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SCGO Limited History

SCGO Limited is a company that largely goes under the radar in the UK, even though it probably shouldn’t. If you asked most players whether they’d ever heard of Vivaro, which is the company’s former name, you’d probably be told “no,” even though the majority of those players have most likely unknowingly played at an SCGO Limited casino or sports betting website. If you’re one of the many people who’ve never heard of this large-scale, successful casino network company before, allow us to be your guides. We’ll start with a little history, the full detail of which is available on the VBET Group website.

The SCGO Limited story began in Armenia in 2003 when the company was founded by brothers Vahe and Vigen Badalayan. There were only four people working for the company during those early days, and that’s including the founders. They didn’t immediately go online but instead started accepting bets on sports in a single betting shop in the Armenian city of Yerevan. The first Vivaro website, which is the site that eventually became VBet, was launched the following year. It was one of the first casino or betting websites of any kind to go live in the country. The next five years saw the fledgling brand make slow and steady progress, and by the end of the decade, the Vivaro brand included three hundred physical betting stores in Armenia. It was comfortably the largest betting company in its home country by 2009.

In 2011, Vivaro came up with a software platform called “BetConstruct.” The idea behind the software was not only to give VBet a new look but also to provide a template that third-party customers could work with. This was the beginning of what’s now SCGO Limited developing a white-label platform. All the operator’s sites that exist today were built on the BetConstruct platform, although the software itself has been revamped and re-imagined several times in the years since then. By now, Vivaro’s founders had started to dream of achieving success beyond its home country. Three years later, in 2014, the company acquired a Curaçao gaming licence. The regulator is lightly-regarded in the casino industry and isn’t universally seen as trustworthy, but obtaining the licence meant that SCGO Limited casinos could become available internationally for the first time. The prospects of a casino with only a Curaçao licence trying to operate in the UK aren’t great, but SCGO Limited built on that by obtaining a Malta Gaming Authority licence in 2015. That opened up several doors in European markets and allowed SCGO Limited casinos to gain a foothold.

The biggest breakthrough that SCGO Limited has had to date began in 2016 when VBet gained approval from the United Kingdom Gambling Commission for real-event betting. Remote casino and pool-betting permissions followed in 2017, allowing SCGO Limited to expand its UK proposition. VBet also received a French online sports-betting licence from ARJEL in 2017. With the UKGC licence secured, other licensing bodies and regulators began to take SCGO Limited seriously. By the end of 2018, the company had licences to operate in Slovenia, Latvia, Iceland, Finland, Andorra, and Germany. Germany has since become an especially important market for Vivaro, as the SCGO Limited betting shop that opened in Berlin in 2018 was the first one to open outside Armenia. A year later, the company secured the first of what would be a series of high-profile English Premier League commercial partnerships when it became the official betting partner of Arsenal Football Club. Arsenal legend and former England midfielder Ray Parlour became Vivaro’s new ambassador.

The years since have been no less eventful for SCGO Limited, which is now a global casino company in every sense of the word. The company obtained its first licence from the Swedish Gambling Authority in 2020, although that licence was revoked in 2021 after the company failed to begin operations under it. SCGO Limited returned to Sweden in 2023, and its current VBet licence there runs until 2028. VBet is also the official sports betting partner of AS Monaco in the French Ligue 1, while some of SCGO Limited’s white-label brands have previously held high-profile English Premier League partnerships. Esports betting partnerships followed in 2021, with VBet becoming the title sponsor of Swedish esports organisation Alliance.

While SCGO Limited has grown in some ways, it’s also shrunk in others. We say that because there used to be far more SCGO Limited casino sites than there are now. The company hasn’t been afraid to shut casino sites down if they’re not performing as well as the company would like them to do and has also sold some of its more successful brands off. SCGO Limited was the casino network company that brought Bet Bull to the marketplace, but Bet Bull is now an asset of Bet Bull Limited. M88, Ohm Bet and Tempo Bet are also former SCGO Limited casino brands that no longer operate on the network. The company has taken a “less is more” approach in recent years and currently focuses on the brands that have been proven successes. That’s not to say that new sites won’t be added in the years to come, but the current SCGO Limited casino network is leaner and meaner than it has been in several years.

SCGO Limited Facts and Figures

Reading the history of SCGO Limited gives you a feel for how far the company has come from humble beginnings during the past twenty years, but to truly understand how enormous the company is today, you have to look at the figures. We’ll start with sports betting. According to the most recent information available from VBet, the sportsbook covers more than 30,000 live matches and over 40,000 pre-match events every month. Over in the casino section, VBet itself offers more than two thousand games, alongside live dealer games, poker, eSports, virtual sports and fantasy sports.

SCGO Limited has grown into a sizeable international operation, and the company now has its own in-house software development team, which reduces the company’s dependency on third-party providers and has allowed it to develop a selection of exclusive betting features. These include “Hoory,” which is the virtual assistant that will greet you on the VBet homepage after you’ve logged into your account.

VBet’s mission, which is highlighted on its website in a vivid shade of hot pink, is to provide its members and players with a secure, safe gaming experience. That’s why it offers a wide range of legally permitted payment methods and ensures that customer service agents are available around the clock. Free-to-enter prize draws are often at the heart of promotions on SCGO Limited casino sites, ensuring that players can sometimes still win big even if they’re not spending any money. SCGO Limited describes itself as “the territory of thrill” and does everything within its power to live up to that statement.

SCGO Limited’s Licence Status

SCGO Limited is the proud holder of UK Gambling Commission licence 44662, which enables it to offer its casinos and betting websites to customers in the UK. The operator managed to keep its nose clean for quite a long time after entering the UK market, but that clean run came to an end in January 2023. That was the month that the UK Gambling Commission announced the outcome of a compliance assessment that was carried out in April 2021. The assessment didn’t go well for Vivaro, as it was known back then.

After conducting its review, the UKGC found that SCGO Limited had broken licence conditions designed to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. Furthermore, the company hadn’t interacted with customers in a way that minimised the risk of problem gambling. SCGO Limited wasn’t issued with a formal fine, but made a £337,631 settlement payment in lieu of such a fine. The settlement also included an additional licence condition requiring the operator to submit to a third-party audit within twelve months.

SCGO Limited has also faced more recent regulatory scrutiny in Sweden. In June 2026, the Swedish Gambling Authority issued the company with a corrective order after finding deficiencies in its general anti-money-laundering risk assessment, requiring updated documentation by 30 November 2026. That action relates to its Swedish licence rather than its UKGC licence, which remains active.

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