ScaleUp

What ScaleUp does

ScaleUp (branded as ScaleUp365) is a private staffing and recruiting company founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York that connects U.S.-based companies with vetted remote international talent across technical, sales, and customer support roles. The company operates a three-tier service model: Recruitment (Success-Based Hiring) charges a fee only after a placed candidate remains for three months, with a full reimbursement guarantee; Staffing (Fully Managed Remote Hiring) acts as an Employer of Record, handling payroll, compliance, and benefits for a fixed monthly fee; and Screening-as-a-Service offers standalone candidate vetting including resume filtering, video assessments, supervised live skill testing, and integrity verification. ScaleUp's underlying technology stack combines an AI-powered Talent Search Engine with matching algorithms, AI chatbot pre-interviews that assess communication skills via NLP, predictive analytics for retention forecasting, and a recorded video interview platform, all backed by a proprietary pool of 15,000+ vetted professionals across 130+ countries.

The company serves a primarily B2B, sales-led customer base of U.S. technology firms, particularly B2B SaaS companies and startups (named customers include Dvora, Remofirst, DigitalOwl, and Team TenX), with additional demand from companies expanding globally that need distributed sales development, customer support, and engineering capacity without standing up international HR infrastructure. ScaleUp markets itself on a 50–60% cost-savings wedge versus U.S. local hiring, achieved primarily through wage arbitrage across talent hubs in India, Egypt, Philippines, Mexico, and El Salvador, and reports a 97% client and employee retention rate, 100,000+ CVs reviewed, 1,000+ rigorously vetted candidates, and 300+ successful placements as cumulative operating metrics.

ScaleUp operates a fully remote delivery organization spanning 50+ countries, supported by a small on-ground New York presence, and acquires customers through content marketing, SEO, and direct website CTAs rather than a large enterprise sales force. The company is privately held with no disclosed venture funding, parent company, or institutional investors; ownership commentary indicates founder-controlled, organic-growth operations since inception.

Name

ScaleUp

Legal name

ScaleUp365

Website

https://scaleup365.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

ScaleUp (ScaleUp365) is a New York-headquartered private staffing firm founded in 2018 that recruits, employs, and vets remote international talent for U.S.-based technology companies, offering success-based placements, fully managed EOR staffing, and standalone candidate screening.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA), Personality & Behavioral Assessments (BPACAMAC)

Keywords

• Remote talent staffing
• IT recruitment services
• Managed remote hiring
• International talent acquisition
• Candidate screening services

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Recruitment (Success-Based Hiring): Success-based fee only payable once candidate successfully placed and remains for 3 months. Full reimbursement if hire doesn't stay beyond 3 months. Zero upfront costs for hiring.
2. Staffing (Fully Managed Remote Hiring): Client pays fixed monthly invoice for managed remote employees. Company handles payroll, compliance, and benefits. Provides access to top global talent with full legal compliance.
3. Screening-as-a-Service: Screening process includes resume filtering, video assessment, live skill testing, and verification that no external assistance was used. Pricing depends on client list.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

ScaleUp (also branded as ScaleUp365) is a remote talent acquisition and staffing firm that connects U.S.-based companies with pre-vetted international professionals across tech, sales, and customer support roles. It operates three integrated service lines: success-based recruitment with no upfront fees, fully managed remote staffing covering payroll and compliance, and standalone candidate screening-as-a-service. Talent is sourced from a vetted pool spanning 130+ countries and delivered with claims of 50-60% cost savings versus local hiring and a 7-day placement timeline.

Product overview

ScaleUp operates as a remote talent acquisition platform offering three integrated service tiers: Recruitment (Success-Based Hiring) for direct placements with performance-based fees, Staffing (Fully Managed Remote Hiring) for fully outsourced team management including payroll and compliance, and Screening-as-a-Service for standalone candidate vetting. The platform specializes in connecting U.S. companies with pre-vetted talent across six core role categories: Customer Support & Success, Account Executives, SDRs, AI Engineers, Mobile Engineers, and Full Stack Developers. Talent is sourced from a global pool across 130+ countries with operations concentrated in India, Egypt, Philippines, and Mexico, enabling 50-60% cost savings versus local hiring.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recruitment (Success-Based Hiring) Placement service that connects companies with vetted remote talent across tech, sales, and support roles. Charges a success-based fee payable only after a candidate remains in the role for 3 months, with a full reimbursement guarantee if the hire does not stay. Targets U.S. companies seeking to hire SDRs, account executives, customer support, success professionals, and software engineers with zero upfront costs.
• Staffing (Fully Managed Remote Hiring) End-to-end managed service in which ScaleUp hires and manages remote employees on behalf of clients. The client pays a fixed monthly invoice while ScaleUp handles payroll, compliance, benefits, and legal requirements. Designed for businesses looking to expand globally without managing in-country HR operations.
• Screening-as-a-Service Pre-vetting service for employers that includes resume screening, video assessments, live supervised skill testing, and integrity verification (no external assistance such as Google or ChatGPT). Pricing depends on client requirements. Delivers a pre-vetted candidate pool ready to be added to the client's team.

Quantifiable outcome

• 97% client and employee retention rates
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Deel: Deel is a broad incumbent in global payroll, EOR, and contractor management, providing the same compliance and managed-services backbone that ScaleUp offers alongside its recruiting arm.
• Upwork: Upwork is a broad incumbent freelance marketplace where U.S. companies can independently source and vet global tech and support talent, competing with ScaleUp on the lower end of remote hiring.
• Globalization Partners: Globalization Partners is a broad incumbent EOR provider enabling companies to hire internationally without setting up entities — directly competitive with ScaleUp's compliance and payroll outsourcing value proposition.
• Remote: Remote.com is a broad incumbent in global EOR and managed international hiring, offering payroll, compliance, and contractor management that overlaps directly with ScaleUp's fully managed staffing service.

Direct peers

• Toptal: Toptal is a direct competitor in pre-vetted freelance tech talent placement, offering the top 3% of engineers and a similar premium, screening-led model to U.S. clients.
• Arc.dev: Arc is a direct competitor in remote developer hiring, providing a curated marketplace of pre-vetted engineers with time-zone alignment for U.S. startups and tech companies.
• Andela: Andela connects U.S. companies with vetted remote engineers from Africa and other emerging markets, operating a comparable managed-talent marketplace with success-based and staff-augmentation offerings.
• Hired: Hired is a direct competitor in tech talent marketplace recruiting, connecting U.S. technology companies with pre-vetted software engineers, data scientists, and product talent.
• Revelo: Revelo is a direct competitor in vetted Latin American remote tech talent placement for U.S. companies, offering similar time-zone-aligned sourcing, screening, and EOR services.
• Turing: Turing is a direct competitor offering AI-matched remote software engineers from a global talent pool, with deep vetting and success-based pricing — closely mirroring ScaleUp's core recruiting product for U.S. tech employers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scaleup365
• Instagraminstagram.com/scaleup365
• Facebookfacebook.com/scaleup500

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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