Heini Zachariassen

Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that builds businesses. Menlo Ventures came back to lead another round alongside the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT Group) as co-lead, who believes what I’ve said from the start: We will build a long-lasting global business from Europe. For me, the most important part of a funding announcement is the accountability that comes with it. At our Series B in December, we committed to deeper integrations, stronger collaboration and governance, and the infrastructure people need to run software at scale. And then we did what we said we would do. Since then, the number of projects built on Lovable went from 25M to 60M, monthly visits to Lovable-built products went from 200M to 900M, and our ARR nearly tripled in these 8 months. This round creates the same kind of accountability. Since we started, Lovable has become the place where founders create million dollar businesses, business leaders spin up new product lines, and people inside companies rewire workflows and build tools that fit their exact needs, typically at a fraction of what software used to cost. There’s a lot more to do. We will create the most intuitive platform to build and run a business. That means: - Understanding what success looks like for you, then helping you achieve it. Not only ensuring your software works but also that you can attract customers, improve workflows, and grow your company. - Deeper integrations that work with your existing tech stack so you can build the interface to your entire business across sales, ops, marketing, finance, etc. - Becoming the safest platform to build and run your business on, which means secured code by default and that you get help to make safe decisions. As you build, the platform carries more of the security weight, spotting risks and helping you close them, so you can move fast without needing to become a security expert. - Staying model-independent and orchestrating the best models for every task so you don’t have to. We’ll continue to absorb the complexity of evaluating and teaching models to route to the best models in the background, to minimize cognitive load for our users. As more people depend on Lovable, the quality standards our team is driving increase every single day. We’re growing the team with people with a founder mindset: curious, ambitious, and who think end to end. Model training, product geniuses, infrastructure tinkerers, and security are the priority. The world is full of ambitious people with deep knowledge of problems worth solving. Very few of them have historically had the power to act on them. Our ambition is to give people that power, and then help them achieve more than they thought possible. Thank you to everyone who has followed along our journey. We have made a lot of progress but we are nowhere close to done, it’s still day zero. See our blog: https://lnkd.in/di5mUqSQ

We're now in the most important legal and policy phase of the EU–INC campaign: making sure the final law actually works for startups. That's exactly what we've spent the past months on. Together with an incredible community of legal experts, policymakers, founders and startup associations across Europe, we've gone through the Commission's proposal in detail and turned months of legal analysis into actionable resources. Here are the five non-negotiables to make the proposal work: 1) Free choice of registered office 2) One central EU registry 3) Access for all companies 4) Standardized stock options 5) Local labour law and taxes Download the 10-page position paper for more details: https://lnkd.in/dEYPMNHb But a position paper explains what should stay in the final law. It doesn't explain how to write it. That's why we've drafted 100+ pages of concrete legal amendments to both the Commission's proposal and MEP Repasi's draft report, so the final law delivers one European standard startups can actually use. We've spent the past weeks discussing and refining these amendments with policymakers, legal experts and startup associations, ahead of Parliament's 17 July amendment deadline tomorrow. Our amendments to the Commission proposal →https://shorturl.at/bm2R3 Our amendments to the Repasi draft report → https://shorturl.at/tod0X Europe has an incredible opportunity to create one corporate standard for 450 million people. As a community, we made the impossible possible. Now let's make sure the final law comes out of the negotiations stronger, not weaker. Let's create One Europe. One Standard. Allied For Startups European Startup Network Adigital AustrianStartups BESCO - The Bulgarian Entrepreneurial Association CRO STARTUP Czech Founders Czech Startup Association Danske Iværksættere - Danish Entrepreneurs Estonian Founders Society InnovUp Italian Tech Alliance Roma Startup Latvian Startup Association Startin.LV Startup Slovenia Startup Poland Startup-Verband Unicorns Lithuania

🍽️ Vota 3.13.1 is live on iOS. We've been cooking. 👨‍🍳 We started Vota to fix restaurant ratings. This update makes the app a lot more useful before you even sit down. Here's everything new: 📋 Full restaurant menus Browse complete menus with dishes, variants, visualizations and prices. Kids, lunch, dinner, brunch and everything in between. 🔥 Popular dishes Discover the most-loved dishes at each restaurant and rate them right from the menu. 🗺️ Smarter sorting and maps Sort your Home lists by best nearby, highest rated or nearest, and view every restaurant on a map. 📸 Better dish photos Dish cards now show matching food photos, mapped automatically from the menu. 🌍 Smarter menu language Menus now default to their original language when it matches your device language. Plus the usual round of performance improvements and bug fixes. 🛠️ Update now on the App Store and let us know what you think. 💬

On Google, the difference between a mediocre restaurant and the best in the city is about half a star. Sometimes nothing at all. Every place worth visiting sits between 4.0 and 4.7. That's not a rating system. That's every restaurant being told they're pretty good. On Vota, we use a scale from 1 to 100. All 100 levels are in play. A score of 100 means you're looking at one of the top 1% of restaurants in the world. A score of 1 — well, you know what that means. When the whole scale is in play, the scores actually tell you something. Download Vota. Help us fix restaurant ratings.

Years of saved restaurants on Google Maps? You can now bring them to Vota in seconds. Open Google Maps. Find your saved list. Hit share. Select Vota. Done. Every restaurant you've ever saved is now on Vota and ready to rate. Download Vota. Help us fix restaurant ratings.

Det kan være en jungle at gennemskue online-anmeldelserne af spisesteder. Her kan en Michelin-restaurant, der udelukkende bruger de bedste lokale råvarer, få en dårligere rating end pizzabaren nede på hjørnet, der har et anstrengt forhold til levnedsmiddelkontrollen, men til gengæld er gavmild med dressingen og den fabriksfremstillede pepperoni. Den type skævheder har fået den dansk-færøske Vivinio-stifter Heini Zachariassen til at kaste sig ud i et nyt iværksættereventyr. Han har udviklet en ny app til anmeldelse af restauranter, som han har døbt Vota og kalder for en "Michelin-guide for folket." Det fortæller han om i et interview med Computerworld Du finder et link til artiklen i kommentarfeltet

Controversial opinion: a burger joint and a fine dining restaurant are comparable. Strip away the price. Strip away the occasion. What's left is food quality and experience and one of them is better. That's the idea Vota is built on. Agree or disagree? Download Vota and settle it.