đź“ť Base44 sells for $80M

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Liam Gill
June 19, 2025

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Base44’s $80 million sale to Wix is the clearest real-world signal yet that solo or near-solo “unicorns” might not be so mythical after all. Founded just six months ago by Israeli developer Maor Shlomo—with no outside funding and only eight employees—Base44 rocketed to 250,000 users and $189,000 in monthly profits by May, powered by a viral presence on Twitter and LinkedIn. The platform lets anyone build full-featured software apps using plain English prompts, a core “vibe-coding” promise that’s become hot in AI startup circles. While not truly a solo act or a unicorn, Base44’s scale, velocity, and exit valuation drew outsized attention for a startup of its age and size. The $80 million cash deal included $25 million in retention bonuses for employees. For Wix, the acquisition brings AI-native app-building muscle to its no-code toolkit. For Shlomo, who previously co-founded the data startup Explorium and whose brother runs an AI security company, the sale was a pragmatic leap to scale with support. His journey—scrappy, public, profitable—offers a modern founder archetype: not mythical, just massively leveraged by LLMs.

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