- Lovable is actively seeking startups and teams to acquire, CEO Anton Osika announced on X.
- The AI app-building platform was last valued at $6.6 billion after a $330 million Series B led by Accel, backed by Google and Nvidia.
- Lovable’s ARR has doubled to $400 million since the end of 2025, with 200,000+ new projects created daily.
- Head of Growth Elena Verna has said the real threat comes from OpenAI and Anthropic, not rival startups.
Buy Before You Get Outbuilt
Lovable is going shopping. CEO Anton Osika posted on X Monday that the $6.6 billion vibe-coding startup is looking for “more great teams and startups to join Lovable,” directing interested founders to contact Théo Daniellot, the company’s Head of M&A and Partnerships.
“Many of the people in key roles at Lovable were founders right before joining us,” Osika wrote. “We’ve built our culture in a way that makes founder-types thrive internally, being able to act autonomously and drive initiatives.” The pitch is clear: bring your project, keep your autonomy, operate at Lovable’s scale. This is not Lovable’s first move — the company acquired Swedish cloud provider Molnett in November to vertically integrate its deployment infrastructure.
$400 Million in ARR and a Race Against the Giants
The acquisition push comes as Lovable faces intensifying competition from Cursor, Replit, and Bolt — but the bigger concern is the AI labs themselves. Elena Verna told the Lenny’s Podcast that she worries more about “the big boys and girls” — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google — than about rival vibe-coding startups. When Anthropic bundled code generation into its $17/month Claude Pro plan, engineers publicly canceled Lovable and Cursor subscriptions. “Whoever has the best distribution that is earned, that is competitively defensible, that is sustainable, that is predictable, is going to be the winner,” Verna said.
The numbers, for now, are still moving fast. Lovable hit $400 million ARR in February, doubling from $200 million at the end of 2025. The platform sees over 200,000 new vibe-coding projects created every day. With roughly 175 employees and plans to double headcount by year-end, Lovable is betting that acquiring founder-led teams is faster than hiring one engineer at a time — especially when the window to build a defensible position may not stay open much longer.
