Studio CEO Julian Kainz swears by the knowledge and contacts he obtained in the start-up garage, an initiative of Graz University and Graz University of Technology to promote entrepreneurship.
By Isabella Zick Anyone who tells the founding story of the university app "Studo" has to look back beyond the year of the company's formation in 2016. The five founders - four men and one woman - got to know each other during their studies at TU Graz. Runtastic for the gym. Valentin Slawicek, the initiator of Studo and current Chief Technical Officer (CTO), was already programming in 2014 - but on a fitness app. "Back then, Runtastic was really big and since my colleague Christian was an avid fitness athlete, it was only logical to develop an app for the gym," says Slawicek, recalling the beginnings of his programming days. He worked on this app together with the later co-founder of Studo, Christian Lanz, who also studied at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). It was functional, fulfilled many use cases, but there was one thing it was not: it was not visually appealing.
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