Emergent, an agentic vibe-coding platform, has raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed with participation from Y Combinator, Together Fund and Prosus Ventures.
The round also saw participation from leading AI angels, including Jeff Dean (Google), Devendra Chaplot (Thinking Machines), Siqi Chen (Runway), Srinivasan Venkatachary (Google Deepmind), Prasanna (Rippling), Edo Liberty (Pinecone), and Balaji Srinivasan.
This round brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including a $7 million seed.
Founded in 2025 by Mukund Jha and Madhav Jha, Emergent is an agentic vibe-coding platform. The company is building a platform that allows anyone to create full-stack, production-ready applications with the help of autonomous AI agents. Its platform enables anyone to build full-stack, production-ready applications using autonomous AI agents.
Emergent has also achieved over $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) within 90 days of launch.
Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO, said, “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.”
Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed, said, “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.”
