Vibe coding is being called the greatest unlock for non-techies. These 5 startups are raising billions.

• The space has seen lots of deal activity and interest from Big Tech.

  Lovable<figure><img src="https://i.insider.com/69b24ad4a96e437d6eb82e26?format=jpeg" /></figure>Bolt, which uses Anthropic's models to let users build what they want with plain English, generated about $1 million in ARR in the first week it came out, cofounder Eric Simons told Business Insider last year. The week after, it added another $1 million in ARR, and then another.

“I had slept three hours a night for a week straight to get the release out with our team,” Simons told Business Insider about Bolt’s release. “After seeing it live, and people loving it — beyond anything I had ever created before — I cried, alone at my desk in my backyard shed office.”

In January 2025, Bloomberg reported that StackBlitz was in talks with investors to raise $83.5 million at a $700 million valuation.

Cognition

Cognition was founded in 2023 by former competitive programmers Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan. The company is best known for Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer that can plan, write, test, and deploy software.

Devin is an AI teammate capable of managing the entire software development lifecycle, unlike tools that focus only on code generation, said Emily Cohen, who heads people and operations at the AI startup.

The San Francisco-based company has attracted backing from investors including Founders Fund, 8VC, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, and Pear VC. In May, the company raised more than $1 billion at a $26 billion post-money valuation, making it one of the most valuable AI coding startups globally.

Cognition acquired AI coding platform Windsurf in 2025. It established offices in London and Singapore earlier this year.

Kilo

Kilo Code is a San Francisco-based AI coding startup founded in 2025 by Scott Breitenother, Emilie Schario, and Sid Sijbrandij, the cofounder and former CEO of GitLab.

The company offers an open-source AI coding agent that helps developers write, edit, and manage software using natural-language prompts, while supporting access to hundreds of AI models.

“What do you do if Anthropic has a down day? Do you say, ‘Hey folks, everybody take Friday off.’ I mean, you can’t,” Breitenother, Kilo’s CEO, said in an interview with Business Insider. “That’s where Kilo comes in. Sure, you can buy Anthropic, but also buy OpenAI and use them both through Kilo.”

In December, Kilo raised an $8 million seed round led by Cota Capital, with participation from Breakers, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, Tokyo Black, and others.

Elon Musk posted on X in June that Kilo’s tools were “not bad for version 0.1” and “good value for money.”

SkipLabs

AI infrastructure startup SkipLabs was founded in 2022 by Julien Verlaguet, the creator of Facebook’s Hack programming language.

In June, the company launched Skipper, a closed-loop coding agent for back-end services aimed at professional developers.

In March 2025, SkipLabs raised an $8 million seed round led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Tapestry VC and angel investors including Yann LeCun, Spencer Kimball, and Olivier Pomel.