About Mentorfy: Canadian Mentoring Software from Calgary

Our story

By Dapo Bankole, founder

I came to Canada in 2012 as a skilled immigrant with over a decade of international experience. My credentials were real. My track record was real. But none of it transferred the way I expected.

A mentor changed everything. Not through a formal program with intake 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 single relationship didn't just help me find my footing. It showed me how much gets lost when people can't find each other.

Then I started mentoring others, and I saw the other side

I saw settlement agencies and immigrant-serving organizations running programs that genuinely changed lives, and managing them with spreadsheets, email chains and guesswork. Coordinators couldn't see whether relationships were thriving or failing. Matches went silent with no warning. Funder reports were assembled in a panic the week they were due.

The tools that existed weren't built for this work. They were complex, expensive, and designed for procurement departments rather than the people doing the mentoring.

So we built what was missing

Mentorfy started in Calgary in 2022, from firsthand experience and a question I couldn't stop asking: why is it so hard to see what's actually happening inside a mentoring program?

Separately, I'm a doctoral researcher at Royal Roads University, studying mentor-protégé mismatches in pre-employment mentoring. The research and the company are independent of each other.

Behind Mentorfy is Mopheth Systems Corp., the enterprise software company I've led since 2015. I've spent 26 years delivering complex platforms for organizations including Lululemon, TELUS and Shaw. Mentorfy is built with the same rigour around security and reliability, but designed for simplicity.

We answer to our customers, not to investors, so we build what they actually need. Most of what we build starts with someone running a real program telling us what would make their work easier.

I also host The Immigrant Life podcast, hold the Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) designation, and serve on the boards of Windmill Microlending and Momentum Community Economic Development Society.

We built Mentorfy for the organizations doing the hardest mentoring work in Canada, starting with the people who help skilled immigrants rebuild their professional lives.

Watch Dapo's TEDx talk

The Hidden Struggles and Triumphs of Immigrant Professionals in Canada

For 19 years, Dapo pictured a prosperous life in Canada. He arrived to find himself in minimum-wage jobs despite his extensive IT experience. In this talk he looks at the systemic barriers that keep qualified immigrants from thriving, the challenge of earning Canadian experience, and how policy, community support, sponsorship and mentorship can change lives.

Dapo Bankole at TEDxRRUPlays from YouTube

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How we work

We build mentoring software. That's it.

We don't try to be an HR suite, a learning platform or a community app. Staying focused lets us move fast, listen closely and build what programs actually need.

We're honest about what we are

A small, independent team. You talk to the people who build the product, you get real answers, and our prices aren't subsidized by investors today only to rise tomorrow.

We respect how mentoring works

Good programs need quality matches, accountability and visibility. Mentorfy supports those practices. It doesn't pretend to replace the human relationship at the centre of them.

We're Canadian by design

Data residency, privacy law and exchange rates shape how we build and price, because they matter to the organizations we serve.

Let's talk about your program.

Whether you're launching your first cohort or fixing one that isn't working, we'd like to hear what you're trying to achieve.

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