All AI startup cases
Every AI startup case study in the library: idea, stack, marketing, pricing and sourced revenue figures. 20 cases.
- Arcads Arcads generates user-generated-content style video ads with AI actors. Arcads revenue: the founder told Latka in Nov 2025 it had $10M ARR and 6,000+ customers. Marketing & Advertising · SaaS · 2024 ≈$833K/month, implied from $10M ARR
- Base44 The Base44 acquisition: Maor Shlomo bootstrapped the AI app builder and sold it to Wix for $80M in cash six months after starting. It later passed $100M ARR. Developer Tools · SaaS · 2025 ≈$8.3M/month, implied from ~$100M ARR
- Bolt.new (StackBlitz) StackBlitz had under $1M ARR before launching Bolt.new, an in-browser AI app builder. Bolt.new revenue reached $4M ARR in about four weeks. Developer Tools · SaaS · 2018 ≈$333K/month, implied from $4M ARR
- Cal AI Two teenagers built Cal AI, a calorie app that estimates nutrition from a photo. Cal AI revenue topped $40M in trailing-12-month sales at the March 2026 MyFitnessPal deal. Health & Fitness · Mobile-Health · 2024 Monthly revenue: Not disclosed
- Chatbase Yasser Elsaid built Chatbase as a student, letting anyone train a chatbot on their documents. Chatbase revenue went from $0 to $64K MRR in about three months. Customer Support · SaaS · 2023 $64,000 MRR
- Formula Bot (formerly Excel Formula Bot) David Bressler built Excel Formula Bot on Bubble and OpenAI while working a full-time job. Formula Bot revenue reached $3.3K MRR and 1.6K paying users within months. Productivity · Tool · 2022 $3.3K MRR
- Gamma Gamma makes AI-generated presentations, documents and websites. Gamma AI revenue passed $100M ARR with about 50 people; it says it has been profitable for two years. Productivity · SaaS · 2020 ≈$8.3M/month, implied from $100M ARR
- HeadshotPro Danny Postma's HeadshotPro makes studio-style business headshots from selfies. How it started, its model pipeline, and what is publicly known about HeadshotPro revenue. Careers & HR · SaaS · 2023 Monthly revenue: Not disclosed
- Interior AI Interior AI turns a photo of a room into redesigned versions in different styles. Built by Pieter Levels in 2022; Interior AI revenue is not reliably disclosed. Real Estate & Home · SaaS · 2022 Monthly revenue: Not disclosed
- Jenni AI Jenni AI went from a general AI writer to an academic writing assistant, and Jenni AI revenue grew to more than $10M ARR with a small team. Education · SaaS · Year n/d ≈$833K/month, implied from $10M+ ARR
- Lovable Lovable grew out of the open-source GPT Engineer project, and Lovable ARR was reported passing $100M eight months after reaching its first $1M. Developer Tools · SaaS · 2023 ≈$8.3M/month, implied from $100M ARR
- Merlin (Foyer) Merlin brings ChatGPT-style answers, summaries and writing help into every web page as a Chrome extension with over a million users. Merlin AI revenue is not disclosed. Productivity · Browser extension · Year n/d Monthly revenue: Not disclosed
- OpusClip OpusClip uses AI to cut long videos into short clips. After pivoting from livestreaming tools, it reported Opus Clip revenue of nearly $20M ARR by March 2025. Creative & Media · SaaS · 2022 ≈$1.7M/month, implied from ~$20M ARR (unverified)
- PDF.ai Damon Chen bought a premium domain and launched PDF.ai, a chat-with-your-documents tool. PDF.ai revenue was about $25K in a single month in 2023. Productivity · SaaS · 2023 $25,070 revenue in September 2023
- Photo AI Photo AI revenue passed $100K a month in September 2024, Pieter Levels reported, from a one-person AI photo studio that grew out of an avatar experiment. Creative & Media · SaaS · 2023 $100K+/month (monthly revenue; founder notes it is not strict MRR)
- SiteGPT Bhanu Teja turned a side feature into SiteGPT, a chatbot trained on a company's website. SiteGPT revenue passed $10K MRR in its first month. Customer Support · SaaS · 2023 ~$15K MRR
- Suno Suno lets anyone create full songs from a text prompt. Its CEO put Suno AI revenue at $300M in annual revenue, with 2 million paid subscribers, in February 2026. Creative & Media · SaaS · 2022 ≈$25M/month, implied from $300M ARR
- Tweet Hunter Tweet Hunter helped creators write and schedule tweets with AI and a viral-tweet library. It hit $150K ARR in four months; the Tweet Hunter acquisition by Lempire came in 2022. Marketing & Advertising · SaaS · 2021 Monthly revenue: Not disclosed
- TypingMind Tony Dinh's TypingMind is a bring-your-own-API-key chat interface for AI models. TypingMind revenue passed $500K in total in about a year. Productivity · SaaS · 2023 Monthly revenue: Not disclosed
- Umax Blake Anderson's Umax scores selfies and suggests improvements. For Umax app revenue, Fortune reported about $500K a month (founder claim, unverified) in 2024. Beauty & Lifestyle · Mobile-Lifestyle · 2023 ~$500K/month subscription revenue (unverified founder claim)