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March 13, 2025

Lovable FOMO has VCs hunting for the next super fast app builder

Sifted lists seven European startups in the buzzing AI app builder space


Softr's cofounders Mariam Hakobyan and Artur Mkrtchyan

VCs have Lovable fever. The Swedish startup, which has developed an AI tool that lets people without coding skills create apps and websites in minutes, is one of the fastest-growing companies ever in Europe, had the mettle to turn down famed US accelerator Y Combinator and had investors such as Creandum coughing up $15m for a pre-Series A round a couple of weeks ago.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

Federico Scolari

Federico Scolari is a senior intelligence analyst and data lead at Sifted. Find him on LinkedIn

Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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