Updated
Updated · Computerworld · Aug 13
Lovable Raises $400 Million to Expand AI Platform, Hiring Toward 450 Staff
Updated
Updated · Computerworld · Aug 13

Lovable Raises $400 Million to Expand AI Platform, Hiring Toward 450 Staff

3 articles · Updated · Computerworld · Aug 13

Summary

  • $400 million in Series C funding will let Lovable speed up product, infrastructure and team expansion as the Stockholm-based AI software platform pushes beyond its home market.
  • 450 employees are now the target for this year, with hiring focused on machine learning, product, infrastructure and security, alongside planned expansion into London, Boston, San Francisco and New York.
  • 13.3 billion dollars is Lovable's new valuation after the Menlo Ventures- and Scaleup Europe Fund-led round, which follows a $330 million Series B completed in December.
  • 60 million projects have been built on Lovable since its November 2024 launch, and those apps now draw more than 900 million monthly visits; the company says nearly two-thirds of Fortune 500 firms use its platform.
  • Earlier this month, Lovable also partnered with Cerebras Systems to run latency-sensitive workloads on dedicated capacity, underscoring its push to make AI software creation faster at larger scale.

Insights

With a massive $13.3 billion valuation, can Europe's Lovable truly dethrone US tech giants in the fierce AI coding race?
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If AI can securely build enterprise apps from simple text prompts, what happens to the future of traditional software developers?