Munich · Holding Company · Active

Less talk. More build.

Most investors come in when the numbers work. We come in when the idea works. With capital, experience and our own hands on the keyboard.

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akquiro live · AI Acquisition

bridgebound build · Integration Platform

civion-labs stealth · Civil Resilience Infra

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About

The name says it all.
Just in reverse.

While others polish pitch decks, we ship products. Laberrabarber GmbH is the holding company behind digital ventures that set new standards in their respective niches.

Our focus: AI-native business models, SaaS platforms and digital infrastructure. We bring operational know-how in product development, go-to-market, growth and automation. As shareholders, as an operational advisory board, or both.

Active Ventures

100%

Operationally involved

At the core of every product

Market focus

Portfolio

Ventures

Live

Akquiro

AI-powered acquisition software

Acquisition software for freelancers and small agencies that treats outreach as an intelligent process, not admin work. From contact research to briefing generation to cold outreach. Automated and AI-native.

AI/MLSales AutomationSaaSFreelancer Economy

akquiro.io

Build

BridgeBound

Integration platform for international nurses

Integration platform for international nursing professionals on their way to Germany. Bureaucracy, language, settling in. In the user's native language, supported by an AI companion and buddy matching. For nurses who stay. Not just arrive.

HealthcareIntegrationAI CompanionMultilingual

bridgebound.de

Stealth

Civion Labs

Digital Infrastructure for Civil Resilience

Civion makes civil preparedness measurable. Three layers: citizen app, workforce platform, government dashboard. Turning passive guidelines into active resilience. Built on spaced repetition and EU/NATO frameworks. No state has real-time data on crisis readiness today. Civion Labs changes that.

GovTechCivil ResilienceAI-powered LearningEU/NATO Frameworks

civion-labs.eu

Next Venture

Pipeline open. Let's talk.

Leadership

Who's behind it

Bastian Scherbeck

Managing Director

Bastian Scherbeck built a cargo bike network across seven cities, grew an agency from zero to three million in revenue, and turned around a P&L everyone had written off. Today he builds his own ventures and advises German brands on what digitalization should actually deliver. He uses AI not because it sounds good in a pitch, but because it uncovers revenue potential that doesn't show up in any dashboard. In the evenings he curates Gabel & Gedanke, a salon dinner in Munich where fine dining meets topics nobody else puts on the table. If you're looking for someone who builds alongside you: reach out.

Also:

MD segmenta experience GmbH Columnist Business Punk Lead AI Commerce Lab BVDW

Operational Advisory Board — Model & Terms

LinkedIn E-Mail

How we think

Not just build.
Also publish.

If you work operationally, you have to think operationally. Bastian writes regularly about AI in commerce, digital value creation and what happens between hype and reality.

Column

Warenkorb-Macht

Column at Business Punk about the economics of the interface: Who sits between purchase intent and transaction, and why is that the power question of the decade?

businesspunk.com

Industry Work

AI Commerce Lab

Lead of the AI Commerce Lab at BVDW (German Digital Economy Association). Strategic impulses for the industry: from AI optimization of existing shops to autonomous shopping agents. Setting the rules for an intelligent commerce era.

bvdw.org

Investment Thesis

What we believe.

The most interesting digital products emerge where a real problem meets a technical capability that didn't exist two years ago.

Many investors look for sectors that shine. We look where it hurts. Where international nurses leave after a few months because nobody was really there after recruitment. Where crisis preparedness knowledge rots in PDFs instead of reaching people. Where freelancers do brilliant work but never learned to sell it.

None of this is glamorous. All of it is urgent. AI makes it solvable now. And we've learned: capital without a keyboard isn't enough.

Three ventures, one pattern: real problems that couldn't be solved with traditional means. AI not as a feature, but as a prerequisite.

What we look for

Founding teams in the early stage solving a real problem and able to deliver. Industry is open, as long as AI is at the core, not decoration. DACH or EU. And a founding team that's as impatient as we are.

What we don't do

Provide silent capital and wait for quarterly reports. Buy into ventures where we can't add real value. Finance business models built on hype instead of substance. If it's not a fit, we say so.