AI agents are getting VCs excited. Sifted data shows European companies in the sector picked up almost €500m in the first six weeks of 2025 alone. One of those startups is Stockholm-based Lovable, described as “the biggest story of the moment” by a person at a global LLM company.
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February 26, 2025
Lovable: Is this AI agent-maker Europe’s fastest-growing software startup ever?
LLM companies and top-tier VCs are snooping around the small Stockholm startup
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