight Program
+15,000 SME clients
are managed annually by PwC Germany
+70% German Unicorns
have worked with PwC Germany
+4 Scale Programs
are run at PwC Germany annually
+90% of participating Startups
have achieved a 2x ROI through our support
"It was great to connect with fellow founders and learn from their experiences. And also the masterclasses were incredible for us, because I really learned how to steer Hivebuy through the whole scaling process of the company."
Bettina Fischer Founder, Hivebuy
scale. Success Stories
scale. offers a dynamic platform that facilitates mutual exchange among startups, investors, and corporates, fostering collaborations, investments, and strategic partnerships.
Doinstruct raised 7.6 Mio. € 5 months after the program led by Creandum.
Cozero had a collaboration to develop an easy-to-use spreadsheet tool, enabling HÜBNER to create and share CO2 footprint data with customers.
Nuwo raised 2.75 Mio. € during the program from investors such as Redstone, IBB Ventures and Haufe Group Ventures.
Hivebuy raised seed funding during the program from investors such as Cusp Capital and Haufe Group Ventures.
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Funding
Go to Market
Scaling
Branding
Pricing
AWS GenAI
Fireside Chat
with scale.Alumni to create an entrepreneurial Q&A
Connect with moss, Complyance, rabot.charge and many more B2B scale ups and soonicorns!
Corporate Matchmaking
Corporate Dinner
Exclusive access and relationship building with +20 Corporates & Multipliers
Network Sessions
Exclusive virtual Q&A sessions to connect with +15 CVCs, VCs & Corporates
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