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.