Lovable— AI app builder from plain-language prompts.
Lovable is a Swedish "vibe coding" platform that turns a plain-language prompt into a working full-stack web app — front-end, back-end, and database — that can be edited by chat and deployed in one click, aimed at the 99% of people who can't code.
Notable milestones from Lovable’s journey — funding rounds, launches, and other moments worth knowing.
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$500M ARR with one million new projects a week
Lovable passed $500M in annualized revenue run rate less than four months after reporting $400M. By the same update, users had built more than 50M projects on the platform, with creation accelerating to one million new projects each week.
$400M ARR — and $100M of it added in a single month
By February 2026 Lovable had crossed $400M ARR, adding $100M in one month with a team of just 146 — roughly $2.7M of revenue per employee. The company says more than half of the Fortune 500 now use the platform.
$330M Series B at $6.6B — a 3.7x markup in five months
CapitalG and Menlo Ventures co-led a round that nearly quadrupled the valuation just five months after the Series A, with NVentures, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Khosla Ventures joining. ARR had doubled to over $200M between July and November, with customers like Klarna and Uber.
Lovable went from $1M to $100M ARR in eight months — outpacing Cursor, Wiz, OpenAI, and Slack — with 10M+ projects built and 100,000 created a day, and no spend on paid acquisition.
Lovable's $1M-to-$100M climb against the previous record holders.
$200M Series A at a $1.8B valuation — a unicorn in eight months
Accel led one of Europe's largest-ever Series A rounds, making Lovable a unicorn just eight months after launch, on a pitch to "empower the 99% who can't code to build production-grade software by talking to AI."
$15M pre-Series A on the back of explosive early traction
Eight weeks after opening access, Lovable was at $17M ARR with 500,000 users, 30,000 paying customers, and 25,000 new apps a day — built on just $2M of a €6.8M pre-seed. Creandum and Visionaries Club led the round, joined by angels including Charlie Songhurst and Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf.
GPT Engineer becomes Lovable and opens to everyone
The team rebranded the GPT Engineer app to Lovable and launched open access — a chat-first builder that turns a description into a deployable full-stack app, no setup required. It immediately became the platform's growth engine, with tens of thousands of new projects spun up daily.
Real apps built by chatting with Lovable — portfolios, blogs, presentation tools, and storefronts.
Two Swedes turn a viral open-source coding experiment into a company
Anton Osika's open-source GPT Engineer — which let an LLM scaffold a whole app from a prompt — raced to tens of thousands of GitHub stars in 2023. With Fabian Hedin he turned it into a commercial product and founded the company in Stockholm.
Anton Osika (CEO) and Fabian Hedin (CTO) — GPT Engineer's authors, later Europe's fastest-growing software founders.