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Vybe bets governed vibe coding wins inside companies; repeat YC founders raise $10M seed
Repeat YC founders built Vybe so employees can prompt secure, data-connected internal apps; a $10M First Round-led seed backs enterprise vibe coding.
Vybe
What the business is
Vybe lets employees describe internal apps in natural language and deploys production-grade tools connected to Postgres, Salesforce, Jira and other systems, with auth and roles baked in.
Starting capital：$10M seed announced December 2025, led by First Round Capital with Y Combinator, Orange Collective, Pelion Ventures and Pioneer Fund, plus operator angels including Datadog CEO Oli Pomel, Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra and OpenAI product head Olivier Godement.
How it started
Quang Hoang, who founded Plato (YC W16) and later led product and GTM at Coda, and Fabien Devos, co-founder of Wolfia (YC S22), started Vybe in 2025 after watching Lovable, Replit and Bolt make vibe coding easy but leave teams stuck on data access, SSO and security when they tried to run real company processes. They took the idea through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 (X25) batch, where TechCrunch noted investors called the demo a 'clear winner'.
What happened
Vybe ran a closed beta with over 1,000 waitlist sign-ups and dozens of hand-onboarded teams, per its December 2025 announcement, including a customer that said it replaced its Metabase/Looker BI stack. On 2025-12-10 it opened sign-ups, launched remixable templates co-created with operators such as Lenny Rachitsky and Mathilde Collin, and announced the $10M seed round; Business Insider later covered the round and published the pitch deck (Feb 2026).
How it ended up
Still live and expanding: by mid-2026 the product had grown from internal apps toward 'AI coworkers' and Slack-native workflows, with public customers including Probo, UpKeep and CO2 AI; no shutdown or acquisition is reported in the cited sources.
Background
Vybe was founded in 2025 by Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos, two repeat Y Combinator founders (Plato YC W16 and Wolfia YC S22), on a contrarian reading of the vibe-coding boom: Lovable, Replit and Bolt had made it trivial to prototype apps, but none of that worked when a company needed an internal tool connected to real customer data with SSO and security controls.
Through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch the founders positioned Vybe as 'Lovable for internal apps': employees describe what they need in natural language and Vybe generates production-grade software hooked into Postgres, Salesforce, Jira, Redshift and MySQL, with auth, roles and deployments baked in from the start and a security layer that is deliberately not vibe-coded.
The startup ran a closed beta with more than 1,000 waitlist sign-ups and dozens of hand-onboarded teams - one customer said it replaced its Metabase and Looker BI tooling entirely - then on 2025-12-10 opened sign-ups, launched remixable templates from operators including Lenny Rachitsky and Mathilde Collin, and announced a $10M seed round led by First Round Capital.
By mid-2026 Vybe was expanding from internal apps toward Slack-native 'AI coworkers' and agents, with public customers such as Probo, UpKeep and CO2 AI; its bet is that most internal software will be vibe-coded by teams working alongside AI, and that the company that adds governance wins the enterprise slice.
What has to be true
- Vibe-coding tools had proven themselves on landing pages and prototypes but offered no path to SSO, permissions or live company data, leaving the internal-tools market open.
- The founders' previous companies - Plato (acquired by Coda) and Wolfia - gave them credibility and a network of operator angels who could open enterprise doors.
- Shipping a non-modifiable security layer first turned the product's biggest objection (AI exposing company data) into its differentiator.
- First Round Capital and Y Combinator led the $10M round in December 2025, a signal that investors saw enterprise governance as the durable layer of the vibe-coding wave.
What can be applied
A fast consumer trend can stall at the office door: the wedge that let Vybe raise $10M was not faster code generation but governance - SSO, roles and a security layer the AI cannot rewrite.
Aftermath
As of its 2026-08-05 Launch YC post, Vybe remained active and had expanded its pitch from secure internal apps to pre-built building blocks - integrations, SSO and AI tools - plus Slack-native AI coworkers, per AI Market Watch's June 2026 profile, which counted roughly 8-11 employees and listed Probo, UpKeep, CO2 AI, Luciq and Pointhound as customers. No shutdown, acquisition or revenue figure is reported in the cited sources.
Sources
- 11 startups from YC Demo Day that investors are talking about
- Vybe Pitch Deck - Best Pitch Deck
- Vybe - AI Startup Profile
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