Lead Mentors engage with one team of founders on a deeper level for the duration of the program.

The difference is time commitment, not ability to help.

Lead mentors typically spend more time with companies during the program, meeting regularly with them (typically 30- to 60-minutes per week), helping them through snags and being there for them when they need you.

‘Tinder for Mentoring’

After your first Mentor-Founder interaction, we seek a ‘double opt-in’ whereby Founders need to opt in for you to be their Lead Mentor and You (the mentor) need to opt in to be their Lead Mentor. If you don’t want to commit to be a Lead Mentor for any company, that’s also okay. Though we do expect that you would be happy to help out if asked and on an ad-hoc & as-needed basis.

The Lead Mentor-Founder relationship is up to the Founder & the Mentor to build and sustain.

Many Lead Mentors continue to hold close relationships with the founders they work with all the way through to exit.

Some become investors, some take up advisory roles and some become co-founders! Some others simply reduce to a less frequent cadence of keeping in touch.