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This week, we're spotlighting vibe coding and the prompt-to-production stack →
Vibe Coding’s Second Act
Turns out, the adoption numbers outlived the hype.
Vibe coding is no longer a 2025 sugar high: great for demos, unreliable for real software. 18 months after its breakout moment, the adoption curves are still moving up. Emergent crossed 5M users in just 7 months. Rocket.new surpassed 650,000 active users across 180 countries.
The category itself has matured. What began as a set of rapid prototyping tools is increasingly becoming a way to build production-grade software. Startups like Mayson and SageOx are now deploying applications that hold up in real-world environments. This is the exact objection that critics raised when the category first emerged.
Suffice to say, it’s still a vibe.
Vibe Coding Startups
Startups turning natural language prompts into software that actually ships. Ranked by website visit growth over the past 3 months.
Audos | 1,676% growth in 3 months
A no-code platform for building and launching AI-powered businesses that turns an idea into a working AI app and adds hands-on support and revenue-share capital. Raised a Seed round in June 2025.
New York, US
Legato AI | 566% growth in 3 months
A Vibe App Creation platform that lets non-technical users build tailored applications and AI workflows inside the tools they already use. Raised a $7M Seed in January 2026.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Sigmantic AI | 471% growth in 3 months
An AI-native platform for hardware design that turns customer specifications into production-grade RTL. Raised a $500K Pre-Seed in September 2025.
Boston, US
Enhance Labs | 242% growth in 3 months
Connects to your GitHub repo and spins up a live, isolated copy of your app, then builds fully working features and UI changes from prompts. Raised a $1.5M Pre-Seed in September 2025.
Brisbane, Australia
Kanu | 25% growth in 3 months
An AI agent that builds production-ready applications from natural-language prompts and deploys them onto your existing cloud infrastructure. Raised a Seed round in March 2026.
Bellevue, US
Vibe Coding Founders
Recently funded founders turning natural language prompts into software that actually ships.
Eugenia Kuyda
Founded Replika, the AI companion app with millions of users. Now founder and CEO of Wabi, a consumer platform where anyone builds and shares apps from a single prompt. Raised a $20M pre-seed in Nov 2025.
San Francisco, US
Akshay Srivastava
Spent two years building the backend-generation engine that now powers the product. Now co-founder and CEO of Mayson, a vibe-coding platform for creating production-ready full-stack apps from one prompt. Raised an undisclosed pre-seed in Mar 2026.
Noida, India
Nadav Abrahami
Co-founder of Wix (NASDAQ IPO). Now co-founder of Dazl, an AI app builder designed to turn vibe-coding into real, market-ready software rather than throwaway prototypes. Raised a $10M seed in Sep 2025.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tomas Erik Harmer
Serial founder and engineer. Co-founder and CEO of Atech, which brings vibe coding to hardware. Describe a product in plain language, and Atech handles the design, prototyping, and code. Raised a $800K pre-seed in May 2026.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Ayomide Omolewa
Former software engineering intern at Google and NVIDIA. Now co-founder and CEO of a0.dev, a platform that turns a simple prompt into a complete React Native app and ships it to the App Store and Google Play. Backed by YC (W25).
San Francisco, US
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