How to Use scale-up in a Sentence

scale-up

noun
  • Field testing and scale-up remain future steps.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Start-up and scale-up businesses have an important role to play here.
    — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • Pushing through the startup phase of a business to achieve true scale-up status is hard.
    — Emma Westley, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Fat tissue in people with MHO seems to be adept at this scale-up.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The pair are pressing ahead with a massive scale-up, both at home and across Southeast Asia.
    — Cat Wang, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Execution risk on this massive scale-up.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These spaces could be the home of startups and scale-ups that create good-paying jobs and strengthen the city’s tax base.
    — Adolfo Carrión Jr, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
  • The final phase will be the scale-up to full production capacity.
    — Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Le Berre says Lhyfe isn’t waiting for improvements to plan its offshore scale-up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2023
  • But the challenge is also not out of line with other scale-ups, like recent booms in the solar and wind industries.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2024
  • Raising new finance will help with the research and development required for this scale-up.
    — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Two-thirds of the value created in new businesses happens during scale-up.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Rapid scale-up of renewables is unlikely to be a point of controversy (although the rate might be).
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • In his previous role, as growth manager at a fast-growing scale-up, Marks had run into a problem.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Transitioning from startup to scale-up is a pivotal moment in your business journey.
    — Mustansir Paliwala, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The companies are there, the exit market is vibrant, and the demand for scale-up capital is in excess.
    — Aman Ghei, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Importantly, such a scale-up doesn’t require additional lines of code.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2023
  • Investments in both post-seed start-ups as well as scale-ups at the intersection of fashion and technology.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Copper remains the go-to material for scale-up connections.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • The road from startup to scale-up was fraught with risk, but the rewards were potentially astronomical.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • One of them, though, will be of particular interest to Britain’s startup and scale-up businesses.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This represents an unprecedented scale-up.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Building a material still requires the gritty work of synthesis, testing, and scale-up.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The first tranche unlocks with the initial 1-gigawatt rollout, with subsequent tranches tied to the full 6-gigawatt scale-up.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • What used to take months—tech transfers, process validations, scale-ups—can now be accelerated by systems that learn, adapt and guide the path forward.
    — Rahul Saluja, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Lower energy prices for consumers will require the scale-up of renewables, the quickest and fastest source of electric power to bring online.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Both companies appear to be in perfect alignment on the use of optics for scale-out and the timing on when optics may play a larger role in scale-up connections.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As the Lab moves from start-up to scale-up status, philanthropic support remains critical, Cornfeld told me.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The legal sector isn’t the obvious place to look for high-growth scale-up businesses, other than in the innovative legaltech segment.
    — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Adobe achieved a 20x scale-up in model training within six months by utilizing AWS services.
    — Chetan Mathur, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024

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