Vibe Coding Startup Anything Reaches $100M Valuation
The emerging field of vibe coding – using AI-powered tools to build applications through natural language prompts – continues to gain remarkable traction. Swedish startup Lovable previously demonstrated the potential of this space by reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue within eight months of launch. Now, newcomer Anything has joined the ranks of high-growth vibe coding companies with an impressive milestone of its own.
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Solving the Production-Ready Problem
Despite the rapid growth of vibe coding platforms, venture capitalist Nikhil Trivedi of Footwork identified a significant gap in the market. “These companies excel at developing prototypes but struggle to enable users to launch production-ready software,” he noted. The fundamental issue, according to Trivedi, is that most platforms don’t provide the complete infrastructure that non-technical users need to deploy functional products.
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Anything aims to solve this exact problem by offering a comprehensive suite of tools – including databases, storage, and payment functionality – that allows users to not just create prototypes but actually launch businesses on the web or publish applications to the App Store.
Explosive Growth and Funding
The company’s approach has generated remarkable early traction. Anything achieved a $2 million annualized run rate within just two weeks of launch, catching the attention of investors. This growth was particularly noteworthy given the increasingly crowded vibe coding market.
On Monday, Anything announced it had raised an $11 million financing round at a $100 million valuation. The round was led by Footwork, with additional participation from Uncork, Bessemer, and M13. As originally reported by eamvisiondirect.com, this funding validates the company’s unique approach to solving vibe coding’s production challenges.
Building the “Shopify of App Development”
Founded by former Google colleagues Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe, Anything specifically targets non-technical users who want to create complete web and mobile applications. “You haven’t really seen real businesses built on top of any of these tools,” Amin said about competing platforms. “We want to be the Shopify of the space, where people build apps that make money on top of us.”
The platform has already enabled users to create and publish fully functional applications to the App Store, including:
- A habit tracking application
- A CPR training course
- A hair-style “try-on” app
Some of these applications are already generating revenue for their creators.
From Marketplace to AI Platform
The concept for Anything emerged less than a year ago, building on Amin and Lowe’s previous experience running a bootstrapped development marketplace that combined AI coding tools with human developers. That business was generating approximately $2 million in annualized revenue, but the founders recognized that generative AI could deliver applications faster and more cost-effectively than their marketplace model.
In 2023, they pivoted to focus exclusively on developing an AI-powered app-building tool, raising pre-seed and seed funding from Uncork and Bessemer Venture Partners along the way.
Competitive Differentiation Through Infrastructure
Unlike competitors such as Lovable and StackBlitz’s Bolt, which rely on third-party database provider Supabase, Anything has built its entire infrastructure stack in-house. This comprehensive approach to providing backend tools represents a significant differentiator in the market and could prove to be a major growth driver as the company competes in the rapidly expanding vibe coding space.
