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Startups: Solve your biggest challenges at HLTH Europe 2025

Scaling a health startup is tough. Whether you're seeking investment, expanding into new markets, or standing out in a competitive landscape, HLTH Europe 2025 is designed to help you grow. Join us in Amsterdam this June for an unparalleled opportunity to accelerate your startup’s success.

HLTH Europe helps you grow

✅ Raise awareness & stand out

Make an impact in a crowded market. Whether through profile-raising sponsorship opportunities or high-value networking, HLTH Europe provides the visibility you need to attract customers, partners, and investors.

✅ Access your ideal customers

Finding the right decision-makers in healthcare is challenging, as is building trust and credibility, and navigating long sales cycles. At HLTH Europe, you’ll get maximum return on your time by meeting healthcare providers, insurers, government leaders and enterprise buyers all in one place who are actively seeking innovative solutions and have the authority to commit (1 in 3 attendees are C level, 92% of Europe’s top 25 providers attend HLTH Europe 2025). 

✅ Attract investment

Whether you’re raising your next round or looking to build relationships in anticipation of a future raise, it’s a competitive and complex market, but we make it easier.

  • Investor Connect: A complimentary, curated matchmaking programme linking you with VCs, PEs, and institutional investors for 1:1 meetings.

  • Meet 350+ investors: Engage with a global network of venture firms, angel investors, and strategic partners. By taking part in Investor Connect, you get full access to the Investor Connect Lounge at the heart of the showfloor - a hub of organic networking opportunities.

  • Exclusive networking: Join founder-investor networking brunches and speed networking events designed to build meaningful connections.

  • What's hot, what's not: Investor panel – A must-attend discussion on the sectors and technologies investors are backing in 2025.

  • Health meets wealth: What next for private equity in healthcare?" – Discover the shifting landscape of PE investments in healthtech and what it means for your startup.

  • Show me the money: New pathways, same pitfalls" – Navigating the challenges of reimbursement and monetization in the evolving healthtech market.

  • "Pimp my slides: The Dos & Don'ts of pitch deck building" – Get practical, no-nonsense feedback from top VCs on how to craft a winning pitch deck.

✅ Operational growth & scaling

Learn from those who’ve done it or investors who’ve enabled it. Don't miss startup-focused sessions like these:

  • Junction 100: The road to €100M revenue – Hear from founders who’ve scaled successfully.

  • The operations conversation: Hacks, hiccups & hard truths – A candid discussion on startup growth challenges.

  • So, you want to be a founder? – Thinking of starting your own health venture? Get real talk from experienced founders.

  • Organisational transformation: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast – Explore how startups can accelerate growth without losing stability in a highly regulated industry.

  • The Last Round: Investor-Founder brunch – Close HLTH Europe with high-impact investor conversations over brunch.

  • HLTH Europe Startup Pitch and EIT Catapult Pitch Finals - Don’t miss the chance to watch other startups in action – your front-row seat to the next wave of healthtech and life sciences breakthroughs. HLTH Europe startup pitch applications closed at the end of February 2025.

✅ Market Access

Considering international expansion? Don’t miss sessions like: 

  • Not the wurst place to scale: How to grow in germany – Navigate Europe's largest healthcare economy.

  • The Revolution is Here: Scaling in France – France’s healthtech scene is booming, supported by billions in government funding. Learn how to capitalize on this growing market.

  • Broken, but not beaten: Scaling in the NHS – Despite challenges, the UK remains Europe's top healthtech investment hub. Discover how to navigate NHS regulations and funding to scale successfully.

  • The Nether-land of opportunity: Scaling in the Netherlands – With one of the world’s best healthcare systems, the Netherlands offers a strong infrastructure for scaling. Learn how to break into this thriving market.

  • The American Dream: Scaling healthcare startups in the U.S. – Break into the world’s biggest healthcare market.

✅ Acquire or be acquired

Considering the role of M&A in your growth? Dedicated sessions like the following are must-attends:

  • M&A: Turning the Tide in a Turbulent Market –Understand exit opportunities and strategic acquisitions.


Startup agenda

🎟 One Ticket, All Access For a single, heavily discounted startup ticket price, you’ll get: ✔ Access to all content, networking, and investor sessions ✔ Exclusive startup and investor lounges ✔ Evening events, parties, and entertainment ✔ All-inclusive food & drink

Don’t miss out. Secure your ticket today and take your startup to the next level.


About HLTH Europe


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HLTH Europe is the continent’s #1 healthcare innovation event. Following an enormously successful first event in 2024 and the exponential growth of HLTH in the US, this landmark event is where global expertise meets local insight to address Europe's unique healthcare challenges and opportunities.

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2025 | HLTH Europe: 16-19 June | Amsterdam
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