Scale-Ups' Outsized Impact on Jobs:
Scale-ups address the challenge of unemployment
by driving innovation, strengthening value chains,
and paving the way for long-term expansion.
Endeavor believes that by providing a blend of
support services to Endeavor Entrepreneurs, it can
help to further accelerate scale-ups and transform
economies through high-impact entrepreneurship.
Endeavor Insight looked
at nine countries in
which Endeavor operates
and found that scale-ups
represent 5
–20% of
companies yet create
30
–75% of new jobs.
% of companies
that are scale-ups
% of new jobs that are
created by scale-ups
What are Scale-Ups?
Scale-ups are companies that are
more than three years old and
have a minimum of 20% average
annual employment growth.
Brazil
20%
47%
Colombia
8%
45%
Jordan
9%
53%
Lebanon
12%
51%
Mexico
6%
30%
Peru
13%
32%
Philippines
5%
75%
Turkey
10%
41%
Uruguay
6%
55%
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