Why Richard Harpin sold half of homeServe for half a million pounds — and what he’d do differently Business At SCALE SUMMIT on 23 April, HomeServe founder Sir Richard Harpin joined SCALE Chairman Andrew B Morris for a Chairman’s Chat on the decisions, mistakes and principles behind one of Britain’s most remarkable entrepreneurial journeys. Richard Harpin built HomeServe from nothing into a £4.1 billion business sold to Brookfield in 2023. Over 30 years, he [...]
The Super scaler playbook: What Sam Smith wants every founder to know Business City AM proudly partnered with SCALE EXPO & SUMMIT on 22 April. ScaleUp Institute CEO Irene Graham sat down with Sam Smith, entrepreneur, former finnCap CEO, and founder of the Super Scalers. Their candid conversation, around ‘Growth, Myths and Mindset Shifts’, covered what it really takes to scale a business to £50 million and beyond, [...]
Firms fuelling Britain’s fastest-growing businesses join forces at SCALE Event Organisations backing the UK’s most ambitious growth-stage companies will convene at SCALE EXPO & SUMMIT next week, at London’s Business Design Centre. Sky Media, City AM, Grant Thornton, Corporate Traveller, DPD, Innovate UK Business Connect, HiBob andMercer are among a powerful group of partners actively accelerating scaleup growth across capital, talent, operations, media and innovation. [...]
IBM: AI adoption stalls as UK businesses lack clear strategy April 10, 2026 UK businesses are adopting AI at a pace, but many are still struggling to convert that momentum into real, meaningful financial returns. According to IBM’s Race for ROI study, 66 per cent of British enterprises report significant productivity improvements from AI, with 63 per cent of senior leaders citing noticeable efficiency gains post-adoption. There seems [...]
UK’s Disruptors, Innovators and Growth Hackers collide as SCALE Tables announced for April Summit April 2, 2026 New roundtable format brings curated, peer-level conversations to SCALE SUMMIT, inviting founders, investors and business leaders to “constructively disagree” to drive growth. SCALE SUMMIT, the UK’s leading event for ambitious, fast-growing businesses, has announced details of SCALE Tables – a roundtable experience running across both days of the Summit, designed to cut through the noise [...]
From start-up to scale-up: shifting the focus to support for female entrepreneurs March 10, 2026 As part of our partnership with Scale and the Women Who Scale initiative, City AM sat down with Sam Smith, the former chief executive of FinnCap, to discuss one of the key challenges holding back female start-up founders and what can be done to help female-led scaleups. While the spotlight often shines on the funding [...]