Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Back Emergent’s $70M Series B as 5M+ Users Build AI Apps Worldwide

• Emergent’s ARR has grown from $100K to $50 million in just seven months, driven by more than 5 million users worldwide

Emergent, the fast-growing AI software creation platform that helps anyone build full-stack, production-ready web and mobile applications, announced it has raised $70 million in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Prosus, Lightspeed, Together, and Y Combinator. In total, Emergent has now raised $100 million within seven months of launch. The funding comes as more than 5 million users are already building and shipping real products on Emergent across more than 190 countries.

The funds will be deployed to fuel continued team expansion, accelerate product development, and drive entry into new markets, as demand for AI-powered software creation surges among entrepreneurs and small businesses globally. The backing from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 reflects growing confidence in Emergent’s long-term vision and execution.

In just seven months, Emergent has scaled to $50 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and is on track to surpass $100 million ARR by April 2026, cementing its position among the fastest-growing AI companies worldwide and the fastest-scaling technology startup in India by revenue.

Emergent’s Series B comes less than three months after its Series A, marking one of the fastest Series A–to–Series B progressions in the category. The round also follows Google’s recent backing of Emergent, underscoring strong validation from leading global technology and capital partners. Notably, the investment marks SoftBank’s return to AI investments in India, signalling renewed conviction in the country’s next wave of AI-led companies.

Software creation is undergoing a structural shift,” said Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO of Emergent. “It used to be that only people with technical training or capital got to turn ideas into real products. Emergent flips that model. We are seeing millions of people build and ship real businesses, workflows, and products in days. As a result, many are generating new sources of income. By helping everyday people build and monetize their ideas, Emergent is stepping in to power the most crucial segment of the economy – small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Emergent is growing at a pace we rarely see because it is tapping into a segment that has never been served,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures. “When barriers to software creation fall this quickly, behavior changes across industries, not just within the technology sector. Emergent is early in shaping how software gets created and monetized over the next decade, not just the next product cycle, and its users are quick to share their success.

Emergent is harnessing AI to unlock a massive wave of entrepreneurship by removing the technical and capital barriers that have historically limited who can build software,” said Sarthak Misra, Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. We are excited to partner with Mukund, Madhav and the Emergent team on a shared vision to help entrepreneurs worldwide turn ideas into businesses.

Emergent works like a full development team with agents that design, build, test, and scale software end to end. The result is real, dependable software built in a fraction of the time and cost, giving both established and first-time business owners the speed, confidence, and leverage of the world’s most advanced technology companies, without the overhead. Most importantly, business builders can monetize their creation, going from idea to cash flow in hours. Emergent produces production-grade software, engineered to ship, paired with Stripe and other built-in billing providers, so your product is monetization-ready on launch.

Emergent is available at https://emergent.sh/, enabling anyone to start building and launching applications instantly.

About Emergent:

Emergent is the fast-growing platform that lets anyone create full-stack, production-ready applications using autonomous AI agents. Emergent’s vision is to enable ambitious people to move at the speed of their thought — to build faster, go bigger, and be unblocked from technical limitations. Launched in 2025, Emergent is backed by Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, YC, Prosus, Together, and Google’s AI Futures Fund. Its mission is to democratize who gets to build software and bring new ideas to life.

PropTech Startup Ivy Homes Raises $7 Mn in Seed Funding Round From Khosla Ventures, Venture Highway, and Others

Ivy Homes Co-founders (Pritam Thakur & Abhialash Narahari)

Ivy Homes raises $7 million in seed funding round from Khosla Ventures, Venture Highway, and other leading VC firms

The funds will be utilised to build product and expand the team

Ivy Homes, a new-age prop-tech startup that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide instant liquidity to sellers, has raised $5.75 million in equity and $1.3 million in debt in a seed round of funding. The round saw participation from leading investors, including Khosla Ventures, Venture Highway, Y Combinator, GFC, Foundamental, Better Capital, and Titan Capital.

Ivy Homes makes instant offers to buy homes using AI and Machine Learning. It uses a machine-learning-based pricing algorithm to forecast the fair market value of a property based on more than 50 parameters. As a result, Ivy Homes serves a fairly vast market that has remained relatively unchanged in recent years. It provides a substantially more convenient option to selling by handling the whole process while also enhancing the experience of home purchasers for resale homes.

Speaking on occasion, Abhilash Narahari, Co-founder, Ivy Homes said, “The funding that we have raised is a big step toward realising our mission to deliver transparent solutions to the real estate sector. With our unique data and pricing engine, we aim transform what is a complex, painful and month-long ordeal into a transparent and predictable process.”

Pritam Thakur, Co-founder, Ivy Homes says, “Home selling is such a large problem to solve, and we believe the best way to deliver a superior customer experience is by being fully transactional.”

Commenting on the Ivy Homes fundraise, Priya Mohan, Partner at Venture Highway, said, “As the first institutional investors, we are excited to back founders who solve complex problems and deliver category-creating solutions. Abhilash and Pritam bring a combination of domain, previous start-up and tech experience, and in this we saw a strong founder-market fit. We believe Ivy Homes has the opportunity to create a tech-driven ‘never before seen’ customer experience for home sellers and buyers."

AI & WhatsApp based Hiring Platform Vahan Raises Funding from Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and Pioneer Fund

Bangalore headquartered Vahan.ai, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and WhatsApp to help companies hire blue collared employees, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and Pioneer Fund, reported Economic Times citing a top executive from the company.

The funds raised will be used by Vahan for scaling and expansion.

Founded in 2016, by Madhav Krishna, Vahan is backed by Y Combinator and leverage Machine Learning algorithms to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps (currently WhatsApp). The startup counts Zomato, Swiggy, Dunzo and Domino's among its clientele.

Madhav, who is an alumnus of Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology of Delhi, has been part of Y Combinator 2019 batch to built an AI-driven virtual assistant integrated with WhatsApp to help businesses automate various aspects of workforce engagement. We specialize in high volume recruitment of on-demand workers.

In a statement to ET, Madhav said Vahan has 1.4 million users, and claimed it had helped 25,000 of them find blue-collared jobs. “We connect blue-collared job seekers to employers who need access to labour,” he said.

Vahan is backed by number prolific of angel investors such as Gokul Rajaram, Godfather of AdSense; Mekin Maheshwari, Former Head of Engineering at Flipkart; and Vir Kashyap, Co-founder of Babajob.

How Vahan.ai Works

Unskilled to semi-skilled job seekers gets on WhatsApp, adds Vahan.ai to his contact list and messages the account for job listings. the candidate simply needs to send a "hi" message to Vahan’s phone number on WhatsApp following which its bot qualifies them, answers their questions and even schedules an interview. The messaging bot of Vahan asks them to give the location. The bot then looks for jobs in the vicinity of the applicant and throws back results. Job seker then answer a few questions, take a short quiz, schedule a job interview.

As many job applicants also write Hindi in English (Hinglish), Vahan's technology can understand that as well and the messaging bot can translate Hindi to English. The bot asks the applicants to upload their driver’s licence, verifies it against government databases, and requests them to upload their CV via WhatsApp. The CV is then sent to

Bengaluru-based Digital KYC Startup Veri5 Digital Raises $2 Mn from Khosla Ventures

Vinod Khosla-led Khosla Ventures has invested USD 2 million in the Bengaluru-based digital solutions maker Veri5 Digital.

"Veri5Digital has built innovative AI solutions around KYC and authentication which address the online, digital identity needs of companies globally," Khosla said.

Vei5Digital will utilise the capital to rapidly scale its identity solutions for the India market as well as build new Identity and Digital India related products and services, the firm said.

Formerly known as AadhaarBridge, Veri5 is a software services provider from Khosla Labs, a Khosla Ventures backed company that offers Digital India services (Govt. and Regulated systems) for the private sector. The solution offered by the startup ranges from Identification, Verification, Payments, Signatures, India Stack Products and deploy them on cloud and on premise basis customer requirements.

Veri5 prpovides Aadhaar based API platform (Authentication, eKYC, eSign, eNACH, DigiLocker, BBPS, GST) that allows organisations to easily integrate Aadhaar into their existing applications without the need of a separate UIDAI license.

According to the company website, Veri5 solution have enabled authentication for over 10 million transactions for 250+ businesses across banking, insurance, lending, internet and service based companies, and mutual fund houses.

About Khosla Labs, it is a startup incubator and innovation lab focused on solving large scale problems driven by technology and entrepreneurial zeal.

Healthcare Startup Doctalk Raises $5 Mn Via Khosla Ventures and Matrix Partners

Health-care startup DocTalk, an app which allows doctors and patients to stay in touch and skip in-person follow-on visits, has raised $5 million in its first institutional round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture fund Khosla Ventures and Matrix Partners India.

Mumbai headquartered Doctalk, which is backed by Y Combinator-backed earlier, also saw participation from other Silicon Valley investors like Liquid2 Ventures, Altair Capital, YS partner Paul Buchheit who created Gmail, Arihant Patni, Apoorva Patni, Vy Capital, among others.

The startup plans to use latest raised capital to expand its team and on board hospital chains on its platform.

Founded in 2016 by Akshat Goenka, Krishna Chaitanya Aluru and Vamsee Chamarkura, DocTalk is a mobile app that allows its users to connect with doctor and skip the hassle of an in-person visit. Users can chat with their doctors, obtain prescriptions and share new reports with their doctors. The startup claims to have about 500 doctors using its services serving about 30,000 patients.

At present DocTalk has operations in Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Akshat Goenka, co-founder and CEO, of DocTalk said, "We are looking to hire across departments such as sales, operations and technology as we plan to expand into new cities. We also have to develop a deeper presence in our existing markets."

Unlike other health apps like Practo, Doctalk is not solving the problem of discovery of doctors. Its instead simplifying and improving doctors' lives by giving them complete control over their patient communication and practice.

The startup aims to address the doctor-patient communication problem giving doctors the chance to engage with patients post consultation as well.

7 Biggest VCs In The World

Venture Capitalist firms are considered very important in the startup world. One can always look forward to a VC firm to raise funds for their startup. Venture Capitalists are people who invest in early stage businesses that have a high potential to grow in future. They traditionally receive equity in the startup business in return for funding it. However, nowadays, the trend involves demanding a mixture of debt financing and equity.

Venture Capital Funds come with a number of advantages over any other funding methods for startups. They inject long term equity finance which acts as a solid capital base for future growth. They even act as a business partner, who shares both the risks and rewards of the business.  In addition to this, Venture Capitalist funds are high on practical knowledge and advice from their past experiences with other companies. They also come with a network of contacts that can add value to your startup.

We at IndianWeb2 have put together a list of seven biggest Venture Capitalists in the World.

1. 
   

   Sequoia Capital-

   
   Founded in November, 1972 by Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital helps young entrepreneurs build successful companies. The Menlo Park, California based company helps the entrepreneurs in pushing the envelope and doing things out of the box. The companies partnering with Sequoia benefit from its unmatched community and the lessons that they have learned from their experiences in the last forty years of working with some of the big names in the biz world including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Drew Houston, Jerry Yang and Larry Ellison, among many others.
   
   In aggregate, Sequoia Capital backed companies make up for more than twenty percent of NASDAQ’s total value.
   
   Portfolio -
   On the international front, the VC has invested in Vasan Health Care, Micromax and MuSigma. Closer home, Sequoia was one of the most active venture funds in the year 2014. The company made fresh tech investments in OlaCabs and mobile gaming startup Octro, among others.


2. 
   

   Benchmark Capital -

   
   Benchmark is a San Francisco based Venture Capital firm that was founded by Bob Kagle in the year 1995. It is an early stage venture capital firm that focuses on local, social, cloud and mobile companies that disrupt various industries. The firm has its offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, California. Since 1995, the firm has invested in more than two hundred startups with its market value exceeding a whopping $ 100 billion.
   
   Portfolio -
   The San Francisco based Venture Capital firm is famous for its commitment towards open source. It is also recognized for creating the first equal compensation and ownership structure for its partners. Its investments have included Instagram, Friendster, eBay, AOL and Uber, among many other.


3. 
   

   Khosla Ventures -

   
   This Menlo Park, California headquartered Venture Capital firm was founded by Vinod Khosla, in the year 2004. The firm aims to provide strategic advice and venture assistance to young entrepreneurs working on revolutionary technologies. The California based company has over 4 billion dollars under management. The firm does seed, Private Equity, Early stage venture, Post Ipo Equty, Debt Financing and later stage Venture investments.
   
   Portfolio -
   Khosla Ventures mainly focuses on investing in environmentally friendly technologies. It also makes investments in traditional venture areas like silicon, mobile, internet and computing technology arenas. Its major investments include Panzura, Amyris and EcoMotors.


4. 
   

   General Catalyst -

   
   Founded by David Orfao, Bill Fitzgerald, David Fialkow and Joel Cutler in 2000, General Catalyst is a Cambridge, MA headquartered Venture Capital firm. The firm is famous for making growth equity and early stage investments. The firm focuses on innovative technology companies working towards building products that have the potential to transform industries. The firm uses it broad experience to help entrepreneurs in building market leading businesses. It has offices in New York, Cambridge, CA, MA and Palo Alto.
   
   The firm’s tagline “Entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs” echoes its mission. The Cambridge, MA based firm believes the entrepreneurial background of its partners is its singular asset.
   
   Portfolio -
   The first has made invested in innovative technology companies like Stripe, Snapchat and Air BnB, among many others.


5. 
   

   Accel Partners -

   
   Founded in January,1983, Accel Partners is a global venture capital firm that does seed, debt financing, early stage venture, later stage venture, private equity and grant investments. The Palo Alto, CA headquartered firm has its offices in India, New York, China, Silicon Valley and London. They are famous for making multi-stage investments in internet technology based companies. The firm has over six billion dollars under management and has invested in companies like Facebook, Dropbox and Mu Sigma.
   
   Accel with over 12 investments ended up making the highest number of tech investments last year.
   
   Portfolio -
   The Silicon Valley fund was one of the earliest investors in ecommerce giant Flipkart. The fund had invested a whopping $1 million in Flipkart back then in 2009.


6. 
   

   Andreessen Horowitz -

   
   Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz is a $ 4 billion, Menlo Park, California headquartered Venture Capital firm. The 2009 established firm does debt financing, seed, early stage ventures, later stage ventures and private equity investments. The firm was ranked number one venture capital firm in 2011 by Investor Rank. The rank was based on its networks and level of syndication with other venture capital firms.
   
   The California based company made its first investment back in 2009, in Apptio, a technology business management SaaS developer. In 2011, it became the first venture capital firm to have a stock in four of the highest valued, privately owned social media companies of that year: Twitter, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.
   
   Portfolio -
   The venture capital firm recently announced investments in Distelli, an information technology automation company and Stack Exchange.  Its major investments include Skype and Foursquare.


7. 
   

   New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

   
   Founded by Frank Bonsal, Richard C. Kramlich and Chuck Newhall in 1977, NEA is one of the largest and most active venture capital firm in the world. The firm is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and Menlo Park, California. It also has its offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Baltimore, Shanghai, New York, Beijing and Boston.
   
   The global venture capital firm focuses on investment in information technology, energy technology and health care companies. The firm invests between $ 1million and $ 50 million in companies that differ in terms of both sector and stage.
   
   Portfolio -
   The firm’s current portfolio includes MongoDB, Buzzfeed, Hearsay Social, Houzz and Intarcia Therapeutics.

7 Biggest VCs In The World

Venture Capitalist firms are considered very important in the startup world. One can always look forward to a VC firm to raise funds for their startup. Venture Capitalists are people who invest in early stage businesses that have a high potential to grow in future. They traditionally receive equity in the startup business in return for funding it. However, nowadays, the trend involves demanding a mixture of debt financing and equity.

Venture Capital Funds come with a number of advantages over any other funding methods for startups. They inject long term equity finance which acts as a solid capital base for future growth. They even act as a business partner, who shares both the risks and rewards of the business.  In addition to this, Venture Capitalist funds are high on practical knowledge and advice from their past experiences with other companies. They also come with a network of contacts that can add value to your startup.

We at IndianWeb2 have put together a list of seven biggest Venture Capitalists in the World.

1. 
   

   Sequoia Capital-

   
   Founded in November, 1972 by Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital helps young entrepreneurs build successful companies. The Menlo Park, California based company helps the entrepreneurs in pushing the envelope and doing things out of the box. The companies partnering with Sequoia benefit from its unmatched community and the lessons that they have learned from their experiences in the last forty years of working with some of the big names in the biz world including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Drew Houston, Jerry Yang and Larry Ellison, among many others.
   
   In aggregate, Sequoia Capital backed companies make up for more than twenty percent of NASDAQ’s total value.
   
   Portfolio -
   On the international front, the VC has invested in Vasan Health Care, Micromax and MuSigma. Closer home, Sequoia was one of the most active venture funds in the year 2014. The company made fresh tech investments in OlaCabs and mobile gaming startup Octro, among others.


2. 
   

   Benchmark Capital -

   
   Benchmark is a San Francisco based Venture Capital firm that was founded by Bob Kagle in the year 1995. It is an early stage venture capital firm that focuses on local, social, cloud and mobile companies that disrupt various industries. The firm has its offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, California. Since 1995, the firm has invested in more than two hundred startups with its market value exceeding a whopping $ 100 billion.
   
   Portfolio -
   The San Francisco based Venture Capital firm is famous for its commitment towards open source. It is also recognized for creating the first equal compensation and ownership structure for its partners. Its investments have included Instagram, Friendster, eBay, AOL and Uber, among many other.


3. 
   

   Khosla Ventures -

   
   This Menlo Park, California headquartered Venture Capital firm was founded by Vinod Khosla, in the year 2004. The firm aims to provide strategic advice and venture assistance to young entrepreneurs working on revolutionary technologies. The California based company has over 4 billion dollars under management. The firm does seed, Private Equity, Early stage venture, Post Ipo Equty, Debt Financing and later stage Venture investments.
   
   Portfolio -
   Khosla Ventures mainly focuses on investing in environmentally friendly technologies. It also makes investments in traditional venture areas like silicon, mobile, internet and computing technology arenas. Its major investments include Panzura, Amyris and EcoMotors.


4. 
   

   General Catalyst -

   
   Founded by David Orfao, Bill Fitzgerald, David Fialkow and Joel Cutler in 2000, General Catalyst is a Cambridge, MA headquartered Venture Capital firm. The firm is famous for making growth equity and early stage investments. The firm focuses on innovative technology companies working towards building products that have the potential to transform industries. The firm uses it broad experience to help entrepreneurs in building market leading businesses. It has offices in New York, Cambridge, CA, MA and Palo Alto.
   
   The firm’s tagline “Entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs” echoes its mission. The Cambridge, MA based firm believes the entrepreneurial background of its partners is its singular asset.
   
   Portfolio -
   The first has made invested in innovative technology companies like Stripe, Snapchat and Air BnB, among many others.


5. 
   

   Accel Partners -

   
   Founded in January,1983, Accel Partners is a global venture capital firm that does seed, debt financing, early stage venture, later stage venture, private equity and grant investments. The Palo Alto, CA headquartered firm has its offices in India, New York, China, Silicon Valley and London. They are famous for making multi-stage investments in internet technology based companies. The firm has over six billion dollars under management and has invested in companies like Facebook, Dropbox and Mu Sigma.
   
   Accel with over 12 investments ended up making the highest number of tech investments last year.
   
   Portfolio -
   The Silicon Valley fund was one of the earliest investors in ecommerce giant Flipkart. The fund had invested a whopping $1 million in Flipkart back then in 2009.


6. 
   

   Andreessen Horowitz -

   
   Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz is a $ 4 billion, Menlo Park, California headquartered Venture Capital firm. The 2009 established firm does debt financing, seed, early stage ventures, later stage ventures and private equity investments. The firm was ranked number one venture capital firm in 2011 by Investor Rank. The rank was based on its networks and level of syndication with other venture capital firms.
   
   The California based company made its first investment back in 2009, in Apptio, a technology business management SaaS developer. In 2011, it became the first venture capital firm to have a stock in four of the highest valued, privately owned social media companies of that year: Twitter, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.
   
   Portfolio -
   The venture capital firm recently announced investments in Distelli, an information technology automation company and Stack Exchange.  Its major investments include Skype and Foursquare.


7. 
   

   New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

   
   Founded by Frank Bonsal, Richard C. Kramlich and Chuck Newhall in 1977, NEA is one of the largest and most active venture capital firm in the world. The firm is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and Menlo Park, California. It also has its offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Baltimore, Shanghai, New York, Beijing and Boston.
   
   The global venture capital firm focuses on investment in information technology, energy technology and health care companies. The firm invests between $ 1million and $ 50 million in companies that differ in terms of both sector and stage.
   
   Portfolio -
   The firm’s current portfolio includes MongoDB, Buzzfeed, Hearsay Social, Houzz and Intarcia Therapeutics.