<p>Meet the minds behind the unicorns and get advice from people who’ve done it all before. Mentor Hours connects rising startups with established experts for 45-minute meetings.</p>
<p><strong>Please note applications for 2025 have closed now</strong>. You can still book tickets or apply for our 2026 ALPHA startup programme.</p>


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3 May 2023; 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. Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Web Summit Rio via Sportsfile

<p>Mentor Hours is a series of pre-scheduled, 45-minute meetings between our high-level attendees and startups.</p>
<p>Mentor Hours has four distinct tracks: lead, engage, build and grow. Each track has a specific focus and mentors with relevant expertise to ensure you discuss the issues most important to your startup.</p>
<p>Mentors spend 45 minutes coaching startups in a group session. This mix of backgrounds means the session will be shaped by individual and collective experiences in the startup community.</p>


What is Mentor Hours?

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<div>Master the art of leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship and hiring. Our attending CEOs and managing directors will share their experience on enhancing leadership capabilities while optimizing your team’s personal growth and company strategy.</div>
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Lead

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<div>Learn how to tell your story to the world. Our attending brand experts will share their personal experience of marketing, brand identity, social engagement and public relations. This is your chance to ask questions you can’t ask the media or your customers.</div>
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Engage

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<div>Learn more about product development, software, hardware, big data, UI, UX or front/back-end development. Our attending engineers, data scientists and product designers will share their extensive personal experience on all things tech.</div>
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Build

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<div>Raising capital or just need financial guidance? Quiz our attending investors and top-level fund managers on the dos and don&#8217;ts of financial management, or ask your burning questions about negotiating investment or applying for a business loan.</div>
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Grow

Meet our 2025 mentors

Business Development Director

Clenilson Goncalves

Gerente de Inovação

Denise Pithan

Partner Director - Emerging Giants Startups 

Diogo Garcia

Sócio-diretor 

Lucas Ventura

Cofounder & COO

Wagner Foschini

Senior Director Marketing

Zachary Fox

Marketing Director

Jonathan Melo

CVC and M&A Leader

Mariana Luppi

Open Innovation Leader

Isabella Galvão

Renan Conde

Founder

Rodrigo Terron

CCO & Co-Founder

Juan Fantoni

Partner

Qin En Looi

Co-Founder and General Partner

Trang Nguyen

Chief Revenue Officer

Yash Reddy

Co-founder and President

Bruno Guicardi

VP of Marketing Cloud

Grazi Sbardelotto

Co-founder & CEO

Thais Sterenberg

Sustainability Product Strategy Lead

Luciana Monteiro

Diego Contezini

Ronaldo Cohin

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re planning on going to every Web Summit event from now on. It’s now part of our company’s journey.</span></p>


Simone Ponce

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Web Summit is not just an event; it’s a dynamic ecosystem where ideas flourish, collaborations thrive, and growth opportunities abound.</span></p>


Aaron Cassorla

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These events are much more than simple conferences or networking meetings, they are true catalysts for opportunities.</span></p>


Viktoriia Abed

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every tech specialist who works in international markets should visit this event at least once, because of the unique vibe and variety of opportunities, [as well as the] new acquaintances that always inspire new ideas, steps, and projects.</span></p>


Henrique Ferreira

<p>We have grown in 5 months since the event in every metric in the book. We expanded our product into new frontiers, grew our headcount, were featured in many relevant publications nationally and internationally.</p>


Victor Straatman

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You make so many serendipitous connections. There’s a lot of inspiration at Web Summit. So I was thinking a little bit: ‘What am I going to build?’. I was looking for opportunities and a little inspiration.</span></p>


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