Mentors (1112)
Finding a Mentor
Mentors are important to founders’ success because they can provide different opinions and valuable connections. In many cases, mentors can be the bridge to the investor. Mentors can also gain a lot from mentorship as much as their mentees. Mentoring allows them to stay connected with the newest technologies and to keep in touch with the challenges facing entrepreneurs nowadays and in different fields.
One of the most important challenges facing any entrepreneur is to find the right mentor which nowadays is much more of a challenge.
At FasterCapital, we help any entrepreneur find the right mentor from our network of mentors. All our mentors have very different and diverse backgrounds and some of them work in big incubators like 500startup, Ycombinator, TechStars, etc.
Finding a mentor means that you need to find a person you like, easily interact with, a person who listens carefully to what you have to say and guides you through your tough journey. You can check the list below or you can contact us directly to help you find the right mentor for you.
Feel free to fill in the form below in order for our team to match you with the right mentor(s).
Becoming a Mentor
An effective mentor is someone who has the desire to share their experience and help new entrepreneurs overcome the challenges that they are facing. They are also people with the ability to recognize and encourage entrepreneurs and help them go to the limit of their potential. They are also ready to help entrepreneurs/mentees in the decision-making process by listening, reviewing, assessing, and advising. A mentor can then obtain personal satisfaction because they are making a huge difference in the dream of another person. A mentor can enhance their skills in leadership, interpersonal skills, decision making, and communication. They will increase their professional network by helping entrepreneurs and assessing the different business potentials that they have. Mentors can also get updated about the challenges facing entrepreneurs nowadays and come up with innovative solutions.
FasterCapital is expanding throughout the world and we are looking for more mentors who are passionate about what they do and have the ability to motivate start-ups. For the compensation, we leave it to entrepreneurs and mentors to agree on (money and/or equity). We will only introduce suitable startups to you after getting your approval. Your compensation will be mostly equity and/or cash. So if you find yourself a good candidate as a mentor for this position, please read the process Become a Mentor.
Sanjay Nadkarni
Dr. Sanjay Nadkarni has harvested a seamless blend of academe-industry experience in the convergence space of Data Science, Digital, and the Service Sector, with a particular focus on hospitality and tourism. He is currently the Director of Innovation and Research at the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management in Dubai. He is passionate about leveraging Industry 4.0 and democratizing data science for the benefit of small & micro-businesses. Sanjay has been engaging with the start-up ecosystem through active mentorship, incubation, networking, and the sweat equity route. He brings in expertise fusing industry knowledge and academic rigor to early-stage start-ups to help scale from bootstrapping/pre-seed to Series A. Sanjay's focus is on developing and co-creating value practices that have a tangible impact on industry and society. Further details are available on his LinkedIn profile.
Sanjay Nadkarni
David D'Angelo
Mr. David is an award-winning and experienced startup entrepreneur. After earning his B.A. at Brock University, he founded Trivium Industries, a biodegradable plastic bottle manufacturing company. In 2014, the company was awarded the Ontario Centers of Excellence Entrepreneurship grant, and David was a 2015 Niagara Environmental Entrepreneur of The Year Award Finalist. Currently, he leads the startup BISEP and works as a part-time startup consultant helping companies with business strategy, and raising investment capital.
David D'Angelo
Renae Pung
I hold experience across various industries in the startup and MNC space and have therefore developed skills in Growth Hacking, Sales, Digital Marketing, Analytics, Venture Investing, and Entrepreneurship. I have mentored undergraduates in the field of Design Thinking in the social entrepreneurship space. If you have an unshakable resolve, a burning desire to succeed, and a groundbreaking solution that can shake up the industry, I’m looking forward to working with you and helping you achieve greater heights!
Renae Pung
Nagesh Mekala
Nagesh mentors, advises and helps invest in companies in iGaming, Telecom, FinTech and DigitalMedia for Global Markets. Nagesh holds degrees in CS&IT, Telecom and Marketing Management with 15+ years’ experience in working US UK Europe Africa Asia LATAM MENA. He took the plunge into entrepreneurship and had successful exits with multiple startups and from thereon has been helping startups validate their value-proposition product-market fit and runs strategy consulting business Globally. Nagesh travelled to more than 32 countries with 110 country's analysis to explore the potential opportunities and to encourage the entrepreneurs. He is the bridge between entrepreneurs and opportunities.
Nagesh Mekala
Jini Sebakunzi
Curiosity is in his DNA, and Jini is never afraid to try something new. This is probably why he is passionate about sustainability, entrepreneurship, leadership, and storytelling. Mr. Jini is an experienced sustainable development practitioner, with 15-years of experience in business development at the director level (managed up to 10 people). He is also a mentor to tech and health startups across Africa. He has advised multi-stakeholders in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN, including social entrepreneurs, multinational companies, impact investment funds, foundations, and international NGOs.
Jini Sebakunzi
Feliks Kravets
Dr. Feliks Kravets is a Senior Executive with more than 25 years of operations across the education and technology industries. Leveraging extensive experience from being a Founder & CEO of startups to overseeing operations for large and small organizations, he is a valuable asset for companies working on expansion initiatives, rolling out new products/services, or business innovation. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Argosy University and a Master of Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management. Dr. Kravets is a visiting professor and business lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience teaching in the greater Chicago region.
Feliks Kravets
Mostafa Zaki
Mostafa Zaki is experienced senior and value-adding leadership for many multinational, SMB, start-up companies both at a strategic and operational level, with a strong track record in developing, driving, and managing revenue, business development-improvement, developing new markets, change management, and turn-around. Has over 20 years working for MENA. The main drivers are strategic business planning/consultancy/ growth, target market management, sales efficiency, improve stakeholders, customer and employee satisfaction, customer service, product management, cross-functional business improvements, and culture change.
Mostafa Zaki
Kashyap B J
Having mentored startups across verticals, I am quite well-versed in scaling them up right from scratch. My core expertise is in marketing but can pretty much formulate any business strategy. I ensure that these are aligned with the objectives of the business & also build thought-oriented product messaging. I have understood the challenges involved in startups and can define processes to overcome them.
Kashyap B J
Majed Idelbi
Mr. Majed is a Certified Financial Consultant & Trainer provides Personal and Business level Financial Planning Strategies. Majed has over 15 years of finance and accounting experience. He received his BA in Accounting and MSc in Finance & Financial Information Systems & also a Certified Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA). His joint degrees and experience provide him with the academic grounding and practical insights needed to provide advice in the areas of Personal Financial Planning, Business Financial Management, Business Strategy, Revenue Models, & Translating Business Plans into a Financial Model. He enjoys seeing people succeed & it’s an opportunity to give back to the community.
Majed Idelbi
Obi Umegbolu
Obi is an innovation and growth specialist, renowned for his visionary approach to technology and data analytics.
Obi Umegbolu
Renato Azevedo Sant Anna
Mr. Renato is a Digital Transformation & Insights Consultant, Writer, Instructor, and Speaker on topics related to Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business, and Consumer Behavior on digital channels. Mr. Renato worked in the last years with Mentoring for Startups and Consulting for Brands assisting with the analysis of the business context and processes, situational awareness and competitive landscape, early warning, prospective scenarios, and foresight, helping to shape the strategy, defining tactical actions, identifying blind spots, with the generation of actionable insights and recommendations for decision making in order to find innovative solutions to the business.
Renato Azevedo Sant Anna
Ashkan Alizadeh
Mr. Ashkan Alizadeh is a certified startup mentor who has mentored over 100 startups in Silicon Valley and all around the world. He has been helping entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams and scale their startups from just a mere idea to a real and profitable business. Mr. Ashkan Alizadeh has entrepreneurship and mentorship certifications from U.C. Berkeley and Draper University located in Silicon Valley and also, he successfully raised funding for his own startup. One of the unique skills he has is to create the perfect pitch deck design which is one of the key factors of successfully raising investment. His portfolio consists of highly ranked executives from former Starbucks CFO, restaurant chain owners to startups who raised money in Silicon Valley, and many more.
Ashkan Alizadeh
Nada Helmy
Nada is a co-founder of an educational startup that started in Egypt and expanded to Dubai and Jordan. After working on her own startup, she decided to work for a technology incubator under the Ministry of ICT in Egypt to share some of her entrepreneurial experiences. She's mentored startups in education, e-commerce, recruitment services, and health. She is exposed to hundreds of startups each year and finds potential in the best ones.
Nada Helmy
Karol Czapik
Mr. Karol Czapik has over 12 years of experience in managing projects and programs and a variety of teams. He has long been an active person and mentors for the development of an entrepreneurial society, he was a guide in Krakow of the nationwide Student Forum Business Center Club Foundation, he was the founder and vice-president of the Activus Promptus Foundation, he cooperated with Polska Przedsiębiorcza and Akademickie Kluby Przedsiębiorczości. Currently, he cooperates with the SPIN (Service Process Improvement Network) Association, IPMA Polska and is a co-founder of the Project Managers Breakfast initiative
Karol Czapik
Gonzalo Mena Fuenzalida
I've been working in entrepreneurship for over 10 years and had the opportunity to develop relationships and contacts across the Latin American ecosystem thanks to being a Techstar Facilitator for Startup Weekend. Currently, I'm residing in Puerto Rico working to connect and develop innovation programs in the Caribbean.
Gonzalo Mena Fuenzalida
Eugi Bartolo
Eugi is a digital leader, manager and mentor specialised in helping global organisations (private and PE/VC backed) become more agile, using lean thinking tools and practises to reduce and eliminate waste and increase business value. Executing at board level in CTO, Head of Delivery and Head of Digital roles, Eugi has a demonstrable past in creating new digital propositions, managing globally diverse teams, multi-million-pound budgets, and a proven track record for successful delivery of digital transformations.
Eugi Bartolo
sudam pawar
Mr. Sudam Pawar is an international development specialist, agricultural engineer, over 20 years of extensive development experience working in India, Africa, and South East Asia. by exploiting net-working activity and sharing knowledge with stakeholders he diminishes their fears and illuminates a strategic way forward facilitating the execution of a viable growth strategy. Sudam obtained his B. Tech degree in Agricultural Engineering from MPKV Agricultural University and MBA from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and Ph.D, Doctoral study in progress at Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
sudam pawar
Astrit Dobraj
I have Banking Experience from the year 2000, Over 12 years’ experience in Credit Risk, from 2017 I have been involved in two startups as Non-Bank Financial Institutions, starting form preparing a business strategy, business plan, preparing documents for licensing form Central Bank, and also working as e Executive Management for a period of time till the business is settled. My experience is spread also in multiple banking products and departments.
Astrit Dobraj
David Feldsott
David Feldsott is a business executive & entrepreneur with 12 years of strategy, innovation, finance, and operations experience, ranging from tech startups to Fortune 50 corporations. Outside of entrepreneurship, David has held positions in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy & development, corporate venture capital, corporate finance, and intrapreneurship (building new ventures within corporations).
David Feldsott
Zakaria Jaiathe
Mr. Zakaria Jaiathe, Co-founder and CEO of Xibit in Berlin, Germany. Xibit is a leading mixed reality software company in Europe. Reinventing how humans can interact with machines, using intuitive hand gestures. Zak has a strong background in math, computer science, and building impactful companies. He was previously a technical advisor for the SAP leadership and CTO on AR/VR.