innovation Story
innovation Story
Those who want to go fast go
alone. Who wants to go far,
goes together.
The founding
story of mantro is quickly told
It all started with three software developers who discovered their own entrepreneurial drive at the age of 14 and 16. Markus, Ben and Manfred were allowed to take their first steps at school, but initially only with the permission of their parents and principal. What began as one-man shows changed when the boys met at university.
It was at university that the first joint product idea was born. However, it died much more quickly due to inexperience. Nevertheless, three like-minded people had found each other, whose skills complement each other wonderfully and whose first joint business plan still represents the core of mantro today: If you want to be fast, go alone. If you want to go far, you go together.
What is
Company Building?
2008 - 2011
Instead of developing its own products, the newly founded mantro.net GmbH is growing by implementing ever larger software products for international corporations. In addition to the founders' strong technical foundation, more and more business expertise is now being added and, with its unique combination of business and tech, mantro is now at the top of the supplier lists.
Company
building BY
mANTRO
In companies, everything is turned upside down and things are rethought.
It is precisely this combination of skills that is needed in times of rapidly advancing digitalization. In companies, everything is being turned upside down and things are being rethought. And right in the middle of this is mantro GmbH, whose focus is no longer purely on developing software.
The enthusiasm for own products is born again and leads to the foundation and development of absence.io and fleetster, created from own capital and with full entrepreneurial risk.
Over the years, two focal points have developed at mantro
.
Development and introduction of enterprise IT systems in the complex corporate world. And founding our own product companies. It was precisely this combination of focal points that struck a chord with the times.
While we were celebrating our first exit at absence.io, we founded the first corporate venture of its kind together with EnBW: Liv-T. With Oilfox, we are exploring new paths and a new type of collaboration. A symbiosis between corporates and IT companies was born: the innovation joint venture.
The mantro was and is a melting pot of hungry people.
That's why it didn't stop at a few ventures. 17 companies were founded in a very short time. Some lost their way, most of them were and are still successful today. We were able to successfully place Reev and Mobiko, among others, on the market together with large companies and build up our own teams.
As with any fast-growing company, however, old habits must be cut and old structures torn down to ensure continued success. The consulting business, which was purely focused on technical implementation, was discontinued and reinvented with the mantro product studio.
Today
Today
The time has come to make more of what we have learned.
We are completely rethinking mantro. In our ecosystem, things are not just created on whiteboards and pretty slide decks. We build. We invent. We invite others to simply join in.
And along the way, we develop ideas and implement them. If it doesn't fit, we tear down what we've created. Because our goal is not to arrive in the digital world, but to be on the move in it.
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