Skills Platform
Connect the skills in
your organization
Mentessa combines expert program design with AI-powered matching for fully personalized talent development — connecting every employee to the mentor, project, training, or role that helps them grow.
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Intentional connections
What if every connection in your organization
was intentional?
That happens when every employee gets matched to the right opportunity to grow.
A researcher spends two days shadowing a peer at another site. They come back with an idea that changes a product.
A group of leaders from different cultural backgrounds meets regularly to tackle the real challenges of leading diverse teams.
A team member fills out their goals and gets matched with a senior leader for 6 months. The relationship reshapes how they both work.
A new hire meets 30 colleagues in their first month. Every match is chosen for a reason and conversations are scheduled in advance.
When connections like these happen, you stop running culture initiatives. You've matched the right people, at the right time, with the structure to make it last.
That's what Mentessa builds — with expert guidance and an award-winning platform.
Talk to an expertTestimonials
Results, from the hallway
to the boardroom.
Hear from executives, managers and team members.
With Mentessa we provide unique opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation for all our stakeholders.
Robert Kelemen Marketing Manager, Deutsche Telekom Techboost Community Mentessa scales to 100% of our employees, makes them happy every day, with no additional effort on our side.
Evica Kuc Head of Employee Growth, OTP Bank Exactly the right technology for our community of mentors. We use the intuitive platform to network the founders of tomorrow with the right experts. That saves us a lot of work and makes us very efficient.
Sophia Kuhl Managing Director, HHL Digital Space Both the preliminary work and the implementation were very professional and we look forward to further cooperation.
Stefan Loibl Co-founder & CEO, Innocation Masterclass Only by understanding the skills of the workforce we can connect and develop them. The collaboration with Mentessa will bring us one step closer to our strategic HR agenda.
Peter Krtschal Head of HR Management, Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark With Mentessa, we have a solution that helps us implement this employee development in a structured way as part of our mentoring program, while establishing clear, manageable processes.
Dr. Josephine Nehring Leitende Ärztin, Kantonspital Baselland At ARMID @Mentoring, we rely on exchange between equals. Both mentor and mentee actively carry the responsibility of their respective mandates. This shared reality results in exceptionally high mentoring quality, because both sides know the day-to-day challenges of board work from current practice.
Christine Heinze Vorstandsvorsitzende, ARMID e.V. With Mentessa, we finally have the infrastructure for FEMtoring to enable structured mutual learning between mentors and mentees, instead of just the usual networking circles.
Julia Burglechner Vorstandsvorsitzende, WIB The mentoring platform enabled us to really structure the process.
Doris Schönbeck Senior Expert, UnternehmerTUM gGmbH AI is changing how we work. But what people actually need at work hasn't changed: to be heard, real connection, meaningful collaboration. That's exactly what Mentessa and we are driving forward together across the DACH region — and I'm really looking forward to it.
Angela Wiesenmüller Director DACH, Mentimeter Mentessa creates real leverage by integrating exchange and belonging directly into everyday work — making growth scalable in the first place.
Charlotte Altmann CEO, sce advisory Traditional approaches to learning are too slow and disengaging, hindering innovation and productivity. Mentessa provides a solution to build a connected learning culture, increase employee engagement, and improve overall wellbeing.
George Rogers Chief Culture Officer, Lighthouse When we learn from and build on the ideas and skills of others, we create an inclusive work culture in which everyone can develop continuously and flexibly. This helps to react faster to change, to innovate, and ultimately to find more fulfilment at work.
Joachim Rotzinger CEO, Ingentis Our Approach
Advisory. Technology.
Results.
One ensures alignment.
The other ensures momentum.
Advisory
We design your program around your goals, your people, and your timeline with strategy sprints and stakeholder alignment.
Technology
A platform your team actually uses. Intelligent matching, progress tracking, built-in journals, and automated reminders.
Framework
Your goals.
Your timeline.
A framework trusted by 100+ organizations. Mentoring, onboarding, upskilling, and community — all on the same system.
01 / Strategy
We sit with leadership and design your outcomes. This is where “nice-to-have” becomes “we hit our numbers.”
02 / Operations
We design the delivery model. Who does what, who meets whom, and how to connect them at every stage.
03 / Facilitation
Matching people is step one. Supporting them is where culture shifts — with ongoing training and check-ins.
04 / Technology
The infrastructure that keeps everything connected. One platform for matching, communication, tracking, and reporting.
Our Team
A team on a
mission.
The future of work is connected, inclusive, and human.
Mentessa was founded in 2019 by Dr. Tina Ruseva and has grown into a team of mentoring experts, program designers, and engineers operating across three continents. When your learning culture launches, it’s built by a team that’s already done it hundreds of times.
Customer Stories
Success cases
Real programmes, real results, in the words of the people who ran them.
Next Step
Your skills are already in the building.
Let's make it visible.
Thirty minutes with someone from our team. Not a standard pitch deck — a look at where you actually stand: what skills data you already have, where skills management and AI-powered recommendations give you the most leverage, and what a pilot realistically costs.
Prefer to look around first? Start the tour (2 min)- GDPR-compliant
- EU hosting
- German & English-speaking team
- Works council documentation available
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