{"id":154892,"date":"2025-09-23T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:50:05","slug":"rocket-new-one-of-indias-first-vibe-coding-startups-snags-15m-from-accel-salesforce-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154892\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket.new, one of India’s first vibe-coding startups, snags $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocket.new<\/a>, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Salesforce Ventures to take on viral vibe-coding rivals like Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt by letting users build full, production-ready apps from natural-language prompts rather than just quick prototypes.<\/p>\n

Accel and Together Fund joined Salesforce Ventures in the all-equity seed round, which comes only three months after Rocket.new launched its platform in beta in June.<\/p>\n

Since its debut, the startup has crossed 400,000 users \u2014 including over 10,000 paid subscribers \u2014 in 180 countries and reached $4.5 million in annual recurring revenue. It is aiming to scale that to $20\u2013$25 million by year\u2019s end and $60\u2013$70 million by June next year, co-founder and CEO Vishal Virani (pictured above, center) said in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n

Based in Surat \u2014 a city famous for diamonds and textiles but far from India\u2019s usual tech hubs \u2014 Virani teamed up with Rahul Shingala and Deepak Dhanak to launch Rocket.new. The startup marks a pivot from their earlier venture, DhiWise, which focused on developer workflows.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are building the first vibe solution platform, which is not solving just a problem of day one, but what we are focusing on is solving the problem of day two,\u201d Virani told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

The 16-week-old startup aims to become a comprehensive agentic system, which will utilize AI not only to build apps and websites but also to conduct competitive research and product development, eliminating the need for product managers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur entire agentic system will help organizations build all kinds of functions around products \u2014 not just generating the source code \u2014 but even a facility to scale their product \u2014 all by giving natural-language prompts,\u201d Virani asserted.<\/p>\n

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The current model, which Virani refers to as version 0.3, has already built half a million applications and attracted product managers, solopreneurs, and front-end developers. It also counts users from companies like Meta, PayPal, KPMG, PwC, and Times Internet, who turn to the platform for personal projects.<\/p>\n

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About 80% of Rocket.new\u2019s users have so far built what Virani calls \u201cserious\u201d applications rather than simple landing pages or branding sites. Roughly 12% have created e-commerce platforms in segments like grocery and apparel, 10% have built fintech apps, 5\u20136% have developed B2B tools, and 4\u20135% have launched mental health apps, he said.<\/p>\n

Roughly 45% of Rocket.new\u2019s users are building mobile apps and 55% are building websites, Virani said. He added that many users build a website on Lovable or Replit, then turn to Rocket.new to generate a native mobile app by integrating with their existing Supabase backend.<\/p>\n

The platform combines large language models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google\u2019s Gemini with Rocket.new\u2019s own deep learning systems, which are trained on proprietary datasets from DhiWise.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur underlying architecture is completely different from what Lovable, Bolt, and everyone is doing,\u201d Virani told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

Generating the first application takes about 25 minutes \u2014 much slower than most vibe-coding tools, which usually produce results within three. But in our early testing, Rocket.new delivered a more comprehensive user experience, with all essential modules included.<\/p>\n

Rocket.new offers a free trial capped at one million tokens. After that, users pay a monthly subscription starting at $25 for five million tokens.<\/p>\n

This model effectively discourages hobbyists, while giving Rocket.new a healthy gross margin of 50\u201355% \u2014 a figure it aims to raise to 60\u201370% within the next few months.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is Rocket.new\u2019s largest market, contributing 26% of revenue, followed by Europe at 15\u201320% and India at 10%. To better serve its American users, the startup is establishing a U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto.<\/p>\n

Virani noted that Rocket.new\u2019s early traction was organic, driven by word-of-mouth and viral social posts. With fresh seed funding, the startup is looking to sharpen its go-to-market playbook, deepen its presence in key markets, and accelerate work on proprietary models and R&D.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw a clear gap between the magic of AI code generation and the reality of making that code production-ready,\u201d Kartik Gupta, Investor at Salesforce Ventures, told TechCrunch over email. \u201cRocket.new is purpose-built to solve this problem of iteration, maintenance, and deployment at enterprise scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rocket.new currently has a 58-member team, primarily in Surat, and expects to double its engineering and product staff in India over the next 12 months to support growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket.new, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5253,84,4203,1345,70991,70989,70990,56,54,55,165],"class_list":{"0":"post-154892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-accel","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-exclusive","12":"tag-rocket-new","13":"tag-salesforce-ventures","14":"tag-together-fund","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-vibe-coding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}