What it is
Rork builds native mobile apps from a prompt and gets them onto the App Store — the part of the stack the browser-based builders do not reach.
Its two founders launched on Steve Jobs's birthday with $15,000 of credit-card debt between them and one of them sleeping on a friend's mattress in San Francisco. A viral post two weeks later brought $200K of ARR and a16z.
Timeline
- 24 Feb 2025Launched on Steve Jobs's birthday, with $15,000 of credit-card debt.
- 16 Mar 2025$200K ARR, two weeks in.
- 5 May 2025$2.8M seed led by a16z Speedrun.
- 10 Apr 2026$15M round led by Left Lane Capital.
Founders
Built Russia's largest educational timetable app at 17 and took it past two million users.
How it broke out
A post on X about what they had built did the work, and the funding followed it rather than the other way round. The founders were close to broke when it went out.
Paid advertising
We have not checked this app for paid advertising yet. That is not the same as finding none.
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