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Just in: Lovable in talks to raise $300m at $13.2bn Valuation

Every Round, Every Investor and The Fundraising Playbook That Made VCs Do The Chasing

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Guillermo Flor
Jul 08, 2026
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This morning Sifted reported that Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion post-money valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round.

If it closes at those terms, the company will have doubled its price tag in roughly six months!

Sit with the timeline for a second, because the pace is the whole story:

  • Oct 2024 → raises $7.5M (Hummingbird Ventures, byFounders)

  • Feb 2025 → raises $15M (Creandum, Visionaries Club)

  • Jul 2025 → becomes a unicorn, $200M Series A at $1.8B (Accel, 20VC, Creandum, Hummingbird, byFounders, Visionaries Club, Evantic)

  • Dec 2025 → raises $330M at $6.6B (Google, Menlo Ventures, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, T.Capital, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, EQT Growth, Kinship Ventures, Accel, Creandum, Evantic)

  • Jul 2026 → reported talks at $13.2B

That is five financings in about twenty months, each at a higher multiple than the last, with a founder who at one point simply stopped answering the term sheets landing in his inbox at a $4 billion valuation because he didn’t feel like raising yet.

Most founders experience fundraising as a thing that happens to them. Lovable built a machine that made investors show up before it asked, compete once they were there and accept terms that got worse for them with every passing quarter.

What follows is the full breakdown: the five rounds with the exact numbers, the investors and angels behind each one and why those names in particular made sense and then the specific fundraising choices that turned public growth into a line of VCs waiting to give them money

Inside you will find:

🟧 The demand machine that took Lovable from a $7.5M pre-seed to a reported $13.2B in twenty months

🟧 The full details of all five rounds and why each fund and angel was chosen

🟧 The angel-first move that buys competence and distribution, not just a check

🟧 The public ARR cadence that made investors chase before Lovable ever asked

🟧 What Osika did when unsolicited $4 billion offers hit his inbox

🟧 How the product closed a $200M round before the pitch meeting even started

🟧 The investor-sequencing map for who to raise from at each stage

🟧 The six channels that put your growth in front of the people who write the checks


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