SCALE MANCHESTER

Name: SCALE MANCHESTER
Start: 2026-11-25T08:00:00
End: 2026-11-25T17:00:00
Location: Freight Island, The Gatehouse, 11 Baring St, Manchester, Manchester, England - M1 2PY

8am – 5pm 25 November 2026 Manchester Freight Island, The Gatehouse, 11 Baring St, Manchester, Manchester, England - M1 2PY

If you’re scaling in the North of England and want to do it well, SCALE SUMMIT is where you reset, recalibrate, and accelerate.

SCALE brings together first-time founders who understand the pressure you’re under, with experienced entrepreneurs who have built, scaled and exited. Not to flex, but to talk honestly about their scars and the solutions that saved them.

SCALE Manchester is where you’ll map your own constellation of scaleup support. This isn’t another conference. It’s a concentrated day that will connect you with the people who will genuinely help you scale.

At SCALE, active angels and VCs explain clearly who and what they back, how they think, and what they expect, so you can stop guessing and produce the pitch they've been looking for.

Drop dead weight, stop wasting time, surface real insight, and forge ahead.

WHO VISITS SCALE MANCHESTER?

Our visitors span the UK Scaleup ecosystem and include:

Founders/CEOs/MDs/Owners - This is the core of our audience. These individuals are making strategic decisions everyday to grow their businesses. Over two thirds of attendees to SCALE London were in this group.
Investors - Investors play a key role in our SCALE events. Our investor community includes Angels, PEs/VCs, accelerators and associations.
Ecosystem allies- Organisations and individuals with innovative solutions, products and services that help to turbocharge scaling businesses.

SME Programme activities

techUK help our SME members to do things they may struggle to do alone. We help them to affect policy that is beneficial to their businesses. We showcase their products and services to our audiences. We facilitate meetings and events, and we create opportunities for them to meet clients, customers, policy makers and politicians. Visit the programme page here.