Skip to content
Tech News
← Back to articles

Vibe-coding startup Lovable is on the hunt for acquisitions

read original more articles
Why This Matters

Lovable, a rapidly growing AI-powered app-building platform valued at $6.6 billion, is actively seeking acquisitions to expand its capabilities and maintain competitive edge amid rising competition from other AI tools and platforms. This strategic move highlights the company's focus on fostering a developer-centric culture and scaling its innovative vibe-coding technology. The company's growth and acquisition strategy underscore its commitment to staying at the forefront of AI-driven app development for both industry players and consumers.

Key Takeaways

In Brief

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform last valued at $6.6 billion, is on the hunt for acquisitions. On Monday, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Anton Osika, announced on X that the company was looking for “more great teams and startups to join Lovable.”

“Many of the people in key roles at Lovable were founders right before joining us,” he wrote in a post. “We’ve built our culture in a way that makes founder-types thrive internally, being able to act autonomously and drive initiatives.”

Osika suggested that the opportunity would allow those working on interesting projects to continue to do so at scale and directed interested parties to reach out to the company’s M&A & Partnerships head, Théo Daniellot.

Lovable’s desire to acquire teams or smaller companies arrives at a time when it’s racing against competition from other tools such as Cursor, Replit, Bolt, as well as the coding powers of the AI models themselves. The company’s head of growth, Elena Verna, has previously said that Lovable fears the competition from those larger AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Despite these fears, Lovable is still seeing noteworthy growth, recently reporting that it now has $400 million in ARR, up from $200 million at the end of 2025. It also now sees over 200,000 new vibe-coding projects created on the platform every day.

This wouldn’t be the first time Lovable has engaged in M&A, having previously acquired the cloud provider Molnett in November to grow its cloud infrastructure team.

TechCrunch reached out to Lovable to see if the company would share more about the types of startups, projects, or teams it’s currently interested in.