Estonia's bilt.me raises $700K pre-seed to build native mobile apps with AI

What's the deal? Tallinn-based bilt.meDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised €610,000 ($700,000) in a pre-seed round led by Superhero CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, with backing from Bolt founder Markus VilligDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Lightyear founder Martin SokkDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. The company runs an AI-native platform that turns plain-language descriptions into native mobile apps.

What's the product? Users describe an app idea, and bilt.me's AI agent builds it, previews it on the phone, and helps publish it to the App StoreDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → or Google PlayDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Unlike rivals that generate web apps, bilt.me says it produces native Android and iOS apps with no code — and lets users export the underlying React Native code.

By the numbers: The company says it has passed six figures in annual recurring revenue, with revenue doubling month over month for three straight months. Thousands of people build on the platform — roughly 75% consumer apps, 25% private or in-house tools. Paid plans start at €13 ($15) per month, alongside a free tier and an enterprise offering.

The backstory: Founded in August 2025 by Uku Joost Annus, Kevin Akkermann, and Karl Kiilaspää as a hackathon project to address Apple's app-testing restrictions, bilt.me now has six engineers and streams the building of its own apps live on Twitch. The founders, still in their early 20s, won the first cohort of Tallinn hacker space ruum.

What's the endgame? bilt.me wants to become the go-to platform for anyone to build a company through mobile apps. "There are more than a billion websites but only a few million apps: apps are harder to build, so fewer people make them, and that gap is exactly where bilt.me sees its opportunity," said Annus. The funding will go toward global expansion and platform development.

The signal: The round is modest — its size lands around the 24th percentile for comparable deals — but the founders frame Europe's opening squarely at the application layer. "Europe is behind on energy, behind on chips, behind on AI infrastructure," said Annus, but "there's one layer where Europe is still world-class: the application layer, turning AI into things real people use and pay for."

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