Everwise builds a professional development platform that combines a private-label SaaS learning experience with a global mentor community. The company began as a mentor–protégé matchmaking service using LinkedIn data and questionnaires and has layered in curated content, goal tracking, and additional software features. Today it sells a configurable SaaS platform to employers alongside access to volunteer mentors, experience managers, coaching, peer groups, and in-person events across three service tiers. Customers number more than 250, including Visa, Microsoft, T‑Mobile, Lyft and Zendesk, a 2.5× increase over nine months; the mentor community spans 170 industries and 70 countries. Pricing ranges from $10–$40 per user per year for basic software modules up to an average of $150 per employee per month for the more comprehensive tiers. The company is three years old, has about 80 employees, and is based in San Francisco and New York. Everwise operates an integrated platform for talent development that matches users with volunteer executive mentors via an algorithm that pulls LinkedIn data and answers to a personalized questionnaire. The product bundles curated content (books, talks), peer groups, goal-setting and progress tracking, and assessments such as Myers‑Briggs and Strengthsfinders, plus a human "experience manager" to support accountability. The company is three years old, employs about 40 people, and reports “thousands” of mentors across 70 countries and 130 industries helping “thousands” of protégés. About 100 companies use the service; many pay roughly $150 per employee per month, and several dozen license Everwise’s software to run internally. Customers cited in the article include Tata Communications, Gilead Sciences, and Virgin Unite. Everwise is not yet profitable and is using product and expansion investments to grow internationally, including a planned launch in Australia. Everwise offers a platform that plugs LinkedIn data and a personalized questionnaire into a matching algorithm (built from studies of ~60,000 mentoring partnerships) to pair protégés with vetted volunteer executive mentors. The service combines software with human “relationship managers” who shepherd six-month mentoring relationships via calls and surveys. Protégés pay $150 per month; mentors participate as volunteers and companies have purchased access for employees during the private beta. Enterprise customers during beta included Hewlett Packard, Direct Energy, and Sigma Aldrich. The startup is co‑founded by Maynard Webb and Mike Bergelson and operates from San Francisco and New York with a full‑time staff of 14. Management says the platform could be scaled beyond white‑collar corporate contexts to other career and guidance scenarios.

Total raised

$25M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Oct 2016