Newcastle Startup Week

a 5 day festival to help you start or grow your business in the North East of England

Startup Week

Newcastle Startup Week is an annual 5 day (& night) festival that takes place in multiple venues across Newcastle upon Tyne & Gateshead in May with the aim of inspiring, motivating, encouraging & helping more people to ‘Start Something New’ in the North East of England.

Our 2017 & 2018 events both attracted over 600 delegates from across the UK & around the world & in 2019 the number increased to 800 (see video below)! Our next event will be on 18-22 May 2020.

With each day themed as ‘Inspiration’, ‘Getting Started’, ‘Funding & Finance’, ‘Growing & Scaling’ & then ‘Keep Going or Pivot?’ – Newcastle Startup Week is the perfect place to bring your ideas to life!

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Steven Bartlett (CEO, Social Chain Group) said: "I had the best time today speaking at #NewcastleStartupWeek! So great to see an event of this quality in the region supporting entrepreneurs 🙏🏽 Superbly organised and a brilliant audience too. Love Newcastle! Thanks @lordlancaster"

Newcastle Startup Week partners with Wolves Summit – Europe’s leading investment-focused event for startups!

January 9, 2020

Looking for investment for your tech/digital startup? If so, you need to be at the 11th Wolves Summit in Warsaw, Poland on 24-25 March 2020! Wolves Summit is Europe’s leading conference dedicated to valuable networking & matching of investors with tech businesses at various stages of development & from every relevant sector. To do this, … More Newcastle Startup Week partners with Wolves Summit – Europe’s leading investment-focused event for startups!

OMG! Geoff Ramm to keynote on Day 1 of Newcastle Startup Week 2020!

January 8, 2020

We’re delighted to announce that Geoff Ramm will be making a rare appearance in his native North East to deliver TWO talks for us on Day 1 (‘Inspiration’) of Newcastle Startup Week 2020 – his ‘Origin Story’ at the start of the day & his ‘OMG Marketing’ keynote to close the event! Geoff says: “Startup … More OMG! Geoff Ramm to keynote on Day 1 of Newcastle Startup Week 2020!