🌍 EIT Founders2Founders is an annual program designed to support young startups in their growth and expansion into international markets. It brings together successful founders, who act as mentors and experts, with emerging founders from various parts of Ukraine to help foster the development of national innovation projects.

✅ 60 thousand euros for the development received: 

– 1st place – 30 000 euro –  CareTech Human – a startup that develops solutions for remote monitoring of patients at home with the aim of radically changing the way people manage their health.

– 2nd place – 20 000 euro –  Geodesic Life – creates sustainable geodesic dome houses from prefabricated wooden elements, providing fast automated assembly in 1-2 months.

– 3rd place – 10 000 euro –  LLC ‘KARE’ – an innovative solution for seed treatment to increase crop yields and resilience to climate change and global food security challenges.

A few facts about this year’s programme:

✅ 70 startups accelerated
✅ 94 founders gained new knowledge and opportunities
✅ 41% of participants are women founders or in leadership positions within their teams
✅ 5 workshops held in 4 cities in Ukraine: Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Odesa

The program became a platform for experience exchange, inspiration, and building a community of innovative entrepreneurs. We are confident that such initiatives create new opportunities for the sustainable development of Ukrainian entrepreneurship.The EIT Founders2Founders: Training on Entrepreneurship powered by EIT Community RIS Hub Ukraine is implemented by Vacuum Deep Tech Acceleration with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, in cooperation with Diia City, National project Diia.Business, and YEP Accelerator.