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#venture-funded case studies
3 sourced case studies tagged #venture-funded. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.
- Builder.ai: a $1.5B 'AI app builder' that collapsed into insolvency
- Lovable: a vibe-coding app builder that says it hit $100M ARR 8 months after its first $1M
- Bolt.new: a near-dead dev-tools startup that reached ~$40M ARR in five months
AI tools3 sources · 2 min
Builder.ai: a $1.5B 'AI app builder' that collapsed into insolvency
Builder.ai raised hundreds of millions to build apps with an AI assistant called Natasha. Former staff say humans did most of the work; restated revenue and a cash seizure ended it in May 2025.
aino-codecautionary
Vibe-coded6 sources · 2 min
Lovable: a vibe-coding app builder that says it hit $100M ARR 8 months after its first $1M
A Swedish team rebranded GPT Engineer as Lovable, a browser app builder for non-developers. Company-reported growth was extreme; so was the security lesson for the apps people built with it.
aivibe-codingno-code
Developer tools5 sources · 2 min
Bolt.new: a near-dead dev-tools startup that reached ~$40M ARR in five months
StackBlitz spent seven years on in-browser dev environments, was close to shutting down, then launched an AI app builder on top of that tech in October 2024. Growth figures are founder-reported.
aivibe-codingpivot
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