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 the people who run programs at accelerators, incubators, technical assistance providers, Women's Business Centers, community organizations, and chambers. Whether you already run a manual mentorship program or your leadership keeps asking you to start one, or the whole thing has been a strategic priority for a year with nobody free to build it.
Get in touch
Tell us a little about your programs and we will come back to you with what this looks like for a cohort like yours.
We reply within one business day, usually with a couple of times for a short call.
Sound familiar?
They graduate energized, and then they go quiet
Structured support ends the week the cohort does. Staff can't follow up with everyone individually, and each new cohort makes the alumni list longer. The founders who needed the most help are the ones you stop hearing from.
Matching happens by hand, tracking happens on a spreadsheet
Finding a mentor with the right industry, stage, or language means going through your own network one person at a time. It works, and it does not scale. When the staff member who held it all leaves, so does everything they knew.
No team covers every industry, and no team can be everywhere
Your entrepreneurs need advice in food and beverage, retail, tech, finance, legal, and they are spread across counties or states. In-person advisory support is expensive to sustain and a generalist can only go so deep.
How it works
Step 1
Plug in
We build the mentorship layer around the programs you already run: your cohorts, your intake, your branding. Entrepreneurs experience your program, not a vendor's. One accelerator went from no mentorship infrastructure at all to a running program in a six-month pilot.
Step 2
Match
Your entrepreneurs are matched with experienced business mentors from 120+ countries, searchable by industry, expertise, region, gender and language, with smart-match recommendations. Our platform surfaces the highest-value mentors for your programs, and our team unsticks matches that stall.
Step 3
Report
30+ engagement and outcome metrics per cohort, split by program or by cohort. Revenue growth, jobs, leadership, confidence. The things your funder asks about at renewal, in a form you can hand over.
You don't need another tool. You need someone to run the program.
Most of what gets pitched to program teams is software. You still recruit the mentors, vet them, make the matches, chase the sessions, and build the reporting. That is a job, and it lands on somebody who already has one.
We bring the mentor community, run the matching, support the program, and produce the reporting. Your team keeps the part that was always yours, which is the relationship with the entrepreneur.
And if you already run mentorship, this extends it. Your advisors stay, your relationships stay, and where your roster doesn't reach, ours does.
"Leadership says mentorship matters. Nobody has time to build it."
This is the most common version of this conversation. In a survey of 42 organizations, the top blocker for teams planning to launch mentorship inside a year was staff capacity, not budget. Several had a real budget range and no one free to run the program.
There is nothing to build here. The program, the mentors, the matching, and the reporting arrive assembled.
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
Built from nothing in six months
A semi-governmental accelerator ran a mentorship pilot across three countries with no pre-existing mentorship infrastructure. 71 entrepreneurs, 77 mentors from 15 countries. Every entrepreneur with a complete profile was matched, at twice the regional mentorship rate, and more than half rated the program 10 out of 10.
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, for the part after the 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.
Program teams keep telling us the same thing. The cohort works. Demo day works. Then the calendar empties, and the founder who needed a sounding board in month four does not have one. 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
Works alongside your CRM and your existing tools rather than replacing them
A dashboard showing who is connecting and whether relationships are actually live
30+ engagement and outcome metrics per cohort, reportable by program or by cohort
No new headcount on your side
One point of contact on your team, and a named Micromentor team on ours
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 extends it rather than replacing it. Your advisors stay, your relationships stay, and the platform takes the coordination and the reporting off your team. Where your roster doesn't reach, ours does.
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That is a normal starting point. One accelerator had no mentorship infrastructure at all and ran a full pilot across three countries in six months, with us building and running it. You are not being handed a blank platform.
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That is the most common thing we hear, ahead of budget. It is also the point: the mentors, the matching, the program support, and the reporting sit with us.
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Somebody notices and fixes it. A bad match does more damage than no match, which is why program support is part of this and not an add-on: we can see which relationships have gone quiet and we go and unstick them.
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30+ engagement and outcome metrics per cohort, by program or by cohort. Activity plus outcomes: revenue growth, jobs created, leadership and confidence. Across our own 2025 reporting, 46% of mentored entrepreneurs hired at least one new person. If it helps, we will sit with your development team and shape the report around the language your funder uses.
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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, and the report your funder asks you for. 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.