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Vibe Coding2026-09-25 · source-backed
Co-founder Fabian Hedin told TechCrunch that apps built on the platform draw close to a billion views a month, and two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies have users on it including Microsoft, Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom. The company has raised over $700M, most recently $400M at $13.3B in August. (TechCrunch) Hedin's framing, "Lovable does not output code. The output is a product," is the clearest statement yet of why this category isn't competing with IDE-centric coding agents. Different buyer, different artifact.
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TechCrunch confirmed the Series C on August 12, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, up from $330M at $6.6B in December 2025. $500M annualized run rate as of June, 60 million hosted projects, 900 million monthly visits, and a multiyear Google Cloud agreement repr...
TechCrunch's August 29 piece frames Nvidia's durable advantage as system-level, built around Vera Rubin pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU, a Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, and storage and networking racks. VP of storage technology Jason Hardy is quoted claiming "upwar...
Signatories on August 27 include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle and IBM, saying there's "a limited window" to build unified defenses and naming hospitals, water treatment plants and internet infra...
Stripe's newsroom confirmed the deal on August 19, ending the rumor cycle Bloomberg started on the 16th. Axios puts the price above $8 billion mostly in stock, other outlets cite $7.5 billion, against OpenRouter's $1.3B Series B valuation from May. Alex Atallah promised "same...
Four stories about things going wrong. Here's one about something working, with actual numbers attached. In an August 7 disclosure covered by TechCrunch, Airbnb said AI now writes 60% of its new code, that concept-to-launch time on key initiatives has dropped by as much as 60%...
In a single three-day window, agent governance went from "nice to have" to standalone product category. Microsoft launched Agent 365 at $15/user/month — a governance/security control plane extending Defender and Entra to non-human entities. OpenAI acquired Promptfoo (used by 2...
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