The students, who are not criminals, founded AO wood design d.d. and were awarded the title of Student Company of the Year 2024. "This is a story of perseverance and a story about the importance of believing in what you do," says their mentor Prof. Peter Kurnik.
Nejc, Mihael and Lovro won the 20th POPRI national competition with their product OnStage (now Algorythmo), and later won 2nd place at the Rector's Prize of the University of Ljubljana.
"If someone had told me in 2015 that it would take me four years to get rid of the minimum wage, six years to make the company stable and eight years to make the first major profit ... I might not have chosen this path." In 2023, the nine-person team generated €3 million in revenue, €160,000 in added value per person and just under €1 million in net profit after tax. Do you know the story of the creation of MonoDAQ, which was renamed Dewesoft Monitoring?
Looking at this table, it is hard to believe that its creator had no experience in making anything requiring manual dexterity not so long ago, since as an athlete he used his legs more. Then, a few years ago, when he was expecting a child, Aleš Belšak, a sports teacher, decided to make some of the necessary tools himself, and more often than not accidentally discovered his extraordinary talent.
"I'll buy this!" was the first thing we heard from Jureto at the mentoring council, even before the product launch. The deadline? Roka. Sold. That's how Nino Razpotnik sold his first carbon table. Only after that did he present his story ...
