SEED SPOT is currently looking for volunteer mentors for our Mentors Directory for our Mental & Behavioral Health Accelerator launching in January 2025! We ask that our mentors be willing to connect with 1-3 ventures throughout the 8-week program for 30 minutes around your topic of expertise or experiences.

SEED SPOT mentors share their experience and insights to inspire, guide, and witness the extraordinary unfold.

Turn your professional experience into a powerful tool by joining the SEED SPOT Mentor Network; foster confidence, develop leadership skills, and add perspective to budding businesses! Mentors like you provide promising new businesses with the connections to networks, funding, and informed decision-making than they couldn't have achieved on their own.

As a volunteer mentor with SEED SPOT, you'll help break down entrepreneurial barriers, promote diversity and inclusion, and provide essential market knowledge to today's innovators... just by being YOU!

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Benefits of Being a Mentor

• Build your network: form genuine connections with likeminded, experienced leaders who share your values.
• Make an impact: help address a social cause you care about alongside impactful entrepreneurs.
• See the future: surround yourself with energetic creatives and visionary thinkers who are building new solutions.
• Lean new skills: mentoring is a two-way street: you'll learn from your mentees as you share your experiences.
• Invest in others: witness the growth of your mentees and know you've played an important role in their success.
• Have a blast! Our network says their favorite thing about mentoring is the FUN they have along the way!

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Mentor Criteria

• Experienced:

Most of our mentors have 10+ years of experience in one of the following:

- Industry expertise

- Entrepreneurial experience

- Leadership and management

- Technical expertise

- Marketing and sales

- Finance and investment

- Social impact

- Innovation and technology

- Global business

- HR and team building

• Committed:

SEED SPOT Mentors are volunteers who commit 1-5 hours per month for 12 months. Most mentorship occurs online with occasional in-person opportunities in select cities.

Monthly engagement might include:

- Pitch coaching events

- Speed mentoring events

- 1:1 weekly mentorship with one mentee over 6-8 weeks

- Ad hoc 1:1 meetings to address specific entrepreneur questions

• Inclusive:

SEED SPOT welcomes entrepreneurs navigating the earliest stages of development into a safe, judgement-free environment of support.

Mentors fiercely share our belief that entrepreneurship should be accessible to everyone with a dream—regardless of identity, experience, or background—and strive to meet each mentee where they're at with the help they need.

• Optimistic:

Our mentors are relentlessly optimistic that there's a path through every problem. They have a knack for innovative problem-solving and don't shy away from big challenges.

SEED SPOT Mentors ask great questions, challenge assumptions, celebrate new learnings, and give really great high-fives. Their mentees know how much they believe in them!

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The Network

When you join the SEED SPOT Mentor Network, you become a member of an exceptional community of generous, likeminded business leaders who share your values of impact and entrepreneurship. Welcome to a diverse network that prioritizes collaborative learning, networking, and personal and professional growth.