You are high-value sounding boards with deep industry expertise. Mentors provide invaluable guidance on refining business models, making key connections, and navigating startup challenges.  Active participation and enthusiastic support are essential for fostering the success of our startups.

• Investment

  • Business: $1,000

  • Individual: $250

• Requirements

• Provide a minimum of 4 hours of free consultation per startup, to startups of your choice. Mentor businesses may enter into service agreements with a startup after the initial 4 hours with the purpose of providing and extending professional services that will benefit the success of the startup. 

• Mentors must have extensive knowledge ranging from IP, legal, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, regulatory, operations, commercialization, R&D, etc.

• Vertical industry expertise is relevant e.g., finance, healthcare, manufacturing, environment, biotech, energy, etc.

• Benefits

• Early access to promising ventures

• Opportunity to build relationships with founders

• Pipeline for future business opportunities

• Mentors will be listed in our accelerator platform for business plan review, direct-connections and scheduling with founders

• Make a real impact. Mentoring allows you to directly contribute to the success of a budding entrepreneur and startup

• Tax write-off for a 501c6 business operations expense (check with your CPA)