Emergent Raises $23M to Democratize Software Creation With AI-Powered Vibe Coding

Co-Founders of Emergent - Mukund Jha & Madhav Jha

Emergent, the fast-growing agentic vibe-coding platform today announced $23 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from Together Fund, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, and leading angels including Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, and Balaji Srinivasan. This brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including a $7 million seed round backed by Y Combinator and Together Fund. Funds will be utilized to grow the team, deepen investments in research and to grow the platform.

The platform enables anyone, whether a small business owner, solo founder or creator to build and launch full-fledged, production-ready software without writing a single line of code. Emergent gives you a ready-to-use app from day one. It handles everything - from the screens people see, to the servers, logins, payments, and the ability to scale the platform - automatically. Behind the scenes, a team of specialised AI agents code, test and launch, so it feels like you have your own development team in the cloud.

In India, where 6 out of 10 people consider entrepreneurship as a good career path, Emergent eliminates the historical barriers of needing capital, developers, or a technical co-founder. The platform makes software creation possible for those who previously lacked the tools to build. Emergent’s core technology including its AI coding agent and the infrastructure to support rapid deployment was built entirely in-house to ensure security, speed and reliability. The product works out-of-the-box: users get an app that’s ready to launch, with logins, payments, backend, and scaling automatically taken care of. Thus, marking a structural shift in who gets to create software and who benefits from it.

The product has already gained rapid adoption: in just 90 days, Emergent has surpassed $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and enabled over one million users to build more than 1.5 million apps.

“My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone to create software affordably,” shared Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO. “Emergent addresses the technical friction of starting or growing a business. Now anyone from small business owners and aspiring founders to creators can now 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.”

"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," explained Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed.

Emergent’s impact is already visible across a wide range of users globally: a jewellery store owner in Michigan built an app to manage pricing across 50 stores and is now selling that app to others; a small business digitized wheelchair inventory tracking using photos and prompts; a person living with chronic pain built their own app to manage it better; and a UK-based founder of Indian origin created an EV marketplace app to serve a growing market.

Emergent is available at https://emergent.sh/ allowing anyone to start building apps for their businesses, ideas, or communities, instantly.

About Emergent:

Emergent is the fast-growing agentic vibe-coding platform. Its platform enables anyone to build full-stack, production-ready applications using autonomous AI agents. Launched in 2025 and backed by Lightspeed, Prosus, YC, Together, and leading angels, the company has reached $15M in ARR within 90 days of launch. Emergent’s mission is to democratize software creation so that anyone can turn ideas into products.

About Lightspeed:

Lightspeed is a leading global multi-stage investment firm, investing across venture to late-stage growth, with a focus on accelerating disruptive innovations in AI, Enterprise, Financial Services, Consumer, Health, and B2B. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs building some of the most innovative and category-defining companies in the world.

Globally, Lightspeed has invested in more than 500 companies, including Anthropic, Affirm, Anduril, Epic Games, Nutanix, Snapchat, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Rubrik, Wiz, Oyo, Zepto, Udaan, Razorpay, PocketFM, Physics Wallah and many others. Today, Lightspeed and its global team manage over $30 billion in AUM across its platform, with investment professionals and advisors based in the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia. Lightspeed began investing in India in 2008, with a portfolio that now spans both early-stage startups and growth-stage market leaders. www.lsip.com