Emergent has announced the completion of a Series A funding round, raising an impressive $23 million. This significant investment is set to further Emergent’s mission of empowering a wider range of individuals to establish and manage their own businesses effortlessly. The funding round was lde by Lightspeed with participation from other notable investors, including YC, Together, and Prosus. Additionally, several leading figures in the field of artificial intelligence contributed, such as Jeff Dean and Srinivasan Venkatachary from Google, Devendra Chaplot from Thinking Machines, Siqi Chen from Runway, Prasanna from Rippling, Edo Liberty from Pinecone, and Balaji Srinivasan. This latest funding round brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million.
The company is dedicated to developing an innovative platform that enables anyone, regardless of their technical background, to create fully functional and production-ready applications with the assistance of intelligent, autonomous AI agents.
In today’s dynamic economic landscape, a vast majority of Americans —approximately three out of four —have contemplated starting their own businesses. However, for many decades, the process of building software has been a formidable challenge, typically requiring extensive coding knowledge, substantial capital, or the collaboration of a technically skilled co-founder. These significant hurdles have unfortunately prevented countless innovative ideas, ranging from simple side hustles to complex small business workflows and deeply personal passion projects, from ever progressing beyond the initial brainstorming stage.
Emergent was designed to overcome these barriers, making it accessible to everyone, not just seasoned developers, product managers, or designers. The platform effectively eliminates bureaucratic complexities and technical demands, allowing anyone to transform their concepts into high-quality, production-grade applications using autonomous agents, all without requiring prior technical expertise. This represents a profound and transformative shift in who has the opportunity to create software and, consequently, who ultimately benefits from these technological advancements.
Emergent is already making a tangible impact, actively empowering individuals to bring their visions to life. The platform has seen tremendous adoption, with over a million people collectively building more than 1.5 million applications, and this number continues to grow steadily. For example, a jewelry store owner in Michigan leveraged Emergent to develop an application that streamlined the process for her staff to price repairs across her fifty store locations accurately. This innovative solution proved so effective that she is now successfully selling her software to other jewelry stores. In another instance, a small business utilized Emergent to create an application for managing their wheelchair inventory.
This has replaced cumbersome spreadsheets, allowing staff to take a photo, answer a few straightforward questions, and rapidly onboard new wheelchairs into their system. A user who lives with chronic pain, having tried numerous pain management applications that consistently fell short of his specific needs, has now built his own personalized app to manage his condition better and assist others facing similar challenges. Furthermore, an aspiring entrepreneur in the United Kingdom, who previously worked as a product manager, used Emergent to develop an electric vehicle marketplace application, strategically positioning himself to capitalize on the country’s rapidly expanding EV market.
Emergent is designed to provide users with a ready-to-use application from the very first day. The platform comprehensively manages all aspects of the application, both on the front-end and back-end, automatically handling everything from the user interface screens to the underlying servers, login functionalities, payment processing, and the crucial ability to scale the platform as needed. Behind the scenes, a dedicated team of specialized artificial intelligence agents meticulously handles the coding, testing, and launching processes, essentially providing users with their very own cloud-based development team. These intelligent agents are capable of identifying and rectifying issues, working seamlessly across extended sessions, and retaining memory of the specific project a user is building. Both the core coding agent and the entire supporting infrastructure required for app development were meticulously built in-house from the ground up, ensuring unparalleled reliability, speed, and security for all users.
Emergent has also announced a significant achievement: the company has generated over $15 million in annual recurring revenue within just ninety days of its launch. This extraordinary growth positions Emergent as one of the fastest-growing startups globally.
KEY QUOTES:
“My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone to create software affordably. Emergent addresses the technical friction of starting or growing a business. Now, anyone from small business owners and aspiring founders to creators can bring their vision to life, no matter how complex, at a fraction of the time and cost. As the only vibe coding platform that enables users to build highly customizable, production-ready apps, our platform unlocks new possibilities for everyone – not just software engineers.”
Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO
“Remember when photography demanded understanding lenses, aperture, lighting, film development, and more? Then the iPhone compressed all of it into a single button for billions of people. Emergent collapses the complexity of software into a single button anyone can press to ship, scale, earn and Lightspeed is proud to back them on this exciting journey.”
Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed
