Irene Carrión Álvarez

Leading distributor of European public funds for tech innovation. We champion entrepreneurs and innovators eager to ignite their growth to rewrite their future through easy-to-apply funding opportunities, including FSTP/cascade funding/Open Calls, and tailor-made acceleration programmes. We dynamise Deep Tech communities gathering champions in their respective fields. We matchmake global brands and investors with promising startups to put on track profitable collaborations that will accelerate their innovation processes. We connect projects with regional innovation ecosystems (within and beyond Widening) We develop and apply decentralised SSI tools to improve the traceability and transparency of funding distribution as well as to facilitate evidence-based investment decisions from both public and private players investing in start-ups and other highly innovative companies. We also help research teams in their tech transfer and sustainability strategies, providing methods and tools for early testing of the market fit of the product or service being developed that are based on open innovation and lean startup methodologies.