These Ex-Googlers’ AI App Builder Is Now Worth $100M
Vibe-coding startup Anything has raised $11 million in financing at a $100 million valuation, led by Footwork, with additional backing from Uncork, Bessemer Venture Partners, and M13.
Founded by former Google colleagues Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe, the platform lets anyone build and monetize an app through vibe coding — a technique where users provide an AI assistant with “vibes” or natural-language descriptions, and the assistant generates, refines, and debugs functional code.
The Viral AI App Builder
Anything went live on August 7, the same day as GPT-5, and reached 3.2 million views, with over 30,000 new sign-ups, within 72 hours of its launch. Within two weeks of its launch, Anything had more than 700,000 registered users and $2 million in run rate.
Several vibe-coding companies fail to offer the infrastructure that nontechnical users need to launch a functional product. Anything tackles that issue by providing users with all the necessary tools, such as databases for storage and payment functionality, to help users run businesses on the web or to send their vibe-coded creations to the App Store.
“You haven’t really seen real businesses built on top of any of these tools,” Amin told TechCrunch when speaking about other vibe-coding companies. “We want to be the Shopify of the space, where people build apps that make money on top of us.”
Amin says that users are already reaping the benefits of Anything, with some users creating functional applications available in the App Store, including a habit tracker, a CPR training course, and a hairstyle “try-on” app. Some of these apps are even starting to make a profit.
$100M valuation and A new product
In August, the startup secured $8.5 million in total funding, including a $5.5 million round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Other investors included Shopify, Front, Zapier, Intercom, Shippo, and Ben’s Bites. Its latest funding round brings its total funding to $19.5 million.
Alongside the funding news, Anything unveiled Anything Max, an autonomous software engineer that tests apps in real environments, detects bugs, and ships fixes without user input. “You’ll soon have a team of AI agents to help you make money on the internet. Even if you don’t code,” Amin wrote in a statement.
Looking ahead, the company aims to scale toward a new model of autonomous development teams, with users acting as product managers who direct AI agents to build and grow software without writing code.
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