ClimbUK North East · Wednesday 20 January 2027 · The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Grow your health business with the right people
Health and life sciences founders face long sales cycles and specialist investors. Spend a day on how investment decisions get made, then an evening with investors, founders and experienced leaders.
Built for the long road of health
Understand the investor view
Inside the Investment Committee shows how investors weigh risk, evidence and timing. Health businesses feel all three.
Talk about the hard parts
The Exclusive Roundtables are small and practical. Register your interest and bring the challenge that is slowing you down.
Fellow founders who get it
Find founders building in health and care, and hear what has worked for them.
Part one
Part one: you make the call
11am to 4pm, in the auditorium. Four live sessions, built for you to take part, not sit through.
Inside the Investment Committee
We recreate an investment committee meeting, so you see how investors evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions and make investment decisions.
Business Growth: You Make the Call
A scaling business hits something unexpected. Our live role-play puts real business challenges on stage, and the audience helps decide what happens next.
The Great Northern Investment Debate
Is it harder to raise investment in the North? Two opposing views, one lively debate, and an audience encouraged to challenge both sides.
The ClimbUK Business Growth Quiz
Think you know what it takes to build and scale a business? An interactive, fast-paced quiz, with prizes up for grabs.
Part two
Part two: the ClimbUK Takeover
From 5pm. A curated evening where the right people meet and conversations turn into opportunities.
Investor Speed Networking
Fast-paced, focused conversations between selected founders and active investors.
Exclusive Roundtables
Small, invitation-only discussions where founders, investors and experts tackle real business challenges.
High-Energy Founder Pitching
Selected businesses take the spotlight and show what they’re building.
Networking, ClimbUK Style
Great people, great conversations, and connections that could change the direction of your business.
Places for the evening’s structured activities will be strictly limited, with participants selected to ensure the right mix of people around the table.
Make the evidence work for you
Investors back health businesses that show where the evidence is going, not only where it is.
- Tick Investor Speed Networking and the roundtable question when you register.
- Watch the investment committee for how risk and evidence get weighed.
- Bring your evidence and commercial milestones, in one line each.
When you register, tick
- Investor Speed Networking: “Yes, as a founder raising investment”
- Exclusive Roundtables: “Yes, I would like to join one”
Straight answers
No one is promised a slot. Places are limited and we select founders to get the right mix. Register your interest when you book.
Wednesday 20 January 2027, at The Glasshouse, Gateshead. Part one runs from 11am to 4pm in the auditorium. The ClimbUK Takeover starts at 5pm.
Yes. Places are limited and advance registration is essential. One registration covers the day and the evening.
Tell us when you register: there is a question each for Investor Speed Networking, High-Energy Founder Pitching and the Exclusive Roundtables. Places are limited, and we select participants to get the right mix of people around the table. We come back to you before the day.
No. ClimbUK North East is one day in January. Climb27, The Festival for Business Growth, runs on 30 June and 1 July 2027.
ClimbUK North East
Wednesday 20 January 2027
The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Don’t just hear about the conversations afterwards. Be part of them.
Wednesday 20 January 2027, The Glasshouse, Gateshead. Places are limited and advance registration is essential.