South African startup HyperDev has raised US$1 million 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 users.
HyperDev, which launched its alpha testing versions in 2025 and launched a version 11 early this year to a closed ecosystem of aspiring developers, allows users to use AI to more quickly build apps, but retaining control over their own code at the same time. The startup has created AI – dubbed ‘Guided Mode’ – that helps people more efficiently and effectively use code generated by large language models themselves, to ship working websites, apps, and other code solutions quickly, and also allows non technical users to hire developers to further ship software generated by AI.
HyperDev has now raised more than US$1 million in pre-seed funding from a network of venture capital investors from Europe and the UK. “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.