Mentor Capital, Inc. operates as a private equity firm, primarily focused on strategic acquisitions and cultivating nascent, high-growth businesses. The firm offers non-controlling equity funding and crucial liquidity options to smaller enterprises and their owners, with a particular emphasis on the burgeoning medical, recreational, and social-use cannabis sectors. Its investment strategy includes both public and private entities, as well as companies undertaking shelf IPOs, aiming to grant proprietors of private firms access to public markets. A specialized area of expertise for Mentor Capital is pre-initial public offering (pre-IPO) investments within the cannabis industry. For shelf IPO considerations, the firm mandates that target companies report annual sales surpassing $40 million. Mentor Capital typically aims to secure significant ownership positions in the companies it supports. A strict investment prerequisite is that all potential portfolio companies must demonstrate profitability. Founded in 1985, Mentor Capital, Inc. is headquartered in Ramona, California.