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The Munich-based startup Mentessa develops a collaborative platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate knowledge sharing and networking in companies. The company was founded in 2019 by Tina Ruseva; her husband Andrey Andreev joined as co-founder in 2022. The company received funding in the same year, followed by EU support in 2023. How has the company changed since our last interview in 2019? Tina Ruseva answers these questions in our update interview.

Tina Ruseva founded Mentessa in 2019. Her startup is a “mentor at work” that enables personalized employee development. The platform enables more knowledge exchange and collaboration within companies. It provides individual suggestions for suitable matches for social learning, as well as for formal upskilling offers or jobs. Ruseva describes herself as a “woman in tech turned entrepreneur”. She started as a qualified media informatics graduate from LMU and at Microsoft, and after an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (TUM) launched her career as a founder. Since then, she has founded several startups and social organizations, including the “Big & Growing New Work” festival and the New Work federal association. On September 24, her new book “I don’t have to do anything” will also be published at Haufe.

Munich-based edtech startup Mentessa secures financing and support from EIT Digital for a project with Raiffeisen Landesbank Steiermark.

Blickfeld, Kertos, Celonis – several companies from Munich have won the Best of Technology Award 2023. The Wirtschaftswoche award honors companies for their most innovative IT applications and most disruptive digital solutions.