Wabi

Wabi is an AI app company founded by Eugenia Kuyda, the creator of the Replika AI companion. It began as a platform where people write a text prompt to build a mini-app and share it with friends, and has since repositioned itself as a messenger that builds apps and handles tasks for users and their friends.

Kuyda founded Replika in 2017; TechCrunch describes it as the first major AI companion startup, with 35 million users. She stepped down as its CEO and started Wabi, which opened in beta in October 2025. At launch she called it a "YouTube for apps": creation, discovery and hosting in one place with no app store, plus likes, comments, remixing and profiles.

Wabi raised a $20 million pre-seed round in 2025, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with angels including Naval Ravikant, Garry Tan, Justin Kan, Amjad Masad, Akshay Kothari, DJ Seo, Shruti Gandhi and Sarah Guo. On 28 September 2026 the company announced "a new kind of messenger", invite-only with an iOS waitlist, and its site now describes it as an AI assistant people use together, to plan trips, book stays and turn chats into games.