Connect your cohort with the mentors and alumni who can help
Startups ask privately, and a mentor or alumnus is asked only when the request fits their profile. Your programme team sees which introductions happened.
Cohort, mentors and alumni, in one directory
Each WhatsApp group gets its own join link, so you can see who joined from where. A mentor who is also an alumnus has one profile.
Cohort group
This batch of founders
Mostly ask for help
Mentors group
Mentors and experts
Mostly asked to help
Alumni group
Founders from past batches
Ask and help
Matching runs across everyone who has turned on offers. Limiting a request to one group, such as mentors only, is planned for a later release.
What startups ask your mentors and alumni
Specific experience, specific partners. Milvao asks the mentor or alumnus whose profile fits, not whoever happens to read the group.
We need a cold-chain logistics partner for North India, pilot starts in March.
- Need
- Cold-chain logistics
- City
- Punjab, Haryana or Delhi NCR
- Details
- Pilot from March
Looking for a mentor who has priced a D2C subscription product.
- Need
- Pricing advice
- City
- Any city
- Details
- D2C subscription
We need to draft an ESOP policy. Can anyone suggest a lawyer?
- Need
- Startup lawyer
- City
- Any city
- Details
- ESOP policy draft
Any alumni who have sold into state government tenders?
- Need
- Government sales advice
- City
- Any city
- Details
- State tenders
Sample requests. Names are made up.
Mentors say yes more when they are asked less
Mentors give their time for free. Milvao only asks when a request fits, and makes saying no painless.
- Mentors reached the right way
Startups ask privately, and a mentor is asked only when the request matches what they know.
- Alumni stay useful
Keep the alumni group linked after demo day, and every past founder becomes someone the next cohort can ask.
- Numbers for your programme
Requests, offers, acceptances and introductions are counted for your programme review.
- Only requests that match the mentor's profile and cities
- 48 hours to reply, and declining is one tap
- At most two requests in any seven days
- PAUSE while travelling or between batches
What your programme team can show
Counted from what actually happened, not from a survey at the end of the batch.
- Confirmed requests
- what your startups actually asked for
- Offers sent and accepted
- how mentors and alumni responded
- Introduction rate
- requests with an accepted offer, out of confirmed requests
- Time to a yes
- median time from a confirmed brief to an acceptance
A 12-week programme with Milvao
One batch, from the first join link to demo day.
- Week 1
Pin three join links: cohort, mentors, alumni. Mentors fill in their profile in a minute each.
- Week 2
A cohort founder asks for a cold-chain partner. Milvao asks the mentor whose profile lists cold-chain logistics in Punjab.
- Week 5
A mentor travelling for two weeks replies PAUSE, and gets no requests until RESUME.
- Week 8
A government-tenders request finds no match among mentors and alumni. It comes to you, and you ask your wider network.
- Week 12
Before demo day, review the programme's requests, introductions and time to a yes.
What programme teams ask us
Pilot, then Starter or Growth
A cohort plus mentors plus alumni can pass 300 members, which is Growth at ₹6,999 a month for up to 1,000. Start the pilot with one cohort and its mentors.
Put your mentors one private message away
Pilot with one cohort and its mentors. We create the join links and train your programme team.