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title: Our Story | About Mentor Collective
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# About Mentor Collective
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**Mentor Collective** is the premier Mentorship Operating System, helping organizations embed mentorship ecosystems that align with their unique goals and data. Our proven approach drives learner and employee success, improves retention, and strengthens talent pipelines while transforming the journey from education to meaningful employment.
Backed by the most extensive dataset on mentorship outcomes, we deliver data-informed insights that foster authentic human connections at scale. With over a decade of results and more than 500,000 mentorships across 200 partners, Mentor Collective empowers institutions and employers to build belonging, confidence, and opportunity while creating pathways to success for every person.
## Our Investors
[Resolve Growth Partners](https://www.resolvegrowth.com/) is a venture capital and growth equity firm focused on investing in B2B software and technology-enabled companies. Resolve enables passionate, committed entrepreneurs to accelerate growth. Resolve provides expertise and repeatable best practices across talent management, go-to-market and operations.
[Lumina Foundation](https://www.luminafoundation.org/) is an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. Lumina Impact Ventures (LIV), the impact investment arm of Lumina Foundation, focuses on investing in the post-high school education and credentialing system nationwide.
Click each logo on the right to learn more about our group of investors dedicated to making life-changing relationships a feature of every student’s college experience.
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- [Sense of Belonging](https://www.mentorcollective.org/solutions/sense-of-belonging)
- [Enrollment](https://www.mentorcollective.org/solutions/enrollment)
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- [Closing Opportunity Gaps](https://www.mentorcollective.org/solutions/closing-equity-gaps)
- [Student Insights](https://www.mentorcollective.org/solutions/student-insights)
- [Career Readiness](https://www.mentorcollective.org/solutions/career-readiness)
- ### **Who We Serve**
- [Four-Year Institutions](https://www.mentorcollective.org/who-we-serve/four-year-institutions)
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- [Graduate Students](https://www.mentorcollective.org/who-we-serve/graduate-students)
- [Online Students](https://www.mentorcollective.org/who-we-serve/online-students)
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