Entrepreneurs are brave risk-takers who rarely find success independently. They depend on a complex ecosystem of funders, regulators, mentors and partners to bring their innovations to life.

Locally in the Baltimore-Washington area, we have all of the right ingredients to support them: industry experts, academics, effective accelerators and incubators, investors, regulators and innovative, established companies.

We are facing a national healthcare crisis and reckoning with the gaps in access, affordability and equity, which poses a huge opportunity for our regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. We need to act with a sense of urgency to support it in this important endeavor of bettering our healthcare system.

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