Pitchfest, the UK's leading digital health start-up competition, returns in 2027, offering innovators the opportunity to showcase their ventures, gain expert feedback and connect with investors and industry leaders.

Applications for 2027 open soon.

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Pitchfest is the UK's digital health startup competition, bringing together some of the most exciting innovators in the sector to showcase their solutions to senior NHS leaders, investors and industry experts. It provides startups with a unique platform to raise their profile, build valuable connections and accelerate their growth within the NHS and wider healthcare ecosystem.

Over the years, Pitchfest has helped startups secure seed funding, develop NHS partnerships and progress their solutions from innovative ideas into real-world impact. Whether you're looking to connect with decision-makers, accelerate adoption or gain insight from industry experts, Pitchfest gives you access to the people and opportunities that can help move your business forward.

If you're ready to put your innovation in front of the people shaping the future of healthcare and compete alongside the UK's most ambitious digital health startups, Pitchfest is your opportunity to stand out.

Pitchfest 2026 winner

Valentina Millanova

"In digital health, the constraint is almost never the technology. It's access to the people who can say yes. Pitchfest puts you in front of NHS CIOs, CCIOs, commissioners and investors in the same room. It's a set of conversations that would otherwise take you a year of cold outreach and a budget you don't have. Apply for the access, not the trophy."

Valentina Milanova, Founder & CEO, Daye

Meet the runners up

Lucrezia Cester
Grant Nolan
Andrew Darby-Smith
Matt Kearney
Clint Schick
Lloyd Humphries
Ben Whateley

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