Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
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Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### SCHEDULE 14A
<div align='center'>PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(A) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</div>

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| ☐                           |     | Preliminary Proxy Statement                                                     |     |                                             |
| ☐                           |     | Confidential, for Use of the Commission only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) |     |                                             |
| ☒                           |     | Definitive Proxy Statement                                                      |     |                                             |
| ☐                           |     | Definitive Additional Materials                                                 |     |                                             |
| ☐                           |     | Soliciting Material under § 240.14a-12                                          |     |                                             |

#### DARÉ BIOSCIENCE, INC.
<div align='center'>(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)</div>

<div align='center'>(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement if Other Than the Registrant)</div>

Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply):

| ☒ |     | No fee required                                                                                     |
| ☐ |     | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials                                                      |
| ☐ |     | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11 |

#### Daré Bioscience, Inc.
<div align='center'>3655 Nobel Drive, Suite 260

San Diego, California 92122</div>

#### Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

#### To Be Held On June 12, 2025
Dear Stockholder:

Notice is hereby given that the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Daré Bioscience, Inc., a Delaware corporation, will be held on June 12, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time for the following purposes, as more fully described in the accompanying proxy statement:

| 1. 
 2. |     | To elect three Class II directors named in the accompanying proxy statement;                                                                        
 To ratify the appointment of Haskell & White LLP as our independent registered