Mentors

Founders in StartX’s community gain access to world-class mentors who are dedicated to helping them grow their companies and providing long-term guidance on vision and strategy. Their backgrounds range from serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to professors and lecturers from the Computer Science department and d.school.

Mentorship is available by referral/invite only. Before allowing mentors into the community, we vet them to ensure they have a proven track record of delivering phenomenal mentorship. StartX reviews mentor applications in 3 monthly cycles. As a non-profit, we're able to pick from the best–mentors know that all our incentives are aligned to help the founders succeed. Once paired with a company, mentors are committed to meeting with their companies in person at least biweekly and also to field questions via email or phone calls.

Within the community we have Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs). These are Stanford alumni founders who work on their own startups out of our shared office space and have already had successful exits, funding rounds, and product releases with their previous startups. EIRs are there to mentor and support all founders in the program.This is an invite only program.

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• "I've mentored several terrific StartX companies over the past year. StartX has some amazing and truly dedicated staff members. Many, many times the StartX team is working side by side with their startups at 9pm or later. It's a great program which I definitely recommend."

• "StartX is from Stanford entrepreneurs and for Stanford entrepreneurs. I’ve been impressed with the quality of founders going through the program, the progress they make and the support they receive from staff and other volunteers. With its educational mission, the StartX experience is nothing a Stanford class or a commercial incubator could match."

• "StartX is a great place for all levels of entrepreneurs. I've been involved with six startups at all levels including multiple times as a CEO and as a founder and can say that having the community and mentorship that StartX provides is beneficial for anyone, regardless of how much experience a founder has."

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  Mike Cassidy Serial Entrepreneur Xfire, Direct Hit, etc.,
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  Konstantin Guericke Co-Founder LinkedIn
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  Milt McColl Founder Gauss Surgical

Mentors

George Zachary Partner Charles River Ventures	John Lilly Partner Greylock Partners	Mike Cassidy Serial Entrepreneur Xfire, Direct Hit, etc.,	Matt Cohler Co-Founder Facebook
Vinod Khosla Co-Founder Sun Microsystems	Sue Johnston VP Operations Oracle	Asheem Chandna Partner Greylock Partners	Konstantin Guericke Co-Founder LinkedIn
Howard Hartenbaum Partner August Capital	Christine Herron Director Intel Capital	Naval Ravikant Founder, Angel Angel List	David Lee Managing Partner SV Angel
Chris Michel Serial Founder and Investor Affinity Labs/Military.com	Chris Fralic Managing Partner First Round Capital	Matthew S. Bartus Partner Cooley LLP	Othman Laraki Vice President of Growth & International Twitter
Supreet Oberoi Big Data Technical Evangelist American Express	Adam Rodnitzky CMO, Co-Founder ReTel Technologies	Dave Hodson Serial Entrepreneur MessageCast	Rebecca Lynn Partner Morgenthaler Ventures
Trent Herren VP of Revenue for Applications and Commerce Group AOL	Michael Drejer CEO ProPeople	Bruce Schechter Angel Band of Angels	Elliot Loh Entrepreneur Advisor
Ariel Poler Angel Investor	Michael Wolfe Co-founder Vontu	Sam Schillace SVP Engineering Box	Manu Kumar Chief Firestarter K9 Ventures
Brian Helmick Founder Algentis	Burke Robinson Consulting Professor Stanford University	Claudia Carpenter co-founder Restartle	Clint Korver Co-President Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs
Gary Kremen Founder Match.com	Scott Iyama Attorney at Law Suttcliffe LLP	David Wu Partner Maveron Ventures	Antonio Espinosa Managing Partner JacksonBay Group
Greg Gretsch Managing Director Sigma Partners	Stewart Alsop Partner Alsop Louie Partners	Jeff Clavier Founder and Managing Partner SoftechVC	John Malloy General Partner BlueRun Ventures
Mary Etta Eaton Public Speaking Instructor Stanford University	Mauria Finley Founder, CEO Citrus Lane	Jonathan Golden Product Airbnb	Richard Ling General Partner Rembrandt Ventures
Jason Shellen Founder Brizzly	Jagjot Singh Managing Partner Five Rivers Group	Christine Venditti Partner The Cheyenne Group	Chuck Eesley Assistant Professor MS&E, Stanford
Dan Woods Business Development Palantir	Sol Lipman Mobile Evangelist AOL	George Aspland Co-Founder and CEO ReTel Technologies	Spencer Johnson Product Field Operations Box Top Solutions
Ryan Junee CEO and Co-Founder Inporia	Owen Tripp CEO Reputation.com	Ben Wang Founder Svaya Technologies	Chris Yeh VP Marketing PBworks
Spencer D. Jackson Attorney at Law Orrick, Herrington & Suttcliffe LLP	Jatinder Singh VP of Research Deutsche Telekom Inc.	Robert Siegel General Partner X/Seed Capital Management	Kevin Moynihan Managing Director Solace Systems
Freddy Mangum Managing Partner Cleantech Circle LLC	Jon Gillespie-Brown Founder Digital Ventures	Jeff Depew Founder Imara Corporation	Raju Iyer Chief Financial Officer Regional Medical Center of San Jose
Bill Kuhlman Vice President of Business Development BIA Separations	Saar Gur Partner Charles River Ventures	Kent Goldman Principal First Round Capital	Ash Patel Co-Founder Morado
Tom Kippola Managing Director The Chasm Group	Ari Chaney Executive Director for Technology Translation Stanford BioDesign Program	Chris McCann Founder [Startup Digest]	Dan Ahn Managing Director Voyager Capital
Sumit Agarwal Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management Shape Security	Ted Hollifield Co-Head Venture and M&A Practice Alston & Bird LLP	Jason Putorti Founder Votizen	Don Dodge Developer Advocate Google
Jonathan Baer Managing Partner FDI Institute/Principal Threshold Ventures	Jeff Tannenbaum Investor BlueRun Ventures	Adam Smith Partner AOL Ventures	Amir Belson Founder Neoguide
Katherine Barr Partner Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV)	Mark Blumenkranz Professor and Chairman Department of Ophtalmology Stanford University	Renata Quintini Partner Felicis Ventures	Humphrey Polanen Senior Partner punchlime
Ali Partovi Advisor Dropbox	Pejman Nozad General Partner Amidzad	Peter Muller President Interform	Tim Chang Managing Director Mayfield Fund
Andrew Chung Partner Khosla Ventures	Susan Lucas-Conwell CEO Great Place to Work Institute	Peter Danzig Co-founder Virtuata	Chris Farmer Partner General Catalyst
Skip Fleshman Partner Asset Management Ventures	Sean Flynn Partner Shasta Ventures	Amy Lockwood Deputy Director Center for Global Health at Stanford University	Elad Gil Strategy Advisor Twitter
Gilman Louie Partner Alsop Louie Partners	Jay Borenstein Department of CS Stanford University	Brad Garlinghouse CEO YouSendIt	David Hornik General Partner August Capital
Karl Jacob Founder, CEO Coveroo	Miriam Rivera Board of Trustees Stanford University	Don Wood Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurvetson	Dinesh Katiyar Partner Accel Partners
Brian Hamel CEO and Founder Nuvolex	Shannon McClenaghan CEO Native Union USA	Frédéric Kerrest Co-Founder & COO Okta, Inc.	Raymond Stern Cofounder and Managing Director ClearPath Partners
Mike Hurst CEO Exactuals LLC	Jenny Lefcourt Seed-stage Investor Freestyle Capital	Cary Rosenzweig Founder and Managing Director Reflect Partners	Arthur Chait Founder EoPlex Inc.
Jennifer Gill Roberts Founder Grit Labs	Fadi Karam General Manager & VP Marketing Nestle