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About our business

ScaleUp Advisors are your business partners in your scaleup journey. ScaleUp Advisors founder, Tim Warren, has been working in and with startups and scaleups for more than a decade. He has experienced the full range of challenges that startups and scaleups deal with. This includes supercharged growth, successful exits, capital raisings and even wind ups.

 

Why we can do this

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ScaleUp Advisors can provide these services as its team has been there before. Examples of outcomes achieved include:​

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Product & Market Viability

  • Initiated and developed pricing strategies in mobility and travel management to maximise margins and out compete the competitors.

  • Growing the physical footprint for a mobility business from 2 sites in Sydney to 25 sites across Australia and New Zealand inside 3 years.

  • Establishment of greenfield businesses in SE Asia and New Zealand.

  • Development of key strategic initiatives for a new mobility provider resulting in average annual revenue growth of 119% and average profit growth of 160% over 36 months.

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Insightful Business Planning

  • Development of financial models incorporating key business drivers to deliver on growth plans

  • Inclusion of key performance indicators incorporating non-financial indicators such as headcount and asset utilisation to drive profitability outcomes

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A Compliance Culture:

  • Negotiations with the ATO on transfer pricing disputes.

  • Implementation of Advanced Pricing Agreements for cross border transactions

 

Fuel 4 Growth

  • Led fund raising from new and existing investors utilising different debt and equity instruments.

  • Finance and operations lead in the sale of Right2Drive to ASX listed Eclipx Group for $70m delivering initial investors >20x their investment.

  • Acquisition by Coleman of the ESKY business resulting in new channels to market and +30% revenue and profit growth.

  • Due Diligence activities across multiple entities including Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Taylors Wines & Sunrice.

 

Transformational

  • Led redomicile of a headco from UK to Australia driven by tax risks and poor upfront planning.

  • Led multiple ERP and business system implementations (SAP, Oracle, Xero, TSD Car Hire) across the operations and the financial management of the business.

 

Industries

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We have worked extensively across a number of industries, including:

  • Consumer Goods (Food, beverages, recreational products)

  • Identity Solutions

  • Agriculture

  • Proptech

  • VR & AR

  • Mobility and Micro Mobility

  • Travel Management

  • Resources

Whilst immersion in a particular industry provides significant insights, the challenges that startups and businesses scaling up face are common across all businesses.​

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