Emergent

Founder & CEO, @emergentlabs, Vibe-coder. Hiring across all roles in SF/BLR.

Emergent is an AI app builder aimed at non-technical founders and operators who want to turn how their business already works into custom software, without writing code. The platform targets a specific gap in the crowded AI coding market: entrepreneurs looking to start new businesses and small and medium-sized companies that have traditionally relied on email, spreadsheets and messaging apps to run their operations . Real customers on the platform include trucking companies building software to track shipments, factories, construction businesses creating enterprise resource planning systems, and property managers developing internal customer management tools . This launch marks the company's Series C moment. Emergent has raised $130 million at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months, in a round led by private equity firm Creaegis with participation from new investors MNI Ventures-Claypond and Sentinel Global, alongside existing backers Khosla Ventures, SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator . The company has reached an annual run-rate revenue of $120 million, up 70% in the last four months, with more than 200,000 paying customers , and roughly a third of revenue comes from North America and another third from Europe, with India accounting for about 8% to 9% . The capital will fund product research, better success rates for generated apps, support for local and open-source models, and expanded go-to-market. Emergent was started by Mukund Jha (CEO) and his brother Madhav Jha (CTO) in June last year , with about 200 employees, most based in Bengaluru and a handful in San Francisco . Jha frames the product as "an engineering team in a box" and positions it against Replit as the closest competitor, arguing that non-technical users need a platform that handles deployment, hosting, testing, and debugging alongside the work of programming , rather than the developer-first workflows of tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. The Series C, framed publicly as building "the operating system for businesses," is a bet that the next wave of software gets built by the people running the business, not the ones writing the code.

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