We're a small, customer-funded Canadian company building mentoring software that actually works. No venture capital. No corporate BS. Just honest tools for organizations that take mentoring seriously.
We built Mentorfy because we've lived both sides of the mentoring story.
ā Dapo Bankole, Founder
I came to Canada as a skilled immigrant with credentials, experience, and ambition. What I didn't have was connectionsāor any idea how Canadian workplaces actually worked.
A mentor changed everything for me. Not through some formal program with forms and quarterly check-ins. Just someone who answered my questions, made introductions, and helped me see possibilities I couldn't see on my own.
That mentoring relationship didn't just help me find my footingāit showed me how much gets lost when people can't find each other.
And I saw the other side: how hard it is to run mentoring programs that actually work.
The spreadsheets. The email chains. The matching guesswork. The zero visibility into whether relationships were thriving or dying. The expensive platforms built by companies that clearly didn't understand mentoringāor didn't care.
Every tool felt like it was designed by someone who'd never actually been a mentor or a mentee. They were complex, bloated, and priced like enterprise software because they were built for procurement departments, not for the people doing the actual work.
And most were Americanāmeaning Canadian organizations paid conversion premiums for tools that didn't understand our context, our regulations, or our reality.
Mentorfy started in Calgary in 2022, not from venture capital or a corporate innovation lab, but from frustration and necessity.
We wanted a platform that worked the way mentoring actually works: simple setup, smart matching, real-time visibility, and transparent pricing. No complexity. No bloat. No consultants required.
We fund ourselves through customer revenue, which means we build what you actually needānot what impresses investors. Every feature exists because a real person running a real program told us, "This would make my job easier."
We don't have a fancy office or ping-pong tables. We have customers who trust us, honest conversations about what we're building, and a genuine belief that mentoring matters.
We're not trying to be the biggest platform. We're trying to be the one that worksāfor HR teams stretched thin, for nonprofits with small budgets, for universities connecting thousands of students with alumni, and for anyone who believes people grow best when they have someone in their corner.
Every person who can't find the right mentor is potential left unrealized. Every organization struggling with spreadsheets is relationships that never form. Every program that fails because the software was too complicated is a missed chance to change someone's trajectory.
We built Mentorfy because we've been there. We know what good mentoring feels like. And we know what it takes to make it happen at scale.
We're here to make mentoring workāsimply, transparently, and well.
What makes us different from other mentoring platforms
Your data stays in Canada. Period.
All member information is stored on Canadian servers and designed to help you meet PIPEDA requirements. No cross-border data transfers. No wondering where your participants' information lives or who has access to it.
This matters for grant compliance, public sector contracts, and organizations that take privacy seriously.
You know what you'll pay before you commit.
Fixed annual per-member pricing ($85-145/member/year depending on program size). No "active user" surprises. No monthly reconciliation battles. No wondering if success means higher bills.
We publish our pricing publicly because we believe organizations deserve to budget with confidence.
No IT department. No training sessions. No implementation consultants.
Choose your program format, set your matching criteria, invite participants, and go liveāall in one sitting. One client launched in 45 minutes.
The platform is intuitive enough that program coordinators can run it themselves. Because mentoring programs shouldn't require a technical degree to operate.
Start with 100 members. Grow to 2,000+. Run multiple concurrent programs.
The platform scales with youāsame simplicity, same pricing structure, no sudden complexity when you hit arbitrary thresholds.
Automated workflows mean you can support 10x more participants without hiring 10x more staff.
We don't have venture capital investors pushing us toward bloat and exits.
Every feature exists because a real customer said, "This would make my program better." We build what you needānot what impresses boardrooms or looks good in pitch decks.
You fund us through subscriptions. We serve you, not investors.
Most "enterprise" platforms are complex because they were built by enterprise software companies.
Mentorfy was built by someone who's run mentoring programs and felt the pain of overcomplicated tools. We default to simple. We add features only when they solve real problems.
If something feels harder than it should be, tell us. We'll fix it.
How we work and why it matters
We don't try to be an all-in-one HR suite or a "community platform" or whatever else sells at conferences.
We focus on doing one thing really well: helping organizations run structured mentoring programs that actually work.
This focus means we can move fast, listen closely, and build features that matterāinstead of maintaining bloated product lines nobody asked for.
We're a small, profitable, customer-funded Canadian company. We're not a venture-backed rocket ship with unlimited budgets and 200-person teams.
What this means for you:
We're building a real business, not a valuation story.
Mentoring isn't magicāit's structure, consistency, and genuine human connection.
Good mentoring programs need:
We built Mentorfy around these realities. The platform supports good mentoring practicesāit doesn't replace them.
Being based in Calgary isn't just a fun factāit shapes how we work:
Data sovereignty matters here. Canadian organizations shouldn't have to explain to their legal teams why participant data lives in Virginia.
Privacy regulations are real. PIPEDA compliance isn't optional for many of our customersāit's a requirement.
Dollar conversions hurt. Paying $40 USD/user/month when the exchange rate swings isn't "just business"āit's a budget killer for Canadian nonprofits and universities.
Whether you're launching your first program or fixing one that's not working, we'd like to hear what you're trying to accomplish.
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