A $6.6 billion valuation and $330 million in fresh funding apparently wasn't enough. Lovable, the AI-powered app builder that lets you describe what you want and get working code back, is now actively hunting for startups to acquire.
CEO Anton Osika posted on X that the company is looking for "more great teams and startups to join Lovable." He pointed out that many of Lovable's current leaders were themselves founders before joining, framing the company as a landing spot for entrepreneurial talent rather than a corporate acquirer.
The timing makes sense. The vibe-coding space (tools that let non-developers build apps by describing them in plain language) has gotten crowded fast. Bolt, Replit, and others are all chasing the same market: people who have ideas but not the coding skills to build them. When you're sitting on $330 million and growing quickly, buying teams is often faster than hiring them one by one.
This is the classic well-funded startup playbook: raise a massive round, then use part of it to acqui-hire smaller teams who've already built something interesting. The targets are likely early-stage startups with strong engineering talent working on adjacent problems, things like UI generation, database tooling, deployment automation, or design-to-code pipelines.
For Lovable users, acquisitions could mean faster feature development and broader platform capabilities. For smaller startups in the AI coding space, it's a signal that the consolidation phase is starting. The window for independent vibe-coding tools may be narrowing as the bigger players absorb talent and technology.
No specific acquisition targets or deal sizes have been announced yet.