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Mento
Mento is a performance-coaching platform that pairs leaders and teams with 1:1 executive coaches, adds a lighter layer of mentorship, and uses AI to connect what happens between sessions. Built on an 80/20 coaching-to-mentorship methodology and staffed by former C-suite, VP, and director-level coaches, Mento sells leadership development to companies that want to grow and keep their highest performers. Co-founded in 2019 by Jamie Albers and Alex Marcus, the Los Angeles company counts Anthropic, Dropbox, Brex, Gusto, and Vercel among its clients.
Jamie Albers
Jamie Albers is the co-founder and co-CEO of Mento, a Los Angeles career-health company that pairs people with coaches who blend 80% coaching and 20% hands-on mentorship from operators who have done the job before. A University of Pennsylvania grad who spent five years across Google and then ran growth and marketing at Jigsaw, she built Mento after her own executive coach reshaped how she led and felt at work. Mento has raised about $11.5M, including a $6M seed in 2023 backed by M13, and is now folding AI into coaching to make high-quality guidance affordable at scale.