Find more information about our founders below.

About the founders:

Stefan Spirkl: Stefan has over 10 years of experience in software engineering and technology companies. During his schooldays, he founded a company for server virtualisation, which was used by several thousand small businesses in Germany and was acquired by a mid-sized company seven years later. After taking a year off for traveling, he studied Computer Science in Munich, where he also worked for a venture capital firm. He proceeded with postgraduate study in Computer Science at Trinity College in Dublin where he finished with distinction in 2020 before focusing on AutoSuggest full-time. You can find Stefan on GitHub.

Henrik Bienstein: Henrik founded AutoSuggest together with Stefan and Andreas after completing his MBA studies in London in 2019. He has extensive experience in key account mnagement and marketing and is responsible for operations and the commercial side of AutoSuggest. Besides having an open ear for our customers, he is working towards his doctorate in business administration at the chair for strategic management at WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management where he is also a lecturer. In his free time, you will probably find him playing football or tennis.

Andreas Schroth: Andreas has over 10 years of experience building and promoting technology products. During his schooldays, he founded the SaaS provider hPage.com and grew it to over two million users. Before that, we founded the German social network "Freundesbuch", with 800.000 registered users. He also operated other projects such as WebmasterPark, a community with over a million posts, Forumprofi, a forum-as-a-service and Mech-Arena, a browser game where robots fight against each other. As a developer, he is also involved in the open source community, e.g. for the parallel testing framework ParaTest. In his free time, Andreas is a passionate hobby pilot.