India, Sept. 25 -- For the past year we have been evaluating the impact of 11 fintechs on women customers.

By March 2026, with a combined reach of 1.02 crore women, one finding kept surfacing which rarely reaches a product roadmap: Mentorship (and its value). For women entrepreneurs, mentorship is frequently the missing infrastructure that decides whether capital and training convert into a sustained enterprise at all. Most companies still treat it as soft support. The field evidence puts it closer to the centre of the business.

Mentorship is generally assumed to be one thing, or to do one thing. In reality, it does four things together. Networks that open doors an entrepreneur could not have opened alone. Role models who make a particu...