Stockholm-based Newly (formerly Natively), a mobile app development company, has raised over $2 million to date in funding to accelerate its growth and broaden access to native app development. The round was led by PSV Tech, with participation from Karaoke Club, Wave Ventures, Inception Fund, Foundry Ventures, Tiny Supercomputing Investment Company, and a group of prominent angel investors, including Fredrik Björk, Mattias Miksche, Sebastian Knutsson, Peter Carlsson, Joseph Michael, Wilhelm Bohlin, Alfred Wahlforss, and Mandeep Singh.
While AI has significantly simplified web development, making it easier than ever to launch landing pages, SaaS tools, and online stores, native mobile development has remained comparatively inaccessible. The complexity of building for iOS and Android, navigating app store requirements, and maintaining performance at scale has continued to limit development to specialised teams.
Newly aims to address this gap by enabling users to build, iterate, and launch fully functional, compliant mobile applications without coding. Its platform combines agentic AI systems with advanced mobile-native tooling, allowing teams to move from concept to an App Store–ready product significantly faster and at lower cost than traditional approaches.
Founder and CEO Timothy Lindblom describes the shift as one that reduces development timelines “from months to hours”, reducing friction between idea and execution. He notes that native mobile apps have historically been out of reach for many founders due to cost and complexity, a barrier that Newly seeks to remove.
The company plans to use the new funding to further develop its platform and expand beyond mobile into other native formats, including desktop software, augmented reality experiences, and wearable applications.
