How it all started

Our story is all about providing strategic software testing at scale. We’ve brought together a global freelance network, expert services, and an integrated platform to help the world’s biggest companies and most innovative brands release better products faster.

The beginning

Meet the Founders

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Milestones

2012

Marko & Kristel enter Testlio in Angelhack London

2013

The founders win Global Angelhack in San Francisco

Testlio joins the Techstars accelerator program in Austin, Texas

2014

Steve begins advisory work with Marko and Kristel and coins “TestLion”

Seed round provides initial capital Testlio. Michelle Surya joins Testlio

2015

Early clients like CBS and Microsoft see strong initial value

Series A welcomes Altos and Vertex Ventures

2017

Kristel is recognized as entrepreneur of the year in Estonia

Testlio grows to over 100 clients, welcoming NBA, Fox, and others

2018

Steve becomes Testlio’s CEO, Kristel embraces founder & board director role

2019

Testlio Ignite launches our first class, helping those in need enter testing

Testlio becomes profitable and goes on to 3 years of Rule of 40+ performance

2020

The team becomes distributed-by-design

Testlio grows to over 100 full-time people

2021

Series B welcomes Spring Lake Growth Equity

Clients like Amazon, Netflix, and Thrive Market sign up

2022

Testlio celebrates 10 year anniversary

Testlio crosses 200 full-time TestLions

Kristel wins Inc Top 100 Female Founder Award

What’s next?

Despite the inevitable highs and lows of the journey, we’re still on a firm course to transform the world of software testing. With a global team of 220+ full-time and 10K+ freelance TestLions, it’s never been more exciting, adventurous and fulfilling.