Who should know whom

The right people are already in your community.

Mentable finds who in your community should know each other, tells both people why, and keeps the relationship going.

Cohort 001 applications are open. Ten mentors, ten mentees.

Applications reviewed weekly.

35.2271 N 80.8431 W
Charlotte, NC

Cohort 001 is finance in Charlotte. Your community’s tags will be its own.

We are our own first users.

These are real introductions proposed inside Mentable — shown exactly as both sides see them before either has said yes. Cohort 001 makes twenty more of these.

Abel Gessesse

Student, class of 2028
UNC Kenan-Flagler

Fixed IncomeMarketsRecruiting

matched

Christopher Floyd, CFA

Former MD, Co-Head of High Grade Sales & Trading
Wells Fargo

Fixed IncomeSales & TradingCareer Development

Abel starts on a fixed income desk. Christopher co-ran one. From Abel’s incoming role and Christopher’s three decades in it.

They are early and late in the same career. Abel’s first roles are in markets. Christopher’s title on that desk was co-head.

Abel’s questions are ones Christopher has already answered. Recruiting and career development are on both profiles.

Worth an introductionThat’s our co-founder. This match is why Mentable exists.

Pablo Ortega Navarro

Student, class of 2028
Queens University of Charlotte

FinanceCareer DevelopmentLeadership

matched

Peter Keane

President
Keane Capital Management

Career DevelopmentLeadershipMentorship

Pablo is building toward finance. Peter has spent a career in it. Pablo’s profile describes a path toward finance. Peter runs an investment firm.

Pablo lists leadership as an interest. Peter holds the job. Leadership is on Pablo’s profile. Peter’s title is president of Keane Capital Management.

Peter lists mentoring itself as something he does, not just advice. Mentorship is its own interest on Peter’s profile, and is not on Pablo’s.

Worth an introductionOur other co-founder. A recommendation, not a relationship yet.

Finding the right mentor shouldn't come down to luck.

The right mentor can change the direction of a life, and so can the right mentee. Mentable exists to make those relationships happen on purpose rather than by who already knows whom.

For the person further along, it means a way to pass on what they learned the hard way, to one person who can actually use it. Both sides get something. That is the whole design.

Three things, in order.

We understand the people in your community

Not a directory of job titles. What someone is trying to work out, what they have already done, and who they tend to be useful to, in their own words.

We show who should meet, and why

Every suggestion arrives with the sentence that explains it, built from what both people wrote. You can disagree with a reason. A score gives you nothing to disagree with.

We help the relationship last

The introduction is the easy part. Preparation before, next steps after, and somewhere the history lives so the second conversation starts where the first ended.

What a relationship looks like over a year.

Both sides get something at every step. That is what keeps a mentor answering the fifth email.

Introduced

The reason is shown to both before either says yes.

MenteeSomeone who has done it

MentorOne person I can actually help

First conversation

Both arrive with something to cover.

MenteeQuestions I had nowhere to ask

MentorA use for what I learned the hard way

A shared goal

Written down, so it is not re-litigated every month.

MenteeSomething specific to work toward

MentorA way to see progress

The mentee becomes a mentor

The loop closes.

MenteeSomething to pass on

MentorThe reason to keep doing it

Your people already want to help each other.

We are working with a small number of organizations while Mentable is young. They get our attention, and they shape what gets built.

See how it works for organizations

→Universities

→Companies

→Communities

The only question we try to answer

Who should know whom?

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