mantro is all about substantial company building.
We don’t validate and leave. We don’t find someone else to do our work. We are a long-term joint venture partner for real digital innovation.
We don’t validate and leave. We don’t find someone else to do our work. We are a long-term joint venture partner for real digital innovation.
New Business Discovery
Our structured ideation approach is a unique methodology for both B2B and B2C products that lays out an idea portfolio, identifies potential gaps and evaluates strategies.
Trustful Partnerships
It’s not our thing to be told what to do. We take the hard decision and kill things that won’t work. We build slam dunk products together with our partners and decide for the best approach on an equal level.
Real Validation
We are not a market research institute. We validate by going out, taking real risk, selling the product to a significant number of real customers and by iterating on our hypotheses using MVPs.
The Full Journey
Our joint journey doesn’t end after the sexy part of market validation and MVPs. We stick around until the business is in scale, discover and involve partners and improve the product in lean start-up mode.
15 years of experience, over 500 projects and the development of more than 23 ventures led us to our digital innovation process. It follows an investment logic, similar to a start-up’s journey.
Ideation
Validation
01Find
We identify and validate strategic business potentials with our partner.
We establish a new company built on our infrastructure, people and motivation.
We create a start-up dedicated to become the next digital business for our partner.
Incubation
Nurture
02Build
We build the product, deliver it to real customers and industrialize it.
We let the company evolve in our ecosystem and acccelerate its development.
We develop the perfect organization for the venture and hire the right people.
Scale
Run
03Grow
We push the product to the market and let the venture team evolve.
We fully hand over the operations to the venture team.
We hand over the endeavor and deliver a successfully marketed business model.
We work with people. Here’s what people think about us.
In collaboration with mantro we’re creating new digital products and business models. Pragmatic, trustful and perfectly aligned to our customer target groups.
Philipp Dehn
CEO DEHN + SÖHNE
With its expertise in both technology and business mantro is the perfect addition to large technology companies for establishing new digital products.
Emanuele Parlato
Strategic Program Manager OSRAM
Based on mantro’s structure and expertise we can offer our B2B customers a professional solution especially in the early phases of our product.
Veit Blumschein
CEO & Founder Lanes & Planes
We leverage the full potential of our ventures by combining our digital origins with the expertise and reach of our cross-industry partners
We’ve started as a small consultancy and have grown into an international Company Builder.
Employees
More than 60 employees from 18 countries meet at mantro and create unique business.
Experience
Substantial know-how in product development comes from 15 years of experience in more than 500 projects and founding 23 companies including mantro.
Expertise
We gather the best people and skills in the digital space to rapidly design and develop great digital business.
Our team is our strength. We gather the best and brightest, the most open-minded and curious.
Ben Schüdzig
CTO - Founder - Technology
We don't put technology first, but we make strong use of our technological DNA to create cutting-edge products.
Manfred Tropper
CEO - Founder - Strategy
We are real entrepreneurs and our single goal is to create substantial digital business.
Markus Ortmann
CEO - Founder - Product
We create rockstar products. Everything else is not good enough.
We don’t believe in staying in the dark. We believe in sharing. That’s why we go out and shout our knowledge to the world.
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