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Santa Cruz Accelerates
Mentor Registration Form


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Thank you for your interest in becoming a Santa Cruz Works Accelerates Program mentor! 

Mentors are high-value sounding boards with deep industry expertise. Mentors provide invaluable guidance on refining business models, making key connections, and navigating startup challenges.  Active participation and enthusiastic support are essential for fostering the success of our startups. You would be able to meet as your schedule permits and can opt out of being contacted or have your information removed at any time.  

Requirements
  • Provide a minimum of 4 hours of free consultation per startup, to startups of your choice. Mentor businesses may enter into service agreements with a startup after the initial 4 hours with the purpose of providing and extending professional services that will benefit the success of the startup. Please notify us and the startup once you have surpassed 4 hours.
  • Mentors must have extensive knowledge ranging from IP, legal, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, regulatory, operations, commercialization, R&D, etc.
  • Vertical industry expertise is relevant e.g., finance, healthcare, manufacturing, environment, biotech, energy, etc.
Benefits
  • Early access to promising ventures
  • Opportunity to build relationships with founders
  • Pipeline for future business opportunities
  • Mentors will be listed in our accelerator platform for business plan review, direct connections and scheduling with founders
  • Make a real impact. Mentoring allows you to directly contribute to the success of a budding entrepreneur and startup
  • Tax write-off for a 501c6 business operations expense (check with your CPA)
Investment              *fee waived if there is no intention by Mentor to seek employment or financial gain
Preferred contact method*
Skills*
If you have skills or expertise in areas that are not listed above, please share them here. The more details, the better! Some examples include: revenue & business models, customer discovery, G2M, network connections, pitching, etc.
What cities do you live in and work in?
Past your Linkedin url here. If you don't have a Linkedin, provide a bio below.
Share your bio or anything you wish for us and the cohort to know! I.e. I am a veteran and passionate about sustainability and decades of experience in app dev. I am open to providing each founder with X resource...
Please share what company you currently work at (or write retired if you are retired)
All information exchanged and provided between parties shall remain strictly confidential. This includes anything written, verbal, visual or inferred. Confidentiality remains in place even after the conclusion of the program or mentor/mentee relationship. Santa Cruz Works (SCW) shall have no liability for any disclosure of confidential information. I understand that my contact information will be shared only with founders from the Santa Cruz Accelerates program.