IPN Momentum 2026 — Mentor Application

About this Program

The most useful mentor usually isn't the most accomplished person in the room. It's the founder who hit your exact wall a year or two ago and remembers what got them past it.

That's the match we're building. Momentum is a curated weekend for Ismaili founders — November 14–16 at Capital Factory in Austin, and we pair by niche, not seniority. Build DTC on Shopify? We seat you with founders working that same problem right now, not a general-purpose advisor. Roughly one mentor to every three founders, matched on what you tell us you can give: a warm intro, a first customer, a straight answer on a hard call. This form skips the résumé. It asks what you've built, the niche you know cold, and the help you can actually offer — that's the matching engine, and the rest fills fast.