Tallinn-based AI mobile app builder bilt.me has raised €614,900 ($700,000) in pre-seed funding.
The funding round was led by Superhero Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in software startups across Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Markus Villig, founder of Bolt, and Martin Sokk, founder of Lightyear, also invested in the round.
“We should be honest with ourselves. Europe is behind on energy, behind on chips, behind on AI infrastructure, behind on the frontier models – those races may already be decided elsewhere. But there’s one layer where Europe is still world-class: the application layer, turning AI into things real people use and pay for,” said Uku Joost Annus, co-founder and CEO, bilt.me.
bilt.me was founded in August 2025 by Annus, Kevin Akkermann, and Karl Kiilaspää. The company started as a hackathon project focused on solving challenges around Apple’s app-testing restrictions.
The founders, who are still in their early 20s, won the first cohort of ruum, a hacker space in Tallinn’s Krulli Quarter. The company now has a team of six engineers and also streams the development of its own apps live on Twitch.
bilt.me lets users describe their app idea in simple language. Its AI agent then builds the app, creates a preview that users can test on their phones, and helps prepare it for publishing.
Unlike many AI app builders that mainly create web apps, bilt.me focuses on native Android and iOS apps. Users can build these mobile apps without writing any code.
“When I was 19, building an app was one of the biggest barriers to turning my idea into a company. Bilt.me is removing that barrier for the next generation of entrepreneurs. If anyone with an idea can build and launch a real product, we unlock far more people to start companies, solve problems, and create something valuable,” said Markus Villig, founder and CEO, Bolt.
bilt.me will use the pre-seed funding to expand into global markets and improve its AI-powered app-building platform.
The company aims to become a leading platform that allows anyone to become an entrepreneur by creating and launching mobile apps.
