Scale Up Summit | From Survival to Scale — Becoming Undeniable in the AI Era
Most scaleups have traction. Far fewer have what it takes to make investors, international partners, and global talent say yes without hesitation. This Summit brings together founders, growth-stage leaders, investors, and internationalization experts to dig into the hardest questions in scaling: how do you become truly undeniable — to capital, to new markets, and to the people you need to get there — when every competitor is also deploying AI?
Powered by Team ScaleUp and Epicenter Acelerate, this session goes beyond the pitch deck and the market entry playbook. Through honest conversation and practical frameworks, participants explore how to build the narrative, operating model, and cross-border presence that makes scaling feel inevitable — not accidental.
Topics include investor storytelling in the AI age, cracking international markets without losing what made you win at home, the talent premium for human-led cultures, and how Nordic scaleups can use trust, transparency, and psychological safety as a competitive edge on the global stage. Participants will also get direct access to Epicenter Advisory's expertise — from accelerator programs and innovation coaching to fully customized support for scaleups at every stage of the journey.
Because in a world where AI compresses every operational advantage, culture and credibility travel further than code.
Head of Accelerate at Epicenter Stockholm
FATHER, FOUNDER, DIGITAL GEEK AND TENNIS FREAK!
Jack Melcher-Claësson is a serial entrepreneur with a number of companies that he´s been a part of starting and operating for the past 20 years. At his current day job he runs Accelerate Program for Startups and Scaleups at Epicenter Stockholm.Jack is the founding partner of Hidden VC, Create Communication, Everysport Media Group (former Traveas AB) and more. As his night job Jack is an often hired speaker & moderator within various topics (see next pages). He also works as a senior advisor to a number of companies.
He´s specialized in early stage, lean startup, digital innovation and transformation, go to market strategies, story-telling, fundraising and crowdfunding.
CEO and co-founder of Team Scaleup
Siavash Habibi is CEO and co-founder of Team Scaleup, a Swedish investment readiness accelerator helping European scaleups become Series A-ready. Before Team Scaleup, he was a Business Building Expert at McKinsey, and COO/Co-founder at TechBuddy.
He has spent his career at the intersection of strategy and scaling — advising, operating, and building companies across international markets. At Team Scaleup, he and his co-founders are working to close scaleup readiness, which they call "the 3rd issue", after capital and regulation. Less than one in five European post-seed companies successfully raise Series A, and Team Scaleup exists to change that number.
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