Atech, a Copenhagen-based startup, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round from Nordic Makers, Emblem, Lovable, the Sequoia Scout Fund, and the a16z Scout Fund. The company is building a 'vibe-engineering' platform for hardware that lets users describe a physical device concept in natural language and receive a working prototype. Lovable CEO Anton Osika personally endorsed the team, drawing a direct parallel to what Lovable did for web app development. The article notes that scout fund participation from Sequoia and a16z is primarily a signalling value rather than a direct institutional investment. Atech's core thesis is that hardware development lacks the abstraction layers software has, and the company aims to close that gap — though the challenge is significantly harder than software given the physical consequences of errors.
