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SolveAI's no-code enterprise bet: $50M in eight months for a London startup
SolveAI lets employees build production-ready, IT-compliant apps in natural language; ex-Palantir founder, $50M from GV and Accel in eight months.
SolveAI
What the business is
SolveAI is an AI platform that lets employees of large companies describe an app in natural language and receive a production-ready, IT-compliant full-stack application integrated with systems like Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake and GitHub.
Starting capital：$50M total: $5M pre-seed (Accel, Aug 2025) + $45M Series A (GV-led, Nov 2025)
How it started
Steve Basher, who spent eight years on complex enterprise software at Palantir, founded SolveAI in July 2025 in London. He closed the Accel-led $5M pre-seed in August 2025 — his first round as a solo founder — betting that the people closest to business problems, not developers, should build the tools.
What happened
SolveAI built a platform that turns natural-language requests into full-stack, IT-compliant applications deployable on existing infrastructure, integrating with Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake and GitHub. In November 2025 it closed a $45M Series A led by GV, with Northzone, Mantis VC and NeverLift participating plus angels including Palantir CISO Mike LoSapio; the $50M total was announced when the company came out of stealth on 2026-02-24.
No ending yet — it is still running.
Background
SolveAI is a London startup founded in July 2025 by Steve Basher, a former Palantir engineer, to let employees build enterprise software without writing code. Its platform turns natural-language requests into proposals, technical specifications and finally production-ready full-stack applications that integrate with systems of record like Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake and GitHub.
The bet is that AI coding tools so far only made prototypes, while large enterprises need governance, security and integration with legacy infrastructure. SolveAI answers with a mix of model orchestration — specialized agents for UX, frontend and backend — and forward-deployed engineers who learn each customer's systems before the AI builds against them.
In August 2025 SolveAI closed a $5M Accel-led pre-seed; in November 2025 GV led a $45M Series A, bringing the eight-month-old company's total to $50M, announced when it came out of stealth on 24 February 2026. The 12-person team plans to quadruple headcount in 2026 and expand forward-deployed teams across North America and Europe.
What has to be true
- SolveAI positioned against prototype-makers (Lovable, Claude Code) with a governance-first promise: compliant, integrated, production-ready output for enterprises.
- Forward-deployed engineers make the AI effective on real, messy enterprise stacks — a moat that pure code generators don't have.
- Palantir credibility (the founder's eight years, angels like Palantir's CISO) gave enterprise buyers and VCs reason to trust the security story.
- $50M in eight months shows how much capital is flowing to AI application layers — and how early the market is.
What can be applied
Early capital can be won on a sharp wedge — production-ready, governed output rather than prototypes — but an eight-month-old company must still prove enterprises adopt beyond pilots.
Aftermath
As of 25 February 2026 SolveAI is a 12-person team in Chancery Lane, London, out of stealth with $50M raised. It plans to roughly quadruple headcount in 2026, deepen integrations with corporate IT (Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, GitHub) and grow its forward-deployed engineering teams in North America and Europe, with early engagements in manufacturing, retail and financial services.
Sources
- SolveAI raises $50M to help employees build their own enterprise software
- SolveAI bags $50M from GV, Accel to let non-devs build production-ready enterprise tools
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