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Mentor Hours
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.
Apply to join our ALPHA startup programme in 2025.
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What is Mentor Hours?
Mentor Hours is a series of pre-scheduled, 45-minute meetings between our high-level attendees and startups.
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.
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.
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![Elliott Denham of Dtec Ventures at Mentor Hours during day one of Web Summit 2022](https://qatar.websummit.com/wp-media/2023/07/52472731074_19bf32c5b3_k.jpg)
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Engage
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Build
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Grow
Raising capital or just need financial guidance? Quiz our attending investors and top-level fund managers on the dos and don’ts of financial management, or ask your burning questions about negotiating investment or applying for a business loan.
Meet some of our 2024 mentors
![Josh Rodger](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/3192ead11a7f4d8a2507863f1d01795970ec250b.jpeg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Aspa Lekka](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/ca38c4c1fb1be5db2f370ae0110d0cb75cb2bdd9.png?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Michael ByungSun Hwang](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/0c6f44811b03ad4f5e3c8d57b44e9a942fae897f.jpeg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Sabina Babayeva](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/c484701b70b255bbe613da841aa1e2026662d66b.jpeg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Ricky Tejapaibul](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/4552354ceefcd5b8859c0fcd9d85a48959554df0.jpeg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Poonam Balan](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/9ec3a764dd69d39336bf9ef19e47f78b4df202af.jpg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Rabea Ataya](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/86979884f109daf1c61cf326ae18d7256142bc60.jpg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Brenda Darden Wilkerson](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/c94a328d3020e21859446d63012e1cb867b0ddba.png?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Phillip Sanders](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/0d18cfe846d62fe54ba64c2b973e74c4e4b2627e.png?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Sharifa AlBarami](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/e0d016b3a5baab0511491e237578307bb672b20f.jpeg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Mikayel Vardanyan](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/7fb1247e700c17e2e17d5b7b1a2060a68706efcb.png?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Christine Vincent](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/0cedfbdc359a420536a9123da54d13df93947482.jpg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Ramzi Farah](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/1e36479e950c55ac77b62fddc5f3df14aa6eaf14.png?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Tarek Seif El Nasr](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/f77df755bf0ae5eee63f07eeedc7954b49f54dcf.png?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Ilkay Demirdag](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/2e4e1085fc664349623af560ce40b41f8c54c509.jpg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Mohammad Al Eskandarani](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/528bdfde2e16fc24ba88584933985dc0c060bb43.jpg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Noha Shaker](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/91ab2366fa5a154361d743627ffef0d46a8ad423.jpeg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)
![Khalid Aboujassoum](https://web-summit-avenger.imgix.net/production/avatars/original/381c632464662f6f5a2cb0956000bded23e744e1.jpg?ixlib=rb-3.4.0&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&w=300&h=300)