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Hosted by Barclays Eagle Labs
When
Tuesday 3 November 2026
12:30pm
Where
Barclays Head Office
1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HP, London
Price
free
Barclays Eagle Labs' curated investor demo day for UK university spinouts: 45 ventures, all actively raising, pitching across three concurrent stages - Life Sciences; MedTech, Physical Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing; and DeepTech and Frontier Technology. Barclays says it convenes around 200 active investors per demo day.
Doors 12:30 at Barclays' Canary Wharf head office, a panel first, founder pitches from 13:45, networking 15:00 to 16:15. Benjamin Storey, Barclays' Head of Investor Connectivity, opens. The panel has Tom Adeyoola, CEO of Innovate UK, Anne Dobree, Investment Director at Parkwalk, and Riam Kanso, CEO of Conception X, who also host the Life Sciences and DeepTech stages. Free to attend.
a year of spinout dealflow in one afternoon, with the investors who write cheques for it in the room. Best for angels, deeptech and life-science VCs, and university commercialisation teams.
Barclays Head Office, 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HP, London
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Location
Barclays Head Office
1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HP, London
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