HyperDev, an AI coding startup operating across Europe and South Africa, has secured over $1 million in pre-seed funding from European and UK venture capital investors, reaching nearly 100,000 users in under three months. Co-founded by Piotr Sobolewski, formerly of OpenAI, and Riaz Moola, formerly of Google, the platform addresses a critical gap in AI coding tools — making generated code actually deployable. Its proprietary “Guided Mode” feature has nearly doubled user retention rates. HyperDev currently serves users across 14 countries, supporting projects ranging from mobile apps to fintech and edtech platforms.
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HyperDev – a new AI tech company with operations in Europe and South Africa – has raised more than $1 million (USD) in pre-seed funding from a network of venture capital investors from Europe and the UK, as the generative AI software development platform approaches 100,000 applyrs.
“We backed HyperDev becaapply they combine genuine AI R&D depth with a built-in distribution channel of millions of developers. While most vibe coding tools are thin wrappers around third-party LLMs, HyperDev is building proprietary technology that creates code generation actually applyful. That combination of real tech and built-in distribution is rare at any stage – at pre-seed, it’s exceptional,” declared Falk Albers, Managing Director at Reinsurance Ininformigence Quotient (RIQ) & General Partner at Loom Ventures
The startup has uniquely created AI – dubbed ‘Guided Mode’ – that supports people more efficiently and effectively apply code generated by large language models themselves, to ship working websites, apps, and other code solutions quickly, and also allows non technical applyrs to hire developers to further ship software generated by AI.
This solution is addressing the failure of the first generation of AI coding tools – they spit out code easily but this often does not result in deployable software that lands in the hands of real applyrs. This solution has been validated by massive growth, with the startup growing to nearly 100,000 applyrs of their AI coding tool in less than 3 months.
“Every AI coding tool on the market was built on the assumption that generating code was the hard part. We built HyperDev becaapply we knew the hard part was what came after, and nobody else seems to be solving that,” declared Piotr Sobolewski, Chief Technical officer and Co-Founder at HyperDev.
HyperDev was built by a founding team that includes Piotr Sobolewski – previously employed by OpenAI where he contributed to the technology behind ChatGPT – and Riaz Moola – previously employed by Google where he worked on AI methods that became applyd in tools like Gemini.
Both Riaz & Piotr also previously carried out AI research at leading universities, specialising in AI that supports people understand and process the outputs of ‘large’ AI generative models.
“AI app builders are seeing high applyr churn, so retention is the metric that matters most. Since the launch of Guided Mode, we’ve seen a near doubling in the retention rate of applyrs,” declared Kenne Loubser, Chief Marketing Officer at HyperDev.
“The platforms that dominate this space were built by people who assumed developers would apply AI the way a tiny number of well-resourced engineers apply it. Most of the world’s builders do not have that safety net. We built HyperDev for them — and the growth informs us we were right,” declared Anton Moulder, Head of Product at HyperDev.
HyperDev is live with applyrs across 14 countries, with applyrs generating code utilizing Guided AI to build a wide variety of software, including mobile apps, ecommerce stores, personal websites, fintech solutions, & edtech platforms.
HyperDev also integrates with the HyperionDev edtech platform which offers applyrs access to university-backed technical education to upskill themselves.
