What do a designer in Ohio, a video game enthusiast in Vienna, and an 11-year-old student in Vietnam have in common? They can all build software, without writing a line of code, using Lovable. 

Lovable is building the last piece of software: a product that lets anyone turn an idea into an app by simply describing it in natural language. It’s already being used by 2.3 million users, including NHS workers to improve patient care, by kids to build websites in under an hour, and by our own General Partner, Judith Dada, to create The Open Source Nanny — a platform for working parents in tech to anonymously share stories about navigating childcare.

A year ago, this sounded like science fiction. Now, it’s live, and scaling fast. Less than 12 months after launch, Lovable has reached a $1.8bn valuation and raised one of the largest Series A rounds ever raised by a European company.

We backed Lovable early. And now, we’re backing them again.

Because we believe Lovable is more than a great product. It’s a glimpse into a future where building software is as intuitive as writing down an idea. Where creation is no longer limited to engineers, but is open to anyone with imagination and intent.

What caught our attention – before the demo

We first met Anton Osika, Lovable’s founder, at a dinner in Stockholm in spring 2024. Back then, the product was still called GPT Engineer: an open-source experiment with tens of thousands of GitHub stars and a fast-growing developer following.

But from our first conversation, it was clear that Anton’s ambitions went far beyond open source. He spoke in first principles. He had sharp product instincts. He wanted to build something meaningful.

And he wanted to build something global. In the age of AI, Europe’s most ambitious founders are building for the world, rather than simply their local markets. Anton’s vision was international from the outset, and that’s shaped every product decision, every hire, and every conversation. Lovable isn’t just a European success story: it’s a global one, built right here.

Not long after our dinner in Stockholm, Marton, VK and Robert from our team sat down with Anton over coffee in Stockholm, at an Espresso House. “It’s rare to meet a founder who’s that radically independent in his thinking, and also constantly asking for feedback,” Robert recalled.

The rocketship moment

We supported Anton and his co-founder Fabian with introductions to product-first angels like Andrey Khusid (Miro), Koen Bok (Framer), ⁠Sabba Keynejad (Veed) and our very own Johann Butting, who built Slack and Dropbox in Europe and led their global go-to-market strategies. 

Our approach at Visionaries is to connect the top 1% of founders with the top 1% of our network – people who’ve actually built, scaled, and navigated the kind of growth Lovable is now experiencing.

As Lovable started to see explosive growth within weeks of the public launch, we invested from our Early Growth Fund, alongside our friends at Creandum.

Anton Osika speaking at our Visionaries Unplugged event in Paris, February 2025

Why Lovable makes sense, and why it matters

Anton didn’t start his career in startups. He began as a physicist at CERN, studying the foundations of the universe. But he soon turned his focus to more human-scale challenges.

At Sana Labs, he helped reshape how millions learn. At Depict.ai, he made AI-powered recommendations more intuitive. Along the way, he spotted a deeper problem: software distribution was easier than ever – but software creation was still slow, expensive, and bottlenecked by developer access.

Lovable is his answer. A platform that collapses the cost, time, and complexity of building software, and opens that power up to entirely new groups of people: solo founders, indie hackers, small businesses, non-technical teams.

We’ve seen the power of this firsthand. Many of our team have built internal tools on Lovable’s platform, without code, without a team of developers, simply with an idea and a chat interface.

The internet democratised distribution. Lovable is doing the same for creation.

Still early, still all in.

We’re clearly excited by the company’s traction – but we’re backing this team again because of the ambition behind it.

Anton is thinking far beyond building an AI tool and is trying to redefine what it means to create software in the first place. To make it accessible, expressive, and – yes – lovable. ❤️

In a world where AI is transforming how companies are built, we think that matters more than ever.

We’re proud to continue this journey, and to back Anton again alongside an incredible group of investors and angels.

Because building should be as frictionless as thinking. Lovable makes it so.