Anton Osika
About Anton Osika
Anton Osika is a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Lovable, an AI platform that turns plain-language descriptions into working apps and websites. He studied engineering physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has a physics degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and worked as a particle physicist at CERN.
He joined the AI startup Sana in 2016 as its first employee and founding engineer. In 2020 he co-founded Depict.ai with Oliver Edholm and was its CTO until October 2023. Depict.ai applied machine learning to product discovery for e-commerce stores and went through Y Combinator in 2020.
In 2023 he released GPT-Engineer, an open-source tool that generates software projects from natural-language prompts. It led to Lovable, which he co-founded with Fabian Hedin in Stockholm. Lovable launched publicly in November 2024 and raised a $200M round led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation in 2025.
Osika has said publicly on X that he is an angel investor. Crunchbase lists nine personal investments for him: Paper, BottleCap AI, Brickanta, Stilla AI, LUMOO Studio, Stardust, Vesence, Propane and Polar. Crunchbase shows him as lead investor on the LUMOO Studio angel round. Most round dates and amounts are not visible in the public data.
Recent dated deals include Stardust (pre-seed, November 2025), BottleCap AI (seed, January 2026) and Corridor (March 2026), an AI code-security startup that announced a $25M round led by Felicis.
On the Lounge deals desk, Osika took part in BottleCap AI's $7.5M seed round in January 2026. 20VC led the round. BottleCap AI is a Prague-based lab building efficiency-first foundation models, and its angels also include founders of Canva, Supercell and Datadog.
He is also listed as an angel in Corridor, which Forbes described as an AI cyber startup working on the security of AI-written code. He appears in the pre-seed round of Stardust and in Stilla AI's pre-seed round, according to Crunchbase.
Based on the deals that are public, Osika invests at pre-seed and seed, with one Series A listed (Paper). The companies are mostly software and AI startups, and several are European. His X post about an angel investment described a software startup built with Lovable. Tracxn associates his portfolio with enterprise applications and fintech. He has not published a check size or an investment thesis that we could find.
- BottleCap AI: Prague-based lab building efficiency-first foundation models; $7.5M seed led by 20VC, January 2026.
- Corridor: AI code-security startup; he is named as an angel in its $25M round led by Felicis, March 2026.
- Stardust: pre-seed round listed on Crunchbase, with a $1.96M pre-seed reported in November 2025.
- Stilla AI: pre-seed investment listed on Crunchbase.
- Paper: Series A investment listed on Crunchbase.
- LUMOO Studio: angel round on Crunchbase, where he is listed as lead investor.
- Polar and Propane: named by Tracxn as his most notable investments.
- crunchbase.com/person/anton-osika-dcb9
- crunchbase.com/funding_round/lumoo-studio-angel--7e65f0dc
- x.com/antonosika/status/1941916454145966103
- x.com/antonosika
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Osika
- se.linkedin.com/in/antonosika
- kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/anton-osika-och-fabian-hedin-kth
- mastersofscale.com/people/anton-osika
Investing activity
Anton Osika appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $8M. The most recent is BottleCap AI (Seed, $7.5M, Jan 2026).
Anton Osika most often invests alongside The Twenty Minute VC, Mika Vormoo, Thomas Wolf and Illusian Founder Office, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Anton Osika
Is Anton Osika an angel investor?
Yes. He has said on X that he is an angel investor, and Crunchbase lists nine personal investments. He is also co-founder and CEO of Lovable.
What stage does Anton Osika invest in?
Public records show mostly pre-seed and seed rounds, including Stardust, Stilla AI and BottleCap AI. Crunchbase also lists a Series A in Paper.
What is Anton Osika's check size?
No check size has been published. The round totals in public data are company-level amounts, not his own investment.
Which AI startups has Anton Osika backed?
He joined BottleCap AI's $7.5M seed in January 2026 and is named as an angel in Corridor's March 2026 round. He is also listed in Stardust and Stilla AI.
What does Anton Osika look for in startups?
He has no public investment thesis that we could find. In an X post announcing an angel investment he praised the team and the product, and the startup was built with Lovable.
How can founders reach Anton Osika?
He is active on X at @antonosika and on LinkedIn. He has no personal investing site that we could find.
What AI companies has Anton Osika invested in?
Anton Osika's AI investments include BottleCap AI. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Anton Osika invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Anton Osika has invested at Seed, with a median round of $8M.
Who does Anton Osika co-invest with?
Anton Osika's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are The Twenty Minute VC (1 deal), Mika Vormoo (1 deal), Thomas Wolf (1 deal), Illusian Founder Office (1 deal) and 20VC (1 deal).