Despite the significant uncertainty that accompanied the founding of software company Q, as both founders Dalibor Jurgec and Filip Ljubić had two children each and large loans, they did not want to give up on their intention. After its establishment in 2013, they continued to work for other employers and occasionally took on jobs for Q, until two years later they fully committed to their company. Over the nine years of its existence, Q reached a revenue of 100 million kuna and 300 employees last year. Ljubić expects that this year revenue will grow to over 150 million kuna, and he is considering hiring at least 150 more employees. Due to exceptional growth, the well-known ranking platform Clutch has ranked Q among the 15 best software companies in the world for the last two years.
Big Clients
They develop complex software solutions for clients in the automotive, pharmaceutical, financial, and media sectors, as well as trade, telecommunications, and insurance. At Q, clients usually come for strategic workshops that last no more than five days, during which the details of what clients want are determined. After that, Q creates applications, online stores, or something else of their choice, for example, they created Times Expert Traveler for the British The Times, an online portal where users can design their vacation as they wish.
– For the BBC, we created the Pandemic App with the University of Cambridge, an application that simulates the spread of deadly viruses, which reached the top spot on Apple and Google Play before the spread of the coronavirus even began. Along with the BBC and Times, our clients now also include Novartis, Manpower Group, Smart, Vaillant, and Hilti. Our start was actually difficult, but we soon realized that the companies we collaborated with in Los Angeles, Washington, and Luxembourg valued us highly, and we decided to capitalize on that. In the first phase, we did not have significant revenues, but we decided to put all our cards on Q, after which we worked for global companies like Volkswagen and Facebook. For Volkswagen, we developed the See More application, which allows the customer to point their phone at any VW model and get all the information about the vehicle, as well as the ability to view the car in augmented reality from the outside and inside. For Facebook, we worked on the onboarding application for employees. These are projects we worked on in the very beginning and which served as excellent references for us going forward – emphasizes Ljubić.
