SCALED UP
VENTURES
Scaled Up Ventures partners with entrepreneurs, operators, and early-stage businesses to turn promising ideas into sustainable, scalable companies.
We bring together strategy, operational experience, relationships, creative resources, and execution to help build businesses with long-term potential.
Building bold ideas
Into scalable businesses
The Man Behind The Mission
Dave
Barrett
Founder · Scaled Up Ventures
Dave Barrett has spent his career building businesses, identifying opportunities, and bringing the right people together to turn ideas into something real.
He built and sold a wholesale insurance brokerage and currently serves as President of Team RTP at CRC Specialty. Alongside his work in insurance, Dave founded Scaled Up Ventures as a platform for developing businesses and strategic partnerships across industries including wellness, creative services, equipment leasing, and real estate.
His approach is collaborative and hands-on: identify a strong opportunity, surround it with the right people and resources, and build a structure that can grow.
[01]
Meet Dave
Founder & Managing Partner
[02] Our Businesses
Built Through
Partnership
Scaled Up Ventures works across multiple industries, building and supporting businesses where strong ideas, capable operators, and market opportunities come together.
[03] How We Think
Great Businesses
Are Built
Together
Scaled Up Ventures is not a traditional venture capital firm.
We are interested in entrepreneurs, early-stage companies, and unconventional business ideas where the right partnership, strategy, resources, or operational support could unlock meaningful growth.
Sometimes that may involve an existing company. Sometimes it may begin with an early-stage business. And sometimes it may simply begin with a strong idea and the right person behind it.
What matters most is whether there is an opportunity to build something valuable together.
A.
Strong Ideas
+Strong Ideas
We look for ideas that solve real problems, serve identifiable markets, or create a meaningful improvement over what already exists.
B.
Capable Operators
+Capable Operators
A great idea still needs the right person behind it. We value people who are committed, resourceful, coachable, and willing to execute.
C.
Strategic Fit
+Strategic Fit
Not every opportunity needs the same type of help. Some businesses need operational guidance. Others need marketing, technology, introductions, infrastructure, or an experienced partner.
D.
Long-Term Potential
+Long-Term Potential
We are interested in opportunities that can become sustainable businesses, not simply short-term projects.
[04] Ideas
What We're
Looking For
You do not need to already be highly profitable or raising a traditional venture capital round.
What matters is the opportunity, the person behind it, and whether we believe we can create something meaningful together.
We welcome submissions from entrepreneurs at different stages. You may be:
Exploring a promising business idea
Building an early-stage startup
Running a young business that needs strategic support
Looking for an experienced business partner
Seeking help with operations, marketing, technology, growth, or business development
Building something unconventional that does not fit the traditional startup model
Looking for the right people and resources to help move an opportunity forward
[05] Apply
Have an
Idea Worth
Building?
If you have a startup, an early-stage business, or simply a strong business idea and believe the right partnership could help move it forward, we would like to hear about it.
Tell us what you're building, why you believe the opportunity exists, and where you think you need help.
We review submissions to identify opportunities where Scaled Up Ventures or one of our operating partners may be able to contribute meaningful value.
01
Submit Your Idea
Tell us about the business, opportunity, or concept you are working on.
02
Initial Conversation
If we believe there may be a strong fit, our team will reach out for an introductory conversation.
03
Explore the Opportunity
We look at the business model, market, team, challenges, and where a strategic partnership could add value.
04
Build the Right Partnership
Every opportunity is different. If there is alignment, we determine what working together could look like and build the partnership around the opportunity.
[06] Podcast
Scaled Up
Ideaswith Dave Barrett
Real conversations with entrepreneurs, business leaders, operators, and unconventional thinkers about what it actually takes to build something significant.
No hype. No theory for theory's sake.
Just conversations about ideas, execution, challenges, opportunities, and the lessons learned while building businesses.
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Episodes
Format
Video + Audio
Regularly
New Episodes
[07]
Have something worth building?
Bold Ideas.
Built Together
Whether you already have an early-stage business or simply an idea you believe deserves a real opportunity, we want to hear about it.