As the generative AI software development platform gets closer to 100,000 users, the South African business HyperDev has acquired US$1 million in pre-seed funding from a network of European and British venture capital investors.
Users can use AI to create apps more quickly while maintaining control over their own code thanks to HyperDev, which released its alpha testing versions in 2025 and a version 11 early this year to a limited ecosystem of aspiring developers.
The startup has developed AI, dubbed “Guided Mode,” that enables non-technical users to hire developers to further ship software generated by AI and helps people use code generated by large language models themselves more effectively and efficiently to ship functional websites, apps, and other code solutions quickly.
A network of European and British venture capital investors has already contributed more than $1 million to HyperDev’s pre-seed funding.
“Every AI coding tool on the market was built on the assumption that generating code was the hard part. We built HyperDev because we knew the hard part was what came after, and nobody else seems to be solving that,” said Piotr Sobolewski, Chief Technical officer and Co-Founder at HyperDev.
“We backed HyperDev because 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 makes code generation actually useful. That combination of real tech and built-in distribution is rare at any stage – at pre-seed, it’s exceptional,” said Falk Albers, managing director at Reinsurance Intelligence Quotient (RIQ) and general partner at Loom Ventures.
