MeisterLabs GmbH
Headquarters
Vienna, AustriaFounded
2006CEO / Founder
Michael HollaufEmployees
51-200Funding
BootstrappedProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
mindmeister.com/
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About MeisterLabs GmbH
MeisterLabs GmbH is a software company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2006 by Michael Hollauf and Till Vollmer. The company operates under the brand Meister and builds a suite of online productivity and collaboration tools used by individuals and teams for planning, task management, and documentation.
The company's core products include MindMeister, a mind mapping and brainstorming application; MeisterTask, a kanban-style project and task management tool; and MeisterNote, a collaborative documentation and note-taking product. These tools are marketed together as an integrated productivity suite aimed at businesses, educators, and individual users, competing with products such as Trello, Asana, and Notion in various segments.
MeisterLabs has grown as a bootstrapped company without disclosed external venture funding, building its user base through direct product adoption rather than large marketing campaigns. The company employs a team based primarily in Vienna and has expanded its product lineup over time from its original MindMeister mapping tool into a broader suite of workplace collaboration software.
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Products by MeisterLabs GmbH
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Competitive Landscape
Who MeisterLabs GmbH competes with, and how they differ.
Miro is a broader infinite-canvas whiteboard for team workshops and diagramming, with mind-mapping as one of many templates rather than a dedicated product, and its enterprise tiers price well above MindMeister's mind-mapping-focused plans.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Lucidchart centers on structured diagramming — flowcharts, org charts, ER diagrams — with mind maps as a secondary template, targeting IT and process-documentation teams rather than MindMeister's brainstorming-first audience.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Whimsical bundles mind maps with flowcharts, wireframes, and docs in one workspace, competing directly on visual brainstorming but with a broader multi-format toolset than MindMeister's mind-map-only focus.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Trello is a pure Kanban board for task tracking, competing directly with MeisterLabs' sister product MeisterTask rather than MindMeister itself, and undercuts on simplicity with a free-forever tier for small teams.
XMind is a dedicated mind-mapping app sold mainly as a one-time desktop license (with a newer cloud add-on), competing head-on with MindMeister's core use case but with weaker real-time multi-user collaboration.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in MeisterLabs GmbH's history, with sources.
- Funding
Growth financing — EUR 44M ($52M) led by Verdane
Norwegian growth investor Verdane took a stake in MeisterLabs, the company's first major outside capital after 15 years bootstrapped; ranked Austria's third-largest funding round of 2021.
trendingtopics.eu - Launch
MindMeister for iPhone released
MeisterLabs shipped a native iOS app on the App Store, replacing the acquired MindMaker app; MindMeister had over 300,000 users at the time.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
MeisterLabs acquires MindMaker iPhone app
MeisterLabs bought the iPhone mind-mapping app MindMaker (built by Ultravague) to bring native mobile mapping into the MindMeister product line; purchase price undisclosed.
techcrunch.com - Milestone
MindMeister wins Red Herring 100 Europe Award
One of several innovation awards (alongside the HPV Award and Innovation Award) MindMeister won in 2008, an early recognition for the young Vienna/Munich company.
pressebox.com - Launch
MindMeister launches private beta
The flagship collaborative mind-mapping product entered private beta testing, the first public release of the idea the founders had prototyped the year before.
hackr.de - Founded
MeisterLabs GmbH founded by Michael Hollauf and Till Vollmer
The founders combined the collaborative editing of Writely (soon acquired by Google Docs) with the desktop mind-mapping of MindManager into a cloud-based mind-mapping concept, building prototypes the same year.
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