ClimbUK North East · Wednesday 20 January 2027 · The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Put your spinouts in front of the right people
Bring your spinout founders to a day built around investment: how investors decide, whether the North is harder to raise in, and an evening with active investors and experienced business leaders.
Ready your spinouts for investment
Investment, made visible
Inside the Investment Committee shows your founders how investors evaluate an opportunity, before they face one for real.
A chance to pitch
Spinout founders can register interest in Founder Pitching and Investor Speed Networking. Selected businesses take the spotlight in the evening.
Bring the whole team
Founders, commercialisation staff and mentors all get something from the day. Each of them registers for a place.
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.
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.
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 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.
High-Energy Founder Pitching
Selected businesses take the spotlight and show what they’re building.
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.
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.
Turn research into a business case
Investors back businesses, not papers. Use the day to practise telling the business story.
- Ask each founder to tick Founder Pitching and Investor Speed Networking when they register.
- Watch the investment committee together, then talk it through as a team.
- Bring your mentors to the evening.
When you register, tick
- High-Energy Founder Pitching: “Yes, I would like to pitch”
- Investor Speed Networking: “Yes, as a founder raising investment”
Straight answers
Yes. Each person registers for their own place, so share this page with your founders.
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.