Lovable’s acquisition plans and what it’s asking for

Lovable, an AI-powered app-building platform, is looking for acquisitions. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Anton Osika, shared that Lovable is looking for “more great teams and startups to join Lovable.”

Osika framed the opportunity as a place where teams can keep building the kinds of projects they already care about—just with the ability to do it “at scale.” He also directed interested parties to reach out to Lovable’s M&A & Partnerships head, Th o Daniellot.

Why Lovable thinks founder-led teams fit its culture

Osika said that many people in key roles at Lovable were founders right before joining. He described a culture designed to make “founder-types thrive internally,” emphasizing the ability to operate autonomously and drive initiatives.

The message here is pretty specific: Lovable isn’t just hiring individual contributors. It’s signaling that it wants teams and startups where people are used to moving fast, owning outcomes, and building with a high degree of independence.

Competitive pressure in vibe coding and AI development tools

Lovable’s interest in acquiring teams or smaller companies comes while it’s racing against other tools, including Cursor, Replit, and Bolt, along with the coding capabilities of the AI models themselves.

Concern about larger AI labs

Lovable’s head of growth, Elena Verna, has previously said that Lovable fears competition from larger AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

In other words, Lovable isn’t only competing with “tools.” It’s also watching the underlying AI models get better at coding, which can reshape how people build—and which platforms win.

Lovable’s reported growth metrics

Even with competitive concerns, Lovable has reported significant growth.

ARR growth

Lovable recently reported that it has $400 million in ARR, up from $200 million at the end of 2025.

Daily project volume

Lovable also reports seeing over 200,000 new vibe-coding projects created on the platform every day.

These numbers are positioned as proof that the platform is still expanding quickly, even as competition intensifies.

Prior M&A activity: Molnett acquisition

This isn’t the first time Lovable has pursued M&A. The company previously acquired the cloud provider Molnett in November, with the goal of growing its cloud infrastructure team.

That earlier acquisition gives a clue about what “joining Lovable” can look like: not just talent acquisition, but bringing in capabilities tied to scaling the platform’s underlying infrastructure.

What Lovable hasn’t shared (yet)

Lovable hasn’t publicly detailed the exact types of startups, projects, or teams it’s currently most interested in. A request was made to the company to see if it would share more about what it’s looking for.