Our story
Guidance for the students who need it most.
KeyMentor began with a simple observation: the students who most need guidance are often the ones least likely to get it.
We're a team of students, educators, and mentors who came together after seeing how confusing and isolating the journey through high school can feel, especially for first-generation and lower-income students.
Instead of building another complicated system, we created a platform rooted in empathy, clarity, and real human connection. Our mentors recently walked the same path, so they get it.
Starting in 9th grade, we help students build a four-year plan, explore careers, and prepare for college with someone in their corner the whole way. It isn't tutoring. It's guidance, and it's free.
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Who builds this
Students and recent grads who lived this, not consultants explaining it from the outside.
Founders
Anson Zhao
Founder
- Founder, Northern Horizons (Career Venture Lab), a NASA-affiliated research program
- Co-founder of an online game company
- eCommerce general manager: grew revenue from $40M to $220M in a year
- Senior IT Manager, UPS China
Baichen Pan
Founder
- Serial entrepreneur with a background in online e-commerce
- Marketing Intern, Northern Horizons
Yuvraj Mundi
Founder
- Website developer: Wix, Webflow, Flutter, JavaScript, HTML, Java
- National winner, Website Coding & Development, FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America, a national high-school business club)
- FBLA chapter president: raised $8K+ through planned fundraisers
- Sales Intern, Northern Horizons
Team leads
Bach Giap
Head of Engineering
- Leads the technical build end to end
- Full-stack developer: Flutter, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL
- National winner, Website Coding & Development, FBLA
Chi Tran
Head of UI/UX Design
- Owns the product's look, feel, and flow
- Design Intern, Northern Horizons
- National semi-finalist, Website Design, FBLA
- Figma project experience across multiple designs
Early guidance changes everything.
A near-peer mentor in your corner all the way to graduation, from the first course you pick to the last application you send. Free, starting in 9th grade.