Education · Bangalore
Mentormind
Tutoring systems for university engineering courses.
- Stage
- Seed
- Founded
- Founded 2023
- First invested
- We invested 2023
- Team
- 10 people
- Board
- Board seat
- Total raised
- $3.5M
- Current stage
- Seed
- Team
- 10
- Founded
- 2023
What they build
The product, in plain terms
Mentormind builds tutoring systems for university engineering courses. The company started in Bangalore in 2023. We backed it at pre-seed and have worked with the team through Seed.
- 01
Assessment and instruction built around what a learner can do, not what they clicked.
- 02
Reporting that gives an instructor a reason to open the product on a Monday.
- 03
Institutional contracts underneath the free tier, which is what makes the business durable.
Where it stands
Numbers the team watches
Reported by the company at its most recent board meeting. We publish what founders are comfortable publishing and nothing more.
- Learners served
- 304
- Course completion
- 85%
- Median session
- 4 days
Why we invested
The note from the first meeting
“We met Mentormind in 2023, back when institutions bought on annual cycles and churned quietly. We had been looking for a team in this category for about a year. They were the first ones who talked about the customer more than the technology.”
- Opened a second market within a year of its seed round.
- Reached default-alive economics before raising a priced round.
- Hired its founding engineering team out of the alumni network.
Founders
Who is building it
Both founders were in the room the day we wrote the check, and both still run the company.
Nils Lindqvist
Co-founder and CEO
Spent a decade on the operations side of this industry before rebuilding the software for it.
Rania Karim
Co-founder and CTO
Maintains one of the open source libraries the category is built on.
Timeline
How it has gone
The version we would give another investor, including the years where nothing looked like progress.
- 2023
Founded
Nils Lindqvist and Rania Karim start Mentormind in Bangalore around a single wedge: tutoring systems for university engineering courses.
- 2023
We invested
We wrote the pre-seed check and took a board seat. Sofia Ramos has worked with the team ever since.
- 2024
Paid customers
Contracts replaced pilots, and the company stopped selling a roadmap and started selling a product.
- 2025
Seed round
Raised at $22M, led by an investor we introduced during diligence. We took our full pro rata.
- 2026
Where it stands
10 people, selling in more markets than it started in, still run by the two people who wrote the first version.
Alongside us
Co-investors
We share rounds with people we would want on our own cap table.
- Amplify Partners
- Foundation Capital
- Emergence
- Bessemer
Working here
Open roles
Mentormind is hiring in these areas. Mention us and the note gets to the founders directly.
- Learning design
- Institutional sales
- Data science
Building something next to Mentormind?
We are usually early to a category and happy to be early again. Send us the short version.