Mentor Hours

Learn how to grow a unicorn. Meet the people behind the world’s most successful companies. Mentor Hours is a series of pre-scheduled, 45 minute-long group meetings between our high-level attendees and startups.

Please note: Mentor Hours are only open to startups exhibiting at Collision. Apply for our 2024 ALPHA startup program and join us next June in Toronto.

Mayra Cimet Dattoli, WE Ventures, and attendees at Mentor Hours during day two of Web Summit Rio 2023 at Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

What is Mentor Hours?

Mentor Hours have four distinct tracks: lead, engage, build and grow. Each track has a specific focus and carefully selected mentors to ensure you discuss the issues most important to your startup.

Mentors spend 45 minutes coaching up to 10 startups in a group setting. This mix of backgrounds means the session will be shaped by individual and collective experiences in the startup community.

Lead

Master the arts of leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship, and hiring. Experienced industry leaders will advise how you can develop your leadership skills while addressing your team’s growth and company strategy.

Engage

How can you thrill the world with your company’s story? Our attending brand experts will share their tips for marketing, brand identity, social engagement, and public relations. This is your chance to hear the feedback you won’t get from your customers.

Build

Learn more about product development. Whether it’s software, hardware, big data, UI and UX or front/back-end development. Our attending engineers, data scientists and product designers will share their personal experience on all things related to product.

Grow

Raising capital or just need some financial guidance? Ask our attending investors and top-level fund managers the questions that aren’t answered during investment negotiations or business loan applications. These are the dos and don’ts of financial management, investment, and effective negotiation.

Meet our 2023 mentors

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