Lovable turns into a unicorn with $200M Collection A simply 8 months after launch

Quick-growing Swedish AI vibe coding startup Lovable has develop into Europe’s newest unicorn. Solely eight months since its launch, the startup has raised a $200 million Collection A spherical led by Accel at a $1.8 billion valuation.

Like Cursor and different platforms that assist builders write code and construct apps by harnessing the coding and reasoning skills of enormous language fashions, Stockholm-based Lovable helps folks use pure language to create web sites and apps. The startup’s trajectory to this point has charted straight towards the sky, with the corporate claiming it now has greater than 2.3 million energetic customers.

These customers are utilizing Lovable without spending a dime, to be clear, however in a latest discuss, the startup’s CEO Anton Osika mentioned it now has greater than 180,000 paying subscribers, and the corporate had reached annual recurring revenues of $75 million in seven months. That traction possible contributed to this outsized Collection A.

The Collection A noticed participation from present buyers, which embody 20VC, byFounders, Creandum, Hummingbird, and Visionaries Membership. In February, Creandum led a $15 million pre-series A spherical within the firm, which on the time mentioned it had reached annual recurring income of $17 million and had 30,000 paying clients, with “simply $2 million spent.“

The startup has managed this hockey-stick development with a reasonably sparse crew of solely 45 full-time workers. That’s virtually as many because the high-profile angel buyers who it mentioned participated on this spherical, together with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Distant CEO Job van der Voort, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah.

Most of Lovable’s traction appears to come back from non-technical customers, who use it to create prototypes that they will collaborate on later with builders to construct extra fleshed-out apps and web sites. This, and exams, are possible the majority of the ten million tasks which have been created on the platform to this point, the corporate mentioned in a press launch.

However Lovable additionally envisions itself turning into a device that can be utilized to create production-grade purposes that underpin full-fledged companies.

“On daily basis, sensible founders and operators with game-changing concepts hit the identical wall: they don’t have a developer to understand their imaginative and prescient rapidly and simply,” Osika mentioned in an announcement.

Notably, Osika lately mentioned on X that he’s now an angel investor in a software program startup that was ostensibly constructed with Lovable. (Going by some clues on the publish, that startup appears to be ad-testing platform Stardust — we’ve reached out to Startdust’s founder for affirmation, however haven’t heard again.)

Osika additionally celebrated that an app made by a big Brazilian edtech firm utilizing Lovable had grossed $3 million in 48 hours. This might current one other development avenue for Lovable, which has already managed to amass enterprise clients, together with Klarna and HubSpot.