Vybe
YC X25San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 8 employees · 32 known investors
Vybe builds AI coworkers and custom applications that automate repetitive operations tasks and integrate with existing team workflows through Slack and 3,000+ business integrations. The platform targets businesses of all sizes seeking to augment their teams with AI-powered agents for sales, support, operations, finance, and other functions.
Also known as Nestor AI · Vybe, Inc.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (X25)
Vybe was founded in 2025 by Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos.
Investors · 32
Also in the syndicate · 26
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$10M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2025–2026
- Undisclosed amountseed roundFeb 2026
First Round Capital (lead), Y Combinator
Source ↗ - $10MSeed RoundDec 2025 · 3 sources
First Round (lead), First Round Capital (lead), Ami Vora, Andrew Miklas, Ben Lang, Boris Golden, Brian Balfour, Dave King, Inhi Cho Suh, Jay Reno, Jean-Denis Greze, Kevin Hartz, Lenny Rachitsky, Manish Gupta, Mathilde Collin, Mike Rosengarten, Nicolas Dessaigne, Olivier Godement, Olivier Pomel, Orange Collective, Pelion Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Richard Aberman, Shishir Mehrotra, Sri Batchu, Stephane Kasriel, Stephen Deasy, Surabhi Gupta, Taro Fukuyama, Tido Carriero, Tien Tzuo, Y Combinator
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Vybe is a San Francisco-based software company that lets employees build internal business applications by describing them in natural language, and run autonomous AI agents ("AI coworkers") on top of those applications. The company positions itself as bringing vibe coding — using AI and natural-language prompts instead of traditional programming — into the corporate environment, where general-purpose vibe-coding tools have mainly served prototypes, landing pages and side projects rather than production, data-connected internal systems.
The product combines three layers: connecting company context and production data sources, generating custom internal apps, and deploying agents that operate inside those apps. Pre-built building blocks include integrations (Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce, Postgres, MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks and, per the company, 3,000+ integrations), single sign-on, authentication, roles, environments, deployments and review flows, plus AI tools such as web search and summarization. AI coworkers operate in Slack public channels and DMs, can be mentioned individually or together, route work between each other, use only approved tools, ask before acting, log actions for review, and can run workflows on demand or on a schedule. The company states the security and permissioning layer is not vibe-coded and cannot be modified by AI, and that customer data is handled with scoped permissions and isolated context. Vybe supports switching between frontier models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
Alongside the builder, Vybe distributes remixable templates co-created with operators — for example performance-review and one-on-one frameworks from Lenny Rachitsky and Mathilde Collin, a build-vs-buy framework from Sue Nallapeta, and feedback-triage and customer-feedback-hub templates — covering marketing, product, support, recruiting, HR, operations, compliance and go-to-market use cases. Named example coworkers include an SEO/GEO manager, a social media manager, a hiring assistant, a product researcher and a sales assistant.
Founding story
Vybe was founded in 2025 by two repeat Y Combinator founders. CEO Quang Hoang previously cofounded Plato (YC W16), an engineering-leadership mentorship platform that reached $5M ARR, served customers including Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Slack and Twilio, built a community of 30,000+ engineering leaders, raised $23M from investors including Slack, FundersClub, S28 Capital and SaaSTR Fund, grew to 70 people, and was acquired by Coda, where Hoang then led product and go-to-market for Coda Solutions. CTO Fabien Devos founded Wolfia (YC S22), was previously Director of Engineering at Wealthfront and an engineer at Facebook/Meta, and created the mobile coding game Hacked, which reached one million downloads. The pair built Vybe after observing that fast-growing teams lose engineering capacity to internal glue work while existing vibe-coding tools could not safely reach company data.
Business model
Vybe sells a self-serve and design-partner SaaS platform that companies use to build internal apps and deploy AI agents, with engineering teams administering data access and permissions while business teams build and iterate on the app surface.
Subscription pricing of $12 per user per month plus usage-based credits consumed for app development.
Traction
During a closed waitlist period before the December 2025 launch, Vybe accumulated over 1,000 sign-ups and hand-onboarded more than a dozen teams on production-grade apps. Cited outcomes include a CEO saving roughly two days per week by running customer success operations on Vybe, a customer ingesting millions of warehouse rows to build BI-style internal views, and a customer replacing Metabase and Looker with Vybe connected to Redshift. By February 2026 the company reported dozens of customers and six employees; the YC profile listed a team size of eight. Internally, the company reports growing its blog search impressions roughly 13x in five months using its own AI agents.
Latest developments
In February 2026, Business Insider reported the $10M raise and published Vybe's pitch deck, noting six employees, dozens of customers, plans to hire engineers, and pricing of $12 per user per month plus usage credits. Product messaging has since shifted toward "unlimited AI coworkers" accessible in Slack, with named agents for SEO/GEO, social media, recruiting, product research and sales, and published comparisons against Anthropic's Claude Tag and other agent platforms.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Vybe competes in the vibe-coding and internal-tools tooling market, differentiating from prototyping-oriented platforms such as Lovable, Replit and Bolt, from developer-focused IDEs such as Cursor and Windsurf, and from no-code/low-code incumbents such as Airtable, Retool and Coda. The company also compares itself with agent platforms and Slack-based AI teammates, including Anthropic's Claude Tag. Some customers have reportedly replaced BI tools such as Metabase and Looker with Vybe. Business Insider reported the round arrived amid heavy venture funding for vibe coding and analyst caution that the initial boom may be cooling.
Stated differentiators are a security and permissioning layer that AI cannot modify, native connections to production data systems with pre-built API authentication, built-in SSO and single-login access across many apps, Git-based engineering ownership of the foundation, team-ready auth/environments/deployments out of the box, model-agnostic routing across frontier providers, and durable apps rather than one-off prototypes.
Technology
Natural-language app generation that produces production-grade software, a built-in core app shared by agents, connectors to databases and warehouses (Postgres, MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks) and SaaS systems (Salesforce, Jira, Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub), SSO and access control, per-agent isolation, action logging with approval gates, scheduled and on-demand autonomous execution, persistent context that accumulates from completed tasks, and multi-model orchestration across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models. The company also advocates pushing deterministic work down to the app layer rather than routing every task through a model.
Go-to-market
The company launched through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch with a public launch post and closed waitlist, hand-onboarded design partners to test production use cases, then opened general sign-ups in December 2025. Website conversion paths are "Request access" and "Book demo." Distribution is supported by operator-authored remixable templates, an examples/use-case library, a high-volume content and SEO blog, and Slack as the primary end-user surface.
Fast-growing companies and their non-technical internal builders — operations, customer experience, product management, RevOps, HR and recruiting teams — together with the engineering teams that own data connections, SQL definitions, SSO and access control; buyers cited include founders, CEOs and COOs.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with contact at founders@vybe.build.
History
Founded in 2025 and part of Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch, Vybe launched publicly through YC positioned as "Lovable for internal apps" and operated a closed waitlist while onboarding design partners. On December 10, 2025 it announced a $10M seed round led by First Round Capital, removed the waitlist to open sign-ups, and released its first operator-authored template library. Business Insider covered the raise and published the company's pitch deck in February 2026. Through 2026 the company expanded from app building into Slack-based AI coworkers spanning sales, marketing, HR, operations and compliance workflows.
Risks & controversies
Reported context includes a cooling of the vibe-coding funding boom flagged by Barclays analysts and a sharp downturn in software stocks, roughly $2 trillion in market capitalization, as investors reassess how AI coding tools reshape the sector. The company also acknowledges that AI-built applications carry a risk of exposing data when created by non-developers, the risk its non-AI-modifiable security layer is intended to address.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Vybe went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 6
by search overlapCompanies competing with Vybe for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsVybe published setup guidance for Ashley Belfort, an AI sales assistant agent that researches prospects, joins calls, takes notes, drafts follow-ups and updates the CRM.
Vybe disclosed $10M in seed funding led by First Round Capital, with Y Combinator, Orange Collective, Pelion Ventures and Pioneer Fund participating alongside more than 50 operator and founder angels including executives from Datadog, Grammarly, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
$10M source ↗
Vybe ended its closed waitlist and opened sign-ups, simultaneously launching a first set of remixable app templates co-created with operators including Lenny Rachitsky, Mathilde Collin, Sue Nallapeta, Vincent Nallatamby and Jonathan Parisot, with about 25 templates available.
Vybe was part of Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch, with Nicolas Dessaigne as primary partner, and launched publicly through YC as "Lovable for internal apps."
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Vybevybe.build · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Vybe do?
- Vybe is a San Francisco platform for building secure, data-connected internal apps and AI coworkers from natural language.
- Who founded Vybe?
- Vybe was founded by Quang Hoang, Fabien Devos in 2025.
- Who are Vybe's investors?
- Vybe's investors include Fjor Founders, HAWKTAIL, Orange Collective, Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Pelion Ventures.
- How much funding has Vybe raised?
- Vybe has disclosed $10M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Vybe headquartered?
- Vybe is headquartered in San Francisco, US.








