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Vibe-coding platform · 2024–26

Lovable reported $50M ARR six months after launch and $100M two months later

The Swedish vibe-coding startup grew faster than almost any software company, according to its CEO, and raised at a $1.8B valuation.

Evidence: MediumTechCrunch relays CEO statements and a company blog. Later milestones come from secondary sources.
$50MARR six months after launchCEO tweet, May 2025
$100MARR eight months after first $1MCompany blog, via TechCrunch
$8Mnew ARR added each monthCEO on Bloomberg, Aug 2025
$1.8Bvaluation after $200M Series ATechCrunch, Aug 2025

At a glance

Builder
Anton Osika, co-founder and CEO. Founded 2023.
Product
Builds a full web app from a text prompt, typically React plus a database such as Supabase.
Launch
Web app-building product released in late November (2024, by inference).
Pricing
Users report plans from about $25 a month for 250 credits; agent mode charges more per task.
Competitors
Replit and Bolt, per TechCrunch.

Timeline

  1. Late Nov 2024App-building product released.
  2. Feb 2025$15M pre-Series A led by Creandum.
  3. May 2025CEO tweets $50M ARR in six months.
  4. 2 Jul 2025TechCrunch reports a raise of $150M+ near a $2B valuation (FT-sourced).
  5. 14 Aug 2025CEO says target is $1B ARR within 12 months and $250M by end of 2025.
  6. 2026Secondary sources report $300M (Jan) and $400M (Feb) ARR.
  7. 24 Sep 2026TechCrunch reports $600M annual run-rate, per co-founder Fabian Hedin at HumanX, up from about $500M in June. It also lists over $700M raised in two rounds, at $6.6B and $13.3B valuations.

How it was built

  1. 1Prompt-to-app generation connected to a database layer.
  2. 2An AI agent mode launched in beta in June 2025.
  3. 3No source here describes how Lovable itself was built.

Why it took off

  1. 1Non-technical users could produce a working web app from a prompt.
  2. 2Usage-based credits grew revenue alongside usage.
  3. 3Some outlets framed it as the fastest-growing software startup.
Be careful with

Read the numbers with these caveats.

  • ARR statements are company-reported, and the $1B target is a projection.
  • TechCrunch's July ("$150M at $2B") and August ("$200M at $1.8B") reports are not reconciled.
  • Pricing in the sources is user-reported, not from Lovable.
  • Retention, churn and user counts are not available in these sources.
  • In the same Sep 2026 TechCrunch piece, Lovable clarified a co-founder's "two-thirds of the Fortune 500" remark to mean that people at those companies use the platform. Conference statements are looser than filed numbers.
§ EvidenceWhat the sources say
Confirmed by a source we read
  • TechCrunch, 2 Jul 2025 (Julie Bort) and 14 Aug 2025 (Dominic-Madori Davis) contain the quoted milestones.
  • TechCrunch, 24 Sep 2026 (Ivan Mehta) reports that Lovable has crossed $600M in annual run-rate revenue, and lists over $700M raised in two rounds, at $6.6B and $13.3B valuations.
Reported figures
  • $50M, $100M and $8M-per-month growth figures.
  • $250M by end 2025 and $1B within 12 months.
  • The $600M run-rate (Sep 2026), stated by co-founder Fabian Hedin at the HumanX summit. The company said about $500M in June 2026.
Sources disagree
  • Round size and valuation differ between the July and August TechCrunch pieces.
  • Aggregators give different total funding figures.
§ Check it yourselfWith AdRadar

Don’t take the headline on faith. Watch Lovable yourself.

See what Lovable is doing in public: its ads, the pages they lead to, how its site changes and what people say about it.

Strong fit. A heavily competed category where ads, pricing and pages change often.

Ads

Archives what a company runs on Meta, Google and LinkedIn: new, stopped and long-running ads.

Watch Lovable's new, stopped and long-running ads across Meta, Google and LinkedIn.

Landing pages

Reads the pages its active ads link to and flags headline, offer and price changes.

Track the headline, call to action and price on the pages its ads link to.

Site pages

Reads the public sitemap: new and updated pages, page types, publishing rhythm.

Follow the sitemap for new pages and publishing rhythm; add the organic-traffic estimate if enabled.

Reviews and mentions

Collects Trustpilot reviews and Reddit mentions, and can summarise the complaints.

Read Trustpilot and Reddit for credit-cost and quality complaints.

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You can repeat this.

The parts that do not depend on a famous founder.

  1. 1Sell the outcome to non-technical buyers: a working app from a prompt.
  2. 2Tie price to usage so revenue follows adoption.
  3. 3Publish growth milestones; they are the marketing.
  4. 4Watch retention, not just ARR, as the category matures.
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