Kristel Kruustuk

Kristel Kruustuk

Kristel Kruustük is the Founder of Testlio. As the originator of the tester-friendly, globally-networked approach to software testing that Testlio is built on, Kristel — alongside her co-founder and husband Marko — led the company from inception to its Angelhack win, refinement in the Techstars accelerator program, Seed, and Series A rounds, and subsequent growth. She is among the first three Estonian women to raise a VC funding round for their startup.

A passionate software tester in her own right, Kristel remains intensely focused on improving the quality, prospects, and capabilities of the software tester community at Testlio, on increasing the firm’s commitments to diversity and inclusion and underserved individuals and communities, and on angel investing and mentorship to other women-led technology companies like imagiLabs.

Kristel is a graduate of Estonian Information Technology College (now Tal Tech IT College) and a mother of two. You can find her talking about entrepreneurship, making work better, and life on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.

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