Skip to content

Advisory and Mentor Management · Module

A mentor pool you can staff, manage and keep

Most advisor products sit outside your program, so when a cohort ends you lose track of both the founders and the advisors. This one is part of the platform they already work in. You can reuse proven mentors and keep the relationship going after graduation.

meridian.startupscience.io

Spring 2026 Accelerator

Programs › Spring 2026 › Applications

RUNNING

Open applications

Overview

Applications

Evaluations

Cohorts

People

Events

Analytics

Stage: Pre-seed → Seed

Sector: All

Sort: Score

44 in round 2 · 3 reviewers each

SUBMITTED

24

Kestrel Bio

Cell-free diagnostics for rural clinics

Rosa Iglesias

HEALTH

Fjord Analytics

Freight emissions ledger for shippers

Jonas Weber

CLIMATE

Orbit Pay

Payroll rails for cross-border teams

Tunde Bakare

FINTECH

IN REVIEW

11

Atlas Materials

7.8

Low-carbon cement additive

Leila Haddad

CLIMATE

Lumen Learning

8.1

Adaptive tutoring for community colleges

Nadia Osei

EDTECH

SHORTLISTED

6

Meridian Robotics

8.9

Warehouse picking arms, sold per pick

Sarah Chen

ROBOTICS

Halcyon Grid

8.4

Battery dispatch software for utilities

Kemi Adeyemi

ENERGY

INTERVIEW

3

Verano Labs

9.1

Soil sensors that price carbon credits

Diego Marín

AGTECH

Thu 14 Mar · 10:00

Baseline Health

8.6

Chronic-care coordination for clinics

Noah Whitfield

HEALTH

Fri 15 Mar · 14:30

Spring 2026

WEEK 6 OF 12

SC

AO

DM

NO

TH

LH

FOUNDERS

12

ON TRACK

82%

RAISED

$4.18M

meridian.startupscience.io

SC

PR

Sarah Chen ↔ Priya Raman

Workspace · Pricing experiment · 6 sessions

ACTIVE

PR

Priya Raman

Tue 09:12

Before we touch price, I want to see how buyers react to per-pick vs. a flat monthly fee. Can you run five interviews with the warehouses in the pilot?

Sarah Chen

Tue 09:30

On it. Two are already booked for Thursday. Sharing the current price page so you can see what they are reacting to.

pricing_page_v2.pdf

SC

Action item created · Run 5 customer interviews · owner Sarah · due 19 Mar

ON THE RECORD

PR

Priya Raman

Tue 09:34

Perfect. Log what they say in the session notes and we will decide on the experiment together next Tuesday.

Write to Priya…

THE FOUNDER RECORD

Sessions logged

6

Hours delivered

5.5 / 8

Next session

Tue 19 Mar · 10:00

Open action items

2

Visible to Meridian Accelerator. Not to other founders or rival programs.

SUGGESTED ADVISOR

91% MATCH

MB

Marcus Bell

Ex-CFO, Kite Robotics · 2 seed rounds led · Boston

FUNDRAISING

SEED → A

ROBOTICS

HARDWARE

Raised for a per-unit hardware business

Available Tue & Thu mornings, your slots

No conflict with Meridian competitors

Request session

See 2 more

meridian.startupscience.io

Meridian Accelerator

ESO WORKSPACE

Home

Activities

Founders

Programs

Academy

Capital

Marketplace

Advisory

Capital directory

Investors your founders can see, curated by Meridian

Saved lists · 3

Add investor

Investors

Grants

Debt

Community funding

Search 1,240 investors…

STAGE: SEED

SECTOR: ROBOTICS

GEO: NORTH AMERICA

CHECK: $500K–2M

INVESTOR

STAGE

CHECK

FOCUS

LEADS

N

Northwind Ventures

Seed fund · Boston

PRE-SEED · SEED

$500K–1.5M

Robotics, industrial automation

Yes

B

Bluefin Capital

Multi-stage · NYC

SEED · A

$1M–3M

Climate, supply chain

Yes

H

Harbor Angels

Angel group · Boston

PRE-SEED

$50K–250K

Hardware, healthtech

No

S

Solstice Fund

Seed fund · Toronto

SEED

$750K–2M

Energy, grid software

Yes

K

Lakeshore Partners

Corporate VC · Chicago

A · B

$2M–5M

Logistics, robotics

Co-lead

Founders see this directory inside their own Capital tab. Notes stay with your program.

N

Northwind Ventures

Seed fund · Boston

STAGE

Pre-seed · Seed

CHECK

$500K–1.5M

LEADS

Yes

Robotics, industrial automation · 14 portfolio companies

meridian.startupscience.io

Meridian Accelerator

ESO WORKSPACE

Home

Activities

Founders

Programs

Academy

Capital

Marketplace

Advisory

Marketplace

Curated for Meridian founders · 9 offers · $186K delivered this cohort

Manage directory

Add offer

Offers

Collections

Metrics

STAGE: ANY

TYPE: ALL

REGION: NORTH AMERICA

SORT: MOST REDEEMED

Showing 6 of 9

L

Ledgerly

Bookkeeping

PUBLIC

Save up to $10,000

S

Stackform

Cloud credits

PUBLIC

$25,000 credits

B

Brightpath Legal

Legal

PRIVATE

Save up to $6,500

C

Cloudmint

Payments

PUBLIC

Waive $7,500 fees

N

Northbeam Studio

Brand & design

SPONSORED

Save up to $12,000

K

Kestrel People

Hiring & HR

PUBLIC

Save up to $4,800

L

Ledgerly

Bookkeeping & tax · 4.8 ★ (61)

MERIDIAN PERK

12 months of bookkeeping and your first tax filing, free for cohort founders. Then 40% off.

PRE-SEED → SERIES A · 14 CLAIMS LEFT

Save up to $10,000

01 · Start to finish

A transparency layer over advisory work: the program sees what was delivered, and the advisor and founder keep a history of every session.

Matches: each pairing scored on stage, sector and the gaps the founder named

Workspaces: a private space for every advisor and founder pairing

Sessions: logged with what was agreed and what’s due before the next one

Matching

Each match comes with a score and the reasons behind it.

AO

Ada Okafor

Founder · Lumen Health

91%
fit

YS

Yara Sadiq

Advisor · Go-to-market

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · Meridian workspace

REC

Session logged

→ Ada’s founder record

On Ada’s recordYara Sadiq · fit 91

Chapter 1: Matching

Matched on stage, sector and named gaps

Each match comes with a score and the reasons behind it.

AO

Ada Okafor

Founder · Lumen Health

91%
fit

YS

Yara Sadiq

Advisor · Go-to-market

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · Meridian workspace

REC

Session logged

→ Ada’s founder record

On Ada’s record: Yara Sadiq, fit 91

Chapter 2: Shared workspaces

One workspace per pairing

Agenda, files and actions sit in one thread that the program can see and rivals can’t.

Founder viewFounder view
Advisor viewAdvisor view

AO

YS

Ada Okafor × Yara Sadiq

Pricing · 6 sessions · since March

SHARED NOTES

Next step · test the $199 tier with 5 founders

ADVISOR-ONLY NOTES

Watch the churn assumption. Suggest a cohort-only price test before the board update.

On Ada’s record: workspace opened

Chapter 3: Sessions

Sessions save to the founder record

Notes, recording and actions are saved when the call ends.

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · video · Ada Okafor × Yara Sadiq

REC

SESSION NOTES

Agreed: test the $199 tier with five founders before the board update.

PRICING

ACTION · ADA

45 MIN

Saved to Ada’s record

· notes, duration, next step

On Ada’s record: session, 45 min

Chapter 4: Activities and hours

Hours delivered vs committed

Hours add up per advisor and per cohort from logged sessions.

Ada Okafor · this week

3

of 5 done

Send updated deck to Yara

Done

Book customer calls · 5

Done

Draft the $199 tier test

Done

Update the KPI sheet

Due Fri

Confirm demo-day slot

Due Mon

On Ada’s record: 14 h this cohort

Chapter 5: Reports

Advisory reports built from logged sessions

Reports show sessions, hours and outcomes per advisor, ready for the board.

Advisory · Spring

AugSep

SESSIONS

148

HOURS

111

FOUNDERS

12

YS

Yara Sadiq

20

h

PR

Priya Raman

16

h

MB

Marcus Bell

12

h

On Ada’s record: advisor report

Chapter 6: History

History after the cohort ends

If the advisor changes or the program ends, the history stays with the founder.

Ada Okafor · founder record

SINCE 2024

Applied · Spring 2024

2024 · logged automatically

PROGRAM

Accepted · cohort 7

2024 · logged automatically

PROGRAM

Pricing session with Yara

2025 · logged automatically

ADVISORY

Northwind intro · seed

Today · 09:40

CAPITAL

On Ada’s record: 3 cohorts of history

Chapter 1: Matching

Matched on stage, sector and named gaps

Each match comes with a score and the reasons behind it.

AO

Ada Okafor

Founder · Lumen Health

91%
fit

YS

Yara Sadiq

Advisor · Go-to-market

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · Meridian workspace

REC

Session logged

→ Ada’s founder record

On Ada’s record: Yara Sadiq, fit 91

Chapter 2: Shared workspaces

One workspace per pairing

Agenda, files and actions sit in one thread that the program can see and rivals can’t.

Founder viewFounder view
Advisor viewAdvisor view

AO

YS

Ada Okafor × Yara Sadiq

Pricing · 6 sessions · since March

SHARED NOTES

Next step · test the $199 tier with 5 founders

ADVISOR-ONLY NOTES

Watch the churn assumption. Suggest a cohort-only price test before the board update.

On Ada’s record: workspace opened

Chapter 3: Sessions

Sessions save to the founder record

Notes, recording and actions are saved when the call ends.

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · video · Ada Okafor × Yara Sadiq

REC

SESSION NOTES

Agreed: test the $199 tier with five founders before the board update.

PRICING

ACTION · ADA

45 MIN

Saved to Ada’s record

· notes, duration, next step

On Ada’s record: session, 45 min

Chapter 4: Activities and hours

Hours delivered vs committed

Hours add up per advisor and per cohort from logged sessions.

Ada Okafor · this week

3

of 5 done

Send updated deck to Yara

Done

Book customer calls · 5

Done

Draft the $199 tier test

Done

Update the KPI sheet

Due Fri

Confirm demo-day slot

Due Mon

On Ada’s record: 14 h this cohort

Chapter 5: Reports

Advisory reports built from logged sessions

Reports show sessions, hours and outcomes per advisor, ready for the board.

Advisory · Spring

AugSep

SESSIONS

148

HOURS

111

FOUNDERS

12

YS

Yara Sadiq

20

h

PR

Priya Raman

16

h

MB

Marcus Bell

12

h

On Ada’s record: advisor report

Chapter 6: History

History after the cohort ends

If the advisor changes or the program ends, the history stays with the founder.

Ada Okafor · founder record

SINCE 2024

Applied · Spring 2024

2024 · logged automatically

PROGRAM

Accepted · cohort 7

2024 · logged automatically

PROGRAM

Pricing session with Yara

2025 · logged automatically

ADVISORY

Northwind intro · seed

Today · 09:40

CAPITAL

On Ada’s record: 3 cohorts of history

02 · Who it’s for

For your organization

For your organization

Track your roster, hours and outcomes in one place. One flat price covers unlimited advisors.

For your founders

For your founders

Advisors matched to what they actually need, and a record of every conversation they can go back to.

For your advisors

For your advisors

Advisors get their own profile and login. They see their matches, work with each founder in a shared workspace and log sessions in one place, and their history carries into the next cohort.

03 · Every side of it

What each side gets

For advisors

For advisors

Relationships that persist, and a practice that runs on one platform

You join free as a mentor, and since you sell services, every founder is a potential client. Those relationships don’t end when the cohort does.

  • Free to take part, and free to stay

  • Founder context in front of you before the call

  • Notes, actions and owners attached to the person they’re about

  • The relationship continues after graduation, and that’s where your next engagement comes from

For founders

For founders

An advisor who already knows where you are

You stop repeating your own story at the start of every session, and the advice you get is aimed at the stage you’re actually at.

  • Matched on your stage, sector and the gaps you named

  • No repeating what you already told the program

  • The advice, the action and the owner in one place

  • Your session history stays yours

For programs

For programs

Keep proven advisors across cohorts

Advisors are hard to recruit and harder to keep, especially when nobody can see what their sessions produced. Match them well and record each session’s outcomes, and they have a reason to stay for a third cohort.

  • Matched on stage, sector and named gaps, with the reason recorded

  • Hours and outcomes logged session by session

  • Proven mentors carried straight into the next cohort

  • The founder relationship continues after graduation, which matters if you hold equity

05 · Two field guides for this module

Read the field guides

Field guide

Field guide

Beyond the Cohort

The continuity problem

The continuity problem

9 pages · Free

9 pages · Free

Get the guide

Get the guide

Field guide

Field guide

Oversight Without Visibility

Why mentor and founder coordination breaks as programs grow

Why mentor and founder coordination breaks as programs grow

11 pages · Free

11 pages · Free

Get the guide

Get the guide

Switching costs

Migration is free

Our team does the migration with you, and there’s no fee for it. The FAQ below answers the questions people ask before they switch.

Switching costs

Migration is free

Our team does the migration with you, and there’s no fee for it. The FAQ below answers the questions people ask before they switch.

06 · Common questions

Asked at most demos

Anything else? Talk to us.

What does the module do for our program?

+

Do our advisors have to pay?

+

What happens to the mentor relationship when a cohort ends?

+

How does matching decide who gets paired?

+

What can we show a funder about the mentor layer?

+

How do we keep advisors from drifting away?

+

I’m an independent advisor. Does this work for me?

+

What if I run an advisory firm?

+

We’ll lose our history?

+

The program will go dark while we move?

+

Retraining everyone will take months?

+

We’ll be stuck if it doesn’t work?

+

Someone will send us a bill for the move?

+

It’ll need an integration project?

+

The comparison

Why teams choose Startup Science over the alternatives

Usually the competition is a dozen tools bought at different times. None were built for this work, and they don’t talk to each other.

What matters

Startup Science

Other tools

One record across everything

✓

✕ Every tool holds its own version of the same person

One flat price, unlimited seats

✓

✕ Priced per seat, so growing costs more

Built for the early-stage economy

✓

✕ Borrowed from software made for another industry

Founders, advisors and providers on one platform

✓

✕ Each side in a different system, or in none

Reporting from live data

✓

✕ Rebuilt by hand from exports, every quarter

Your brand end to end

✓

✕ Their brand, with your logo in a corner

Month to month

✓

✕ Annual contracts and quote-only pricing

Migration and orientation included

✓

✕ A migration fee, or no migration path at all

“Other tools” means the dozen or so separate products a program usually ends up running side by side.

The comparison

Why teams choose Startup Science over the alternatives

Usually the competition is a dozen tools bought at different times. None were built for this work, and they don’t talk to each other.

One record across everything

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Every tool holds its own version of the same person

One flat price, unlimited seats

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Priced per seat, so growing costs more

Built for the early-stage economy

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Borrowed from software made for another industry

Founders, advisors and providers on one platform

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Each side in a different system, or in none

Reporting from live data

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Rebuilt by hand from exports, every quarter

Your brand end to end

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Their brand, with your logo in a corner

Month to month

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Annual contracts and quote-only pricing

Migration and orientation included

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ A migration fee, or no migration path at all

“Other tools” means the dozen or so separate products a program usually ends up running side by side.

One price for the whole platform: $495 a month, flat, with unlimited seats.

Every product in the module is included, with no tiers and no add-ons.

Thirty minutes on your use case. No deck and no commitment.

One price for the whole platform: $495 a month, flat, with unlimited seats.

Every product in the module is included, with no tiers and no add-ons.

Thirty minutes on your use case. No deck and no commitment.

One price for the whole platform: $495 a month, flat, with unlimited seats.

Every product in the module is included, with no tiers and no add-ons.

Thirty minutes on your use case. No deck and no commitment.