Mentor Together

Mentor Together is an Indian non-profit that works to bring mentorship to every young person in the country, particularly students from underprivileged backgrounds. It pairs college students with screened and trained professionals who volunteer their time, and structures the relationship around a work readiness curriculum rather than leaving it open-ended. The organisation describes mentoring as both an end in itself and a means to an end: a healthy, nurturing relationship supports a young person's social and emotional development, while a mentor also helps build the specific skills a young person needs at critical points in their life. Its stated ambition is a digital mentoring ecosystem that brings educators, employers and individuals together so that career mentorship becomes a normal part of the college experience. Much of its delivery now runs through its own mobile platform, which it positions as the world's first mobile mentoring platform.

Major Areas of Work

• One-to-one mentoring: Matching college students with volunteer professional mentors after a screening and training process on the mentor side.

• Work readiness and employability: Building the career skills, confidence and clarity that students need to move from education into work.

• Digital mentoring technology: Running and developing a mobile mentoring platform with an evidence-based process, a structured curriculum and AI-powered features.

• Institutional partnerships: Embedding mentorship inside colleges, NGOs and state education systems so it becomes part of the standard student experience.

• Corporate volunteering: Working with employers to make mentoring a route through which their employees develop and give back.

Major Initiatives and Programmes

• Mentor To Go: A mobile mentoring app that delivers career mentorship anywhere, built on an evidence-based mentorship process, a full curriculum and AI-powered features.

• Work readiness curriculum: The structured programme that shapes each mentoring relationship, using activities, quizzes and live discussions to build employability skills.

• Mentor recruitment and training: A pipeline that puts volunteer professionals through stringent screening and training before they are matched with a mentee.

• Institutional mentoring partnerships: Programmes run with colleges and NGOs that make mentorship part of how their students are supported.

• State government mentoring ecosystems: Work with state education and skills bodies to extend structured mentoring across public tertiary education.

Mentor To Go is the flagship. It is the channel through which the organisation scales beyond individual campuses, combining a curriculum-led mentoring journey with app-based matching and tracking, and it is the basis of its partnerships with governments, institutions and corporate volunteering programmes.

Impact

Mentor Together states it has supported more than 58,000 mentees, drawn from over 12 states and 71% of them young women, with a mentor pool of over 25,000 volunteer professionals, and cites more than 12,700 structured mentorships facilitated through the Mentor To Go app on its work readiness curriculum. Its own site reports more than 400 educational institutions and NGOs and more than 50 corporate partners, and it maintains partnerships with the Government of Karnataka's Department of Collegiate and Technical Education, the Government of Telangana's Telangana Academy of Skills and Knowledge, and companies including Amazon, Microsoft India, Cisco India, BT Group, LinkedIn, Cognizant, Target, Western Digital, Juniper Networks, Novartis and CGI.

Leadership

• Arundhuti Gupta, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Srikrishna Ramamoorthy, Managing Trustee, and Partner, Unitus Seed Fund
• Sunitha Viswanathan, Trustee, and Partner, Kae Capital
• Meera Venkatesan, Director of Program Development

Working here suits someone who wants to build a system rather than run one programme: the work spans volunteer management at scale, curriculum design, product and technology, and partnership-building with colleges, corporates and state governments. It gives exposure to how a mentoring model is standardised, measured and pushed through public education systems, and to the operational reality of matching tens of thousands of students with working professionals. It fits people who are comfortable with evidence-led programme design and with youth employability as a problem to be solved at population scale.