Scaleup Finance Reviews 19

The ScaleUp team has shown up on time and delivered what they've promised over several years of collaboration. Can totally recommend if you're looking for a fractional CFO with good generalist financial skills!

The perfect partner for an early stage needing a ready made, pragmatic, tech first, finance team.

The team integrate into the wider business - sales, delivery, people etc - as much or little as you like, adapting to your business’s comm tools and style.

Our CFO Partner, Sam, was very understanding of our stage of business and organised the team according to our (ever changing) operating needs.

They brought new ideas and tooling to the party, playing a key part in automating our processes and readying us for scale.

Put simply, they felt part of the team and I would certainly recommend.

Dealing with financials is never fun. I needed help that could fit my budget and that could deliver sooner rather than later. Fortunately, the team at Scaleup was able to help me get everything in order. They were professional, available, and most importantly, affordable.

I highly recommend them.

As a seed-stage VC backed startup, we had a growing list of financial challenges but weren't sure if the timing was right to bring in a CFO partner. We pulled the trigger anyway and it turned out to be one of our best calls we did that year.

Scaleup Finance didn't just meet our already high expectations, they blew past them. They understood our setup fast, identified what actually mattered, and helped us build the financial foundation we needed. That foundation, among other things, directly contributed to us oversubscribing our latest funding round.

The dedicated fractional CFO they matched us with was a perfect fit. Having that person in place meant we as founders could stay focused on product and commercial — which is exactly where we needed to be.

If you're debating whether it's "too early" for this kind of support, it probably isn't. I'd recommend Scaleup Finance without hesitation.

I’ve really enjoyed working with the team at Scaleup Finance. My CFO has been a massive help and really enabled us to grow.
Everyone we have worked with quickly gets our business and has been able to give us great ideas and recommendations. I can really trust them to get our numbers in order so we can focus on growing our business.

Scaleup Finance stepped in when we needed to outsource our accounting function, provided great CFO advice and helped us a lot during various audit processes!

Sam and has team are very professional and have helped us navigate a tricky period. Now as we target sustained growth their insight is helping us scale up and improve processes.

Non-existent CFO as a service.

As another reviewer mentions, they over-promise and under deliver. I fully agree with the fact that they are stretching their CFOs thinly, hence you end up paying a premium for something that isn't delivered.

A core example: We need to check everything twice, our CFO-numbers haven't been closed since december 2024 (and it's september 2025) now, and despite having been a customer for a year, their core IT still doesn't work properly (invoice/voucher handling).

Best advice, find someone else.

I love Scaleup! They are our fractional CFO as a service and also look after all our day-to-day financial operations / systems and financial modelling. I love having a dedicated CFO and Finance Specialist for the day-to-day, with a deep well of expertise supporting them. All the Scaleup folks we're worked with are smart, they have quickly gained an understanding of our business and delivered tangible pragmatic recommendations and improvements that have significantly reduced the burden of finance on me as the founder and COO. Most of all, they behave like an extension of our team - I trust and value them.

Scaleup Finance has helped us hugely along our rapid-growth journey, giving our lean finance team much-needed support and access to expertise, helping us improve our systems and processes at a crucial stage in our development. They have also been great for helping us with the timely production of management accounts and consolidated reporting at a group level, reducing the amount of manual work required significantly and freeing up our resources so we can focus on other important aspects to drive the business forward.

Do not use. They over promise and don’t deliver. They try and stretch their CfO’s between too many clients so they aren’t actually able to do their jobs and you as the customer are the one who suffers.

I own a startup and “subscribed” to a CFO. After a year of not delivering the help and support they were supposed to, meaning I was effectively running my company blind, they sent invoices not owed directly to the receipt software they set up instead of to me, giving me no chance to challenge. As they had not completed the onboarding that was supposed to be done in January, was not owed. (This was August) the MD then told me to do the right thing and pay for the bookkeeping they had done which I offered to do, he then used the same contract that said I owed him nothing to try and charge me 4x more.

There are some nice people there but they are a start up themselves and simply disorganised and incapable of delivering what they promise.

It’s a shame as thought it was a great concept. If only their product was as good as their marketing.

Spammers. Added me to a mailing list I have no interest in, and they don't even give you the option to unsubscribe!

Scaleup Finance has been instrumental to Butter's growth.

We've been working with them for close to 3 years, and they have simultaneously provided unparalleled finance admin support as well as strategic CFO advisory on everything from budget planning to fundraising.

They've taken away the pain of reporting to investors and allowed me to simply focus on the running the business.

Absolute game changer - can't recommend highly enough!

I've now used ScaleUp across three different companies I am an investor in and will happily add another. ScaleUp delivers a top tier solution at a pricepoint point any startup can afford. Service is best in class and I struggle to see why I should consider hiring in-house CFO's in any of my companies, with the performance I get from ScaleUp.

The strategic financial advice and sparring sessions with an experienced startup CFO have been invaluable. It's like having a seasoned financial mentor right by your side, guiding you through the complexities of scaling up. They understand the unique challenges that startups face and tailor their advice to your specific situation.

With ScaleupFinance I raised investment and professionalised my finance at an afforable price.

Scaleup supported me in creating a strong an detailed financial forecast that allowed me to raise funding successfully. Since, they have been instrumental in creating financial reports that I need for raising both investments and soft funding.

ScaleupFinance is a vital partner in my day-to-day operations in managing the financials of my scaling company Jamii.one. My Scaleup team supports me on being on top of our accounting with digital processes setup so that I only have to do a minimum. They also handle my reporting to institutional loans providers. As well, I am supported on everything salary and avoid a lot of complexity related with this.

My CFO partner supports me in the overview on our operations, track financial performance, and getting the best setup in our finances.

Thank you to Cindy, Niklas, Michael, Sebastian and others at Scaleup.

Charlotte Rønje
CEO
Jamii.one