Give your borrowers business mentorship they actually use, without adding staff.
Micromentor is the mentorship platform global development banks run alongside their own lending. Mentors from 120+ countries, program support handled by us, and 30+ engagement and outcome metrics per cohort for your funder reporting.
Built for CDFIs and loan funds of every shape. The ones whose technical assistance gets borrowers loan-ready and stops there. The ones who lend without a coaching arm at all. And the ones already running a volunteer mentor network by hand. Including key initiatives like Women's Business Centers, hosted inside your organization.
Get in touch
Tell us a little about your lending and your borrowers, and we will come back to you with what this looks like for a portfolio like yours.
We reply within one business day, usually with a couple of times for a short call.
Sound familiar?
Mentor coordination is somebody's evening job
Matching happens by hand, tracking happens by email, and all of it sits on top of a full workload. When that person moves on, the relationships and the institutional knowledge go with them.
After the loan is given, the only engagement signal is whether the payment cleared
Whether your technical assistance stops at loan readiness or you never had a coaching arm, the relationship narrows to payments, statements, and compliance. Nobody owns the business questions.
You refer them out, and never learn what happened
When the question isn't about lending or cash flow it goes to another organization. There is rarely a coordinated hand-off, and almost never a record of whether the borrower actually got help.
How it works
Step 1
Plug in
We build the mentorship layer around the lending you already do: your borrower cohorts, your intake, your branding. It sits on top of your loan management system and your CRM, and it runs as a white-label microsite in your own language, so this bends to your program rather than the other way round.
Step 2
Match
Borrowers are matched with experienced business mentors from 120+ countries, searchable by industry, expertise, region, gender and language. Our platform surfaces the highest-value mentors for your distinct lending markets, and our team unsticks matches that stall.
Step 3
Report
30+ engagement and outcome metrics per cohort, split by program or by cohort. Your reporting goes from anecdotal to documented, which is the part your funder cares about.
Mentorship as portfolio strategy, not a program add-on
Two things happen when structured mentorship sits on top of your lending. Your borrowers get a service most lenders can't offer, which is a reason to stay. And you get visibility into how a business is actually doing between payment dates.
A development bank layered structured mentorship alongside its own financing across four countries, tracked the outcomes, and did it without adding program staff.
Other platforms will sell you the software and leave you to find, vet, and keep the mentors. That's not a small task on top of a lending operation. We bring the community and run the program.
The funding question, answered before you're asked
Any new line has to survive a look from finance, and technical assistance budgets are tight right now. The useful thing to know early is that this rarely competes with general operating dollars.
It is usually a grant-funded purchase. CDFI Fund Technical Assistance awards allow technology purchases as a direct cost, and SBA Microloan intermediaries have a parallel TA allocation. Bring your award officer to the demo if it helps.
Check your specific award terms. We will provide whatever documentation your finance team needs.
The numbers behind it
Mentored entrepreneurs are twice as likely to grow revenue than non-mentored
2x
in additional business revenue for every $1 invested in Micromentor
$4.01
46%
of mentored entrepreneurs hired at least one new person
2x
more likely to survive past five years, per the SBA
Lending and mentoring in the same program
A development bank ran Micromentor alongside its own lending to women-led SMEs across four countries. 4,000+ entrepreneurs, 1,400+ mentors, white-label in the local language, and no added program staff. Renewed at $240K on the strength of the outcome documentation.
Development finance institution
A US business that came back from a 45% loss
Natalie Johnson runs a 13-person culture firm in Florida. When the 2024 DEI mandates landed, clients were told they could not spend on her work and the company lost 40 to 45% of its business within weeks. Her mentor had already built, financed and sold companies, and worked through the loan-or-investor decision and a full rebuild with her. The firm is profitable again and the team stayed intact.
ViDL Work · Florida, USA
ROI figures from our 2025 impact reporting, with the University of Cambridge as research partner.
Eighteen years of mentorship, backing your loan program
Micromentor launched with a simple bet: entrepreneurs do better with a mentor in their corner. In 2025 alone the platform served 15,238 entrepreneurs across 185 countries, with mentors volunteering from 120+ countries.
Lenders keep telling us the same thing: capital gets a business started, but the questions that decide whether it survives come later. That is the stretch we cover.
Mentors from 120+ countries, searchable by industry, expertise, region, gender and language, with smart-match recommendations
Matching and program support run by us, including unsticking a relationship that stalls
Co-branded or white-label, so borrowers experience your brand and not a vendor's
30+ engagement and outcome metrics per cohort, reportable by program or cohort
A layer on top of your loan management system and CRM, not a replacement for either
No new headcount on your side
One point of contact on your team, and a named Micromentor team on ours
A dashboard showing who is connecting and whether mentorship is actually happening
Questions we hear a lot
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They are experienced entrepreneurs and business professionals, with expertise ranging from finance and operations to marketing, legal, supply chain and digital. They are rated by the entrepreneurs who work with them: a mean value score of 7.6 out of 10, with 77.1% saying their mentor had the right skills and experience and 68.7% acting on their mentor's guidance inside the program. That is a coaching relationship, not networking.
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Then this is an extension of it, not a replacement. Your advisors stay, your relationships stay, and the platform takes the coordination and the reporting. Where your roster doesn't reach, ours does.
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That is the most common thing we hear, ahead of budget. It is also the point: the platform, the matching, the program support, and the reporting sit with us.
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Yes, and not only for first-timers. Natalie Johnson runs a 13-person culture firm in Florida that lost 40 to 45% of its business when the 2024 DEI mandates landed. Her mentor had already built, financed and sold companies, and talked her through the loan-or-investor decision and a rebuild. The firm is profitable again and the team stayed intact. We will send you the write-up.
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We are not going to claim that. What we would say is that structured mentorship after closing is portfolio strategy: earlier visibility into how a business is really doing, and a reason for a borrower to stay with you. Whether it moves repayment in your portfolio is a question your data would have to answer, not ours.
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Usually. CDFI Fund Technical Assistance awards allow technology purchases as a direct cost, and SBA Microloan intermediaries have a parallel allocation. Check your specific award terms and we will give your finance team the documentation.
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No. We sit on top of it. Mentorship happens before and after the loan, never inside underwriting, and we have no interest in your credit workflow.
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Once a contract is signed, our team can stand up your initiative within two to four weeks depending on the scope.
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We offer multiple tiers to fit the level of support your team needs to run its initiative. Most start with a single cohort. Tell us on the call what you have to work with and we will tell you honestly whether it fits. If this is a next-fiscal-year conversation, say so and we will come back then.
Worth a short demo?
Bring one cohort of borrowers and your funder's reporting template. If it isn't a fit, you will know by the end of the call.
Not this fiscal year? Say so on the form and we will come back when your budget cycle opens.