Emergent today announced $23 million in Series A funding to empower more people to build and run businesses simply. The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from YC, Together, Prosus and leading angels includingJeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, Balaji Srinivasan and brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including a $7 million seed round. The company is building a platform that allows anyone to create full-stack, production-ready applications with the help of autonomous AI agents.
Three in four Americans have considered starting a business. But for decades, building software required code, capital or a technical co-founder. Because of these barriers, most ideas – from side hustles to small business workflows to passion projects – never made it past the whiteboard. Emergent was designed to be used by anyone – not just developers, product managers or designers. It removes that red tape, letting anyone turn ideas into production-grade apps with autonomous agents, no technical skills needed. This represents a structural shift in who gets to create software and who benefits from it.
Emergent is already enabling people to build their vision, with over a million people building more than a million and a half apps launched and counting, such as:
- A jewelry store owner in Michigan. She built an app to make it easier for her staff to price repairs across her 50 store locations and now she’s selling software to other jewelry stores.
- A small business that created an app to manage their wheelchair inventory. Now, instead of a spreadsheet, staff just snap a photo, answer a few questions and they can rapidly onboard new wheelchairs.
- Another user, Tristan, lives with chronic pain. He’s tried every pain management app, but they all missed something he needed. Now he’s built his own to help himself and others like him better manage their pain.
Emergent delivers a complete stack from day one. Agents create real and robust applications with front end, back end, databases, authentication, payments and scaling, all handled automatically. The technology is built around multi-agent orchestration, where specialized agents hand off from code generation to testing to deployment seamlessly.Each user effectively has their own development team in the cloud. Agents can debug themselves, read logs, install libraries and maintain context over extended coding sessions with long-term memory capabilities. Emergent’s agent-first architecture was designed from inception, with infrastructure, sandboxing, and deployment pipelines all built in-house for speed, security, and reliability.
“My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone with the tools to create software affordably,” shared Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO. “Addressing the technical friction with starting or growing a business, small business owners, creators and XX 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.”
In addition to new funding, Emergent is also announcing it achieved over $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) within 90 days of launch, making it one of the fastest growing startups to emerge from YC S24.
Every spreadsheet hack, every manual process and every “there should be an app for that” idea can now become real software with ease. Domain expertise now beats coding skills. Side hustles, small business owners and solo founders can build without coding, removing the requirement to have an entire engineering team to launch an app.
Start building with Emergent today at: https://emergent.sh/
