Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring Program

In keeping with StartOut’s commitment to create wealth and opportunity in the LGBT community by supporting entrepreneurs, we’re thrilled to offer the first-ever Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring Program.

About The Program

StartOut’s Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring Program pairs new lesbian entrepreneurs with seasoned entrepreneurs, investors and senior level executives; in order to provide advice, resources and knowledge to help grow young businesses.

Why Mentoring?

In speaking with lesbian entrepreneurs, it became clear that mentoring was high on the list of needs, and a simple way to provide immediate value to lesbians in the StartOut community.

If conventional wisdom dictates that startup success yields experience, money and connections; and it follows logically that experience, money and connections gets you a seat at the Tables of Influence (boards, VCs, etc.), then the first step is to do whatever we can to help women in startups be more successful, faster.

To that end, StartOut wants to do their part and help lesbian entrepreneurs by offering one on one mentorship, helping pave the way for new businesses to grow and achieve success.

Get Involved

Be a Mentor

We’re always looking for mentors help new lesbian entrepreneurs. We’re looking for investors, senior level executives and seasoned entrepreneurs from any industry. Whether you’re well into your success or have only been doing it for a short time, you have valuable knowledge and experience that ‘newbies’ can benefit from. If you would like to learn more about being a mentor, please click here to submit your information.

Be Paired With A Mentor

We launched our pilot program in 2012 and will be launching our first national program in 2013. If you’d like to apply for the next class of mentors or entrepreneurs, please fill out the form below.
We’re looking to build an advisory committee to help grow the program. If you’re interested please email info@startout.org.