- Founders: Vishal Virani, Rahul Shingala, Deepak Dhanak
- Sector: Artificial Intelligence
- Location: Palo Alto, CA & Surat, India
The Opportunity
The AI coding revolution is here. “Vibe coding” tools have emerged with the ambitious promise of democratizing software creation. These platforms have attracted users with their ability to generate the initial version of an application from a simple text prompt in minutes, instead of weeks or months.
However, while first-generation vibe coding tools are phenomenal for prototyping, they frequently fall short on the critical “Day 2” challenges of iteration, maintenance, and deployment. Users can get stuck in frustrating “doom loops,” where fixing one AI-generated bug creates a cascade of new ones. The underlying code quality can lack the architectural rigor needed for a scalable, production-grade application, and application security & durability is often an afterthought, not a default.
In short, there’s a significant gap between the initial “wow” factor and the reliability required to build and sustain a real business. The industry needs to evolve beyond disposable scaffolding tools to a true, end-to-end development partner that supports the entire software lifecycle.
Enter, Rocket 🚀
The Solution
Rocket (also known as “Rocket.new”) is a next-generation AI development platform engineered from the ground up to solve not just the “Day 1” problem, but the entire software lifecycle. The Rocket team calls this “#Vibe Solutioning”— moving beyond simple page generation to creating complete, functional, and production-grade applications that are built to last.
Rocket’s architecture creates a significant and defensible technological moat:
- Intelligent Code Generation: Rocket’s architecture is built on atomic design principles and enterprise-grade patterns. This means the platform doesn’t just produce code; it generates an intelligent, self-documenting, and well-structured codebase. This foundation is critical, as it enables both AI agents and human developers to understand, modify, and iterate on the application with precision, avoiding the “spaghetti code” that can plague other generators.
- Proprietary Data Advantage: The platform is trained on a unique and massive corpus of 10 million Figma-to-code pairs from the team’s previous company, Dhiwise. This meticulously annotated dataset gives Rocket a distinct advantage in generating higher-fidelity and more architecturally sound UI code than tools trained on generic public data
- Sophisticated Orchestration: At its core, Rocket utilizes a multi-agent system that intelligently deconstructs a user’s high-level request into a series of detailed sub-prompts. This system orchestrates code generation across multiple frameworks (like Next.js, React, and Flutter for native mobile apps) and merges the outputs into a single, cohesive application. A continuous Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) pipeline systematically improves the quality and reliability of the output over time.
Rocket’s impressive architecture allows it to deliver on a much bigger promise: turning a single prompt into a complete, multi-screen, functional and reliable application.
Why We’re Backing Rocket
Our conviction in Rocket is built on three core pillars: a deeply technical team, a technologically superior product, and a capital-efficient path to solving one of the market’s most critical problems.
First and foremost, we believe in co-founders Vishal Virani, Rahul Shingala and Deepak Dhanak. They bring a rare combination of deep technical expertise, product vision, and a proven ability to drive growth. This comes from their years of experience running a software consulting company, where they learned firsthand how to build scalable, production-grade software from the ground up for large enterprise customers in over 30 countries. That global experience deeply influenced their philosophy, grounding them in the first principles of developing durable, architecturally sound solutions built for scale. This technical discipline is coupled with a relentless hustle that comes from their background of growing up in a small town in India, where resourcefulness and focus are essential. Adding to this strength, Rahul Ramkumar has joined as founding Chief Product Officer & GTM Lead, bringing over a decade of experience scaling AI-driven commerce and product platforms at Walmart & Flipkart. His product and go-to-market leadership amplifies the co-founders’ technical depth, further raising the team’s talent density.
We find Rocket’s leadership to be thoughtful, disciplined, collaborative, and on an incredibly fast learning curve — exactly the kind of founders Salesforce Ventures loves to partner with.
Second, in the AI coding space, product performance is the only thing that matters; loyalty is low and the best technology always wins. Customer feedback consistently validates that Rocket is that better product. Users are successfully building complex, high-value applications for e-commerce, healthcare, and HR tech, achieving 85-90% completion on what would otherwise be year-long projects. Rocket’s ability to handle complexity where other tools fail is a direct result of its superior architecture.
Finally, we believe Rocket is uniquely positioned to solve the “Day 2 problem.” The platform was designed from day one for “solutioning,” not just prototyping. The team brings decades of combined experience building software from the ground up, giving them a deep understanding of the entire software stack. They know that true software development isn’t just about writing code; it’s about orchestrating the right services with the right context and business logic to deliver a complete solution. This philosophy is the very foundation of Rocket. By solving this challenge, Rocket is on a path to deliver enduring value, fostering deep customer loyalty and securing the enterprise partnerships that will define market leadership.
What’s Ahead?
Having started 4 months ago, Rocket has already achieved millions in ARR with remarkable capital efficiency — but this is just the beginning. This new funding round will allow the team to deepen their product to support the full software lifecycle, establish a stronger U.S. presence, and accelerate their roadmap of unifying the fragmented process of software development into a single, efficient solutioning engine.
Rocket’s long-term vision is ambitious: to build the AI-native platform for the entire software development lifecycle and empower a billion AI-native humans by 2030. We believe the path to this incredible scale is through the enterprise. We see a clear roadmap for Rocket to expand upmarket by delivering the robust security, governance, and deployment capabilities that large organizations require, complemented by a strong partner ecosystem.
All in, we’re thrilled to lead Rocket’s $15M funding round alongside our friends at Accel and Together Fund. We’re incredibly excited to support Vishal, Rahul, Deepak and the entire team as they build a category-defining company.
Welcome to Salesforce Ventures, Rocket!
