EdTech Executive Search
MENTOR COLLECTIVE
INVESTORS | ECMC Group · Human Capital Development · Resolve Growth Partners · ECMC Group - Education Impact Fund · 10X Venture Partners · 10XImpact · 186 Ventures · EduLab Capital Partners · Emerge · JHH VC · Lumina Impact Ventures · Strada Education Foundation · Lumina Foundation · Rethink Capital Partners · Learn Capital · NXT Ventures · Techstars · TiE-Boston · IU Ventures
Students do not drop out because the coursework is too hard. They drop out because nobody noticed they were struggling.
Mentor Collective matches students with mentors at scale, for universities trying to improve retention and for employers building career readiness. Founded in 2013, based in Boston.
the engagement
Mentor Collective came to 33eleven Partners directly in 2026, through Jit Sinha, for a Chief Technology Officer search.
PLACEMENT
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Matching is the product. Mentor Collective's value rests on pairing the right student with the right mentor across tens of thousands of relationships, then keeping both engaged. The CTO owns the system that decides.
123 days. 151 executives evaluated, 7 submitted.
PARTNERSHIP INSIGHTS
In education technology, the buyer and the beneficiary are never the same person.
A university buys retention. A student experiences a mentor. An employer buys career readiness. A new graduate experiences someone who returns their messages.
Technology leaders who have only built for a single user get this wrong in a specific way: they optimise the experience of whoever is paying. The CTO search here screened for people who understood that the product only works if the person who did not choose it wants to keep using it.
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