Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Mentor Collective, a US-based platform connecting students to mentors, has received $3m in funding from investors including IU Ventures, the fund management arm of Indiana University. The round was led by Lumina Foundation and also included Strada Education Network, 10x Impact, EduLab Capital Partners and Emerge Education. Mentor Collective was founded in 2013 as Shearwater and raised $600,000 in a seed-1 funding round led by Rethink Education in May 2018, having previously raised approximately $1.27m from undisclosed backers in 2015,…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
