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Startups
Find out how we empower innovators to take their early-stage startup to the next level.
Overview
As a mentor, your insights and experience can be pivotal in helping founders overcome obstacles and scale their businesses effectively, having a direct impact on their success.
Mentoring enables you to examine existing challenges from different perspectives, not only providing startups with innovative solutions but also honing your own strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
Join our diverse network spanning 20+ countries and 30+ industries. Connect with forward-thinking individuals and organizations worldwide, enabling potential collaboration, partnerships, or even new business opportunities.
As a mentor with us, you get to work closely with ambitious innovators. Many are building businesses for the first time and need guidance across different areas. This is where you step in. Whether you're a successful founder or an industry specialist, this is your chance to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and learn along the way.
Our 3-month accelerator program is packed with workshops, where mentors like you share their expertise. You can choose which startups you'd like to mentor, ensuring a mutual fit. Plus, you'll be involved in events that help select the startups joining our program. It's a hands-on experience that benefits both mentors and startups.
Work closely with startups on a weekly basis and will often form part of the “SBC Advisory Board” for the duration of the program.
All advisory mentors will get the opportunity to meet participating teams face-to-face, play a role in selection, and then decide which startups they want to engage with.
For those who don’t have time to dedicate themselves to a particular team, we have a secondary pool of standby experts that will work with one or more startups on an ad-hoc basis.
They provide niche advice, troubleshoot problems startups face, and provide introductions to their personal network.
The time commitment is on an as-needed basis when best suits.
"Being a mentor with Startupbootcamp is a very rewarding experience. It gives mentors the opportunity to share their experience and their network and engage with very driven founders who are building the next cohorts of companies. Both mentors as well as founders learn a lot through the mentoring process as introductions are made, ideas are exchanged, put to the test and, if viable, adopted."
"The pitching sessions are very rewarding as you get to listen to incredible founders working on innovative solutions. The fellow mentors and the partners community has consistently improved in quality to select the best startups and to mentor them. "
“My best advice for the startups would be to stay connected with the SBC family. There's a whole network you can use of mentors, coaches, people with a lot of knowledge”
"it’s been an amazing experience, both professionally and in terms of personal growth. It’s truly a win-win situation - I get to interact with the most innovative, creative and open-minded entrepreneurs and learn from them about various business niches, sociological phenomena and breakthrough technologies. I’m truly grateful to the coolest SBC team for this opportunity."
“I started as a mentor in December 2017, and it's been a really invigorating experience. I was asked recently 'What do I get out of it?'. Quietly, I think I got more out of it than the entrepreneurs. To be able to kind of reflect on that and then to help guide some of these startups has been so rewarding.”
“Mentorship allows me to stay in the loop of what’s happening in the world of startups and what new ideas people are coming up with. It helps me educate myself, both in industries i’m familiar with, as well as new ones where I'm not too familiar.”
"Working with startups and watching them grow and thrive has been an amazing delight for me as a mentor. One key takeaway from my experience is the importance of having a strong support system in place. Through my mentorship, I've seen firsthand how the support, advice, and comments given may help businesses overcome obstacles and achieve their goals.”
“I admire Startupbootcamp for the unbridled energy to support startups in their mission to make the world better, more sustainable, smarter, inclusive, diverse, and lots more innovative. I am happy that I can contribute to the startups as a mentor. The dialog between the organization, the startups and the ecosystem around it is inspiring and also brings me to a higher level in my daily work”
“It’s extremely rewarding to help founders achieve their startup dreams while helping shape the next wave of innovation.”
"Over that time I have come to understand the workings of SBC and in my mind there is no doubt that it remains at the pinnacle of the startup industry. My fellow Mentors are amongst the world’s most respected individuals in their fields and I feel proud to lend my support in ensuring that the startups that pass our way are given the best opportunities to learn."
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