What Makes Us Different

At Mentor Holdings & Investments, we believe that your investment can serve a dual purpose – creating wealth for our investors while creating positive and long-lasting value in industries and communities for women of color.  While our primary focus is achieving superior returns for our investors, we also recognize that valuing diversity increases our investors’ overall return.  

We invest on behalf of a diverse group of foundations, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals. Our team has committed substantial personal capital in order to ensure alignment of interests with our investors.

Mentor Holdings & Investments identifies investment opportunities with women of color-led businesses and/or seeks to recruit and develop opportunities for women of color to grow and succeed in companies that we invest in. 

Our Investment Strategy

Mentor Holdings & Investments focuses on a broad spectrum of companies in financial services, technology-related enterprises and real estate-related operations. We invest in companies and collaborate with management to drive long-term success and attractive returns. We understand the needs of managing profitable businesses while simultaneously seeking growth through efficiencies and value appreciation.  We manage our portfolio companies to align strategy and operations to business and market trajectory. We focus on driving efficiency and profitability for businesses through innovation while nurturing growth.

We focus on investing in businesses with:

• Proven business models with strong and defensible platforms 

• Strong management teams

• Growing revenues and earnings with strong cash flow and/or attractive returns on retained capital

we leverage our team's extensive financial and operational expertise and network of intellectual resources. we deliver added value to good core businesses through:

• Creating efficiencies in expenses

• Accelerating earnings growth

• Identifying market opportunities to improve returns

• Accessing relationships to broaden/build a stronger business

• Bringing effective financial and technological services, products and knowledge to strengthen business opportunities

What Is In A Name?

At Mentor Holdings & Investments, we take our name seriously.  

Mentor 

We believe that we are all called to be Mentors in the lives of others.  We take our role as a Mentor to our investors, employees and partners with the greatest responsibility.

Holdings

We value both our monetary holdings and our team expertise as we align both to increase overall returns.

investments

We invest time, resources, intelligence and capital to optimize growth and return. We truly believe that strong teamwork is the foundation for success.  We work in partnership with our investors, our companies, and our management teams to create value for all stakeholders.