Lab.Coop

What Lab.Coop does

Lab.Coop Zrt. is an entrepreneur-owned tech venture builder headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, founded around 2015. The company incubates technology ventures, focusing on market-financed solutions that deliver immediate value to end users and faster return on investment. Rather than operating as a single-product company, Lab.Coop functions as a venture studio that builds, validates, and operates multiple internal tech ventures, with partners (employees) able to move between ventures. Its core operational stack centers on three methodologies: Lean Product Development (validating every major iteration on the market), Agile Software Development using Scrum and Extreme Programming with Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Design Thinking (Define-Research-Ideation-Prototype-Choose-Implement). The company also operates under Holacracy, a distributed-decision-making governance model, and practices extreme transparency, including open information sources, flat job-description structures, and a generous learning budget for partners. The company is led by Peter Langmar (CEO and Partner) and Istvan Köcse (CFO and Partner). No specific product portfolio, customer base, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed; at least one venture (Brickflow) has been shut down. Lab.Coop generates revenue through venture incubation, described as subscription/recurring, with profits reinvested into building new ventures. Go-to-market is limited: the company relies on a company blog, LinkedIn, and AngelList for visibility, and does not maintain traditional distribution channels. For international sales, Lab.Coop is part of a Consortium with two complementary companies, iMind and Digital Natives, which jointly address sales abroad and shared business challenges. The company won the Management Innovator Award in 2016 and was featured in the Startup Studio Playbook as an exemplary venture builder model.

Name

Lab.Coop

Legal name

Lab.Coop Zrt.

Website

https://lab.coop

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lab.Coop is a Budapest-based, entrepreneur-owned tech venture builder that incubates and operates multiple internal tech ventures using Lean, Agile (Scrum/XP/TDD), and Design Thinking methodologies, operating under Holacracy governance and serving end users through market-financed solutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Budapest

HQ country

Hungary

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Venture Incubation: Lab.Coop builds and incubates tech ventures, focusing on market-financed solutions that deliver immediate value for end users and faster ROI. Profits are reinvested to build new ventures.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lab.Coop is an entrepreneur-owned tech venture builder that incubates and operates technology ventures built by its partners using market-financed, ROI-driven solutions. The company applies Holacracy governance, extreme transparency, Lean Product Development, Agile Software Development (Scrum, XP, TDD), and Design Thinking to validate and ship ventures. Partners work inside the ventures, can move between them, and profits are reinvested into building additional new ventures.

Product overview

Lab.Coop is an entrepreneur-owned tech venture builder that incubates technology ventures using market-financed solutions. Rather than offering a unified product platform, Lab.Coop operates as a venture studio that applies Holacracy, extreme transparency, and methodologies including Lean Product Development, Agile Software Development (Scrum and Extreme Programming with TDD), and Design Thinking to build and validate tech ventures. The company partners with complementary organizations (iMind, Digital Natives) in a consortium to run sales abroad and address shared challenges. Each partner can craft their own role and move between ventures, supported by a learning budget and reinvestment of profits back into the business.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tech Venture Incubation

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• iMindcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of a Consortium created together with Lab.Coop and Digital Natives to work together on running Sales abroad and other shared challenges. The partnership extends collaboration even outside of Lab.Coop's own operations.
• Digital NativescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of a Consortium created together with Lab.Coop and iMind to work together on running Sales abroad and other shared challenges. The partnership enables collaboration on common business challenges beyond organizational boundaries.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lab_coop
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lab-coop
• Facebookfacebook.com/lab.coop

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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