Academy of Health Unicorns – Healthtech founder’s essential business toolkit

Launching a HealthTech or Biotech venture is a unique journey – marked by longer timelines, tough regulations, and significant capital needs. The “Academy of Health Unicorns” is a top notch training programme designed specifically for researchers with medical backgrounds. Building on DARE Innovations' real-life experience guiding over 200 deep tech startups (80% in health and biotech) to investment-ready ventures, the course helps scientific founders build strong business and entrepreneurial foundations needed for overcoming complex systems and administrative hurdles. In over 8 weeks, participants engage with innovative online training modules and discuss their business-critical questions in 3 dedicated online mentoring sessions with experts seasoned in health tech business and investment. The benefit of this service is for participants to be equipped with clarity on what it takes to build, fund, and launch a successful health venture. They shall find answers to: How to build a compelling business plan investors will understand? What are the core regulatory and business milestones for market entry? How to adopt the ‘investor mindset’ and secure funding confidently?. The expected outcomes of this service are for researchers to become confident as HealthTech entrepreneurs, who are equipped to navigate complex systems, make strategic business decisions and significantly increase their venture's likelihood of success