Overview

PushFar is a comprehensive mentoring and career progression platform designed to help organizations scale high-impact mentoring initiatives. By automating the mentor-mentee matching process based on skills and goals, it eliminates administrative burdens associated with manual spreadsheets. The platform provides structured guidance, progress tracking, and professional development resources to enhance employee engagement, retention, and performance across global enterprises.

Founder story

PushFar was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom by Gabriel Sirbu and Ed Johnson. The founders created the platform to democratize access to high-quality mentoring and help professionals advance their careers through structured, scalable connections. After significant growth in the mentoring space, the company was acquired by ScaleUp Capital in 2023.

What it does

• Automates mentor-mentee matching by utilizing intelligent algorithms that align users based on their specific skills, career objectives, and professional experience levels
• Provides real-time tracking of mentoring relationships, meeting logs, and goal attainment, giving program administrators visibility into engagement metrics
• Offers a structured training library containing hundreds of resources, articles, and e-books to support professionals throughout their mentoring journey
• Integrates video calling, meeting scheduling, and goal management directly within the platform to keep all communication and progress in one place
• Enables organizations to launch and manage private mentoring instances with customized branding and automated communication flows for internal teams.

Who it's for

• Corporate HR Departments
• Learning and Development (L&D) Teams
• Professional Membership Organizations
• Individual Career-Oriented Professionals

Why it works

• Automated matching algorithms significantly reduce the time and effort required to pair mentors and mentees effectively at scale
• Centralized progress tracking and structured resources ensure that mentoring relationships remain productive and goal-oriented rather than informal and stagnant
• Integration with existing company workflows, including SSO and communication tools, makes adoption easier for both administrators and end-users
• Data-driven insights allow L&D leaders to measure the impact of mentoring on retention and employee development, justifying program investment
• Gamification and badge awards encourage consistent participation, fostering a long-term culture of knowledge sharing and career progression within organizations.

Growth strategies

• Targeting enterprise- level L&D departments seeking to replace manual, inefficient mentoring processes with scalable SaaS solutions.
• Promoting an 'open network' model to build a large user base of individual professionals, which increases the pool for corporate matching.
• Strengthening integrations with enterprise HRIS and productivity suites to become a core part of the employee development tech stack.
• Leveraging case studies and impact metrics to prove retention and growth outcomes, appealing to HR leaders focused on talent management.

Alternatives

• Mentorloop
• Together Platform
• Chronus
• Guider

Comparison overview

• PushFar differentiates itself by offering both a public-facing open network for individual professionals and a private, highly scalable instance for corporate mentoring programs, whereas competitors like Chronus focus almost exclusively on large-scale enterprise internal programs.