Overview

• Lightspeed led the Series A with participation from Y Combinator, Together Fund, Prosus Ventures, and angels Jeff Dean, Balaji Srinivasan, and Devendra Chaplot, bringing total funding to $30 million.
• Emergent’s agent-driven “vibe coding” platform lets users build apps from prompts while AI agents handle coding, testing, deployment, and bug fixes, with built-in UI, authentication, servers, payments, and scaling.
• The company reports more than 1 million users who have created over 1.5 million apps, alongside a rapid ARR ramp to about $15 million within 90 days of launch.
• Today the service deploys mobile apps via Expo, with plans for a native mobile builder, a brainstorming mode for ideation, discovery features, monetization tools, and a universal API key to simplify integrations.
• Founded by twins Mukund Jha and Madhav Jha in San Francisco and Bengaluru, Emergent is pitched by investors as lowering the coding barrier and extending into post-development support.