Operating Holding Company · Venture Studio
Bergisch Gladbach · Germany
We build companies, systems, products and infrastructure. Last Bench Labs.
An operating holding company and venture studio, based in Germany, that builds and runs technology and consumer businesses — across AI, finance, care, commerce, media, sustainable products and learning.
Our Operating Thesis
Different industries. The same question.
Can a problem be made radically simpler with better technology, better information, or better execution?
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BUILD
We start from a problem, not a pitch deck, and build the operating company around it.
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OPERATE
Each venture runs its own team, product and roadmap — we stay close, not in the way.
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CONNECT
Technology and operating knowledge move between companies. Customer data never does.
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SCALE
We grow what earns it, at the pace the market and the team can sustain — not before.
What Operating Looks Like
We don’t collect ideas. We build and run them.
Nine operating companies, across different markets, are the evidence — not the pitch.
AI Commerce · Operating
Whosta
Ask your business anything, in your own language.
India · Expanding globally
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AI Commerce · Operating
Whosta
Ask your business anything, in your own language.
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Cross-Border Commerce · Operating
Buzars
Cross-border commerce without the fragmentation.
07
Sustainable Consumer Products · Operating
Natural Things
Everyday products, reconsidered naturally.
08
Food & Nutrition · In development
SuperGrains
Old grains. New relevance.
What Connects Them
Independent companies. Shared thinking.
01
AI as infrastructure
Across Whosta and BaufiKlar, AI sits underneath the product as infrastructure — not a chat widget bolted on top.
02
Friction removal
Every venture exists to remove a specific, unglamorous piece of friction — a dashboard, a document, a border.
03
Human control
In finance, care and anything automated, a human confirms the consequential step. That's a design principle, not a limitation.
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Cross-border thinking
Germany, India, Europe and North America shape how the portfolio is built from the start, not added on later.
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Physical and digital
From lighting hardware to grain and NFC cards, several ventures build in the physical world as deliberately as in software.
Each company maintains its own operational and data responsibilities. Shared expertise does not mean shared customer data.
Geography
Built in Germany. Operating across markets.
Last Bench Labs is based in Bergisch Gladbach. Individual ventures operate where their own markets are — not everywhere, and not by default.
- EUROPE
- BaufiKlar · Nora · Buzars · Natural Things · SuperGrains
- INDIA
- Whosta · Buzars · Helfinch · SuperGrains
- NORTH AMERICA
- Natural Things · SuperGrains