At DARE, we tailor our support to early-stage deep tech startups, especially those from Emerging Europe, where opportunities can be more limited. By blending hands-on mentoring with an ecosystem approach, we help individual founders refine their business models and secure funding but also work closely with universities, incubators, and international organisations to build a supportive environment for deep tech and health innovations. Our partnership spans across Europe and provides our clients trusted entry-points to 21 markets. We have mentored more than 200 scientific teams into investment-ready startups, including women founders and innovators from Emerging Europe ("WIDENING" countries) the Western-Balkans and Türkiye. Diversity and inclusion are crucial to driving innovation and solving global challenges. That's why we are proud to work with a diverse community of change-makers, through networks like the UNDP STEMinists, WomenTechEU, EIC Tech2Market and EIC Communities of Practice in Health and we are part of the EIT Health Mentor and Coach network.