{"id":789291,"date":"2026-07-09T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789291\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:47:08","slug":"lovable-reportedly-in-talks-to-double-its-valuation-to-13-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789291\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion \u2014 exactly double the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/18\/vibe-coding-startup-lovable-raises-330m-at-a-6-6b-valuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$6.6 billion<\/a> valuation the company achieved last December, <a href=\"https:\/\/sifted.eu\/articles\/lovable-300m-13-2bn-valuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sifted reported<\/a>. Menlo Ventures, a firm that announced its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/23\/after-betting-the-firm-on-anthropic-menlo-ventures-raises-victorious-3b-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$3 billion fund<\/a> last month, is expected to lead the round, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The less-than-three-year-old startup hit <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/09\/lovable-says-it-has-hit-500m-in-annualized-revenue-with-1-million-new-projects-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$500 million<\/a> in annualized revenue run rate in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lovable\u2019s users include founders, individual designers, and salespeople building websites and e-commerce storefronts. The company also sells its vibe-coding tool to large enterprises, including Workday, Asana, and Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vibe coding, which allows users to build software simply by describing it, is by far the most popular and lucrative use case for AI. Other high-profile vibe-coding startups include Replit, valued at <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/11\/replit-snags-9b-valuation-6-months-after-hitting-3b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$9 billion<\/a> in March, and Factory, a startup that helps enterprises develop AI agents, which <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/16\/factory-hits-1-5b-valuation-to-build-ai-coding-for-enterprises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">raised $150 million<\/a> at a $1.5 billion valuation in April. Meanwhile, Cursor, which offers vibe coding for developers, was acquired by SpaceX for <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/16\/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-for-60b-in-stock-days-after-blockbuster-ipo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$60 billion<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,63,99,198,54163,11604,33814,4201],"class_list":["post-789291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-in-brief","tag-lovable","tag-menlo-ventures","tag-vibe-coding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}