AI startup Emergent raises $70M funding from Khosla Ventures, others

Emergent, an Agentic AI startup, has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. 

The round also saw participation from Prosus, Lightspeed, Together and Y Combinator, taking Emergent’s total funding to $100 million since its launch last year.

The new funding will help the startup grow its team in India and the US, improve its product, and speed up global expansion as more entrepreneurs and small businesses adopt AI-powered software tools.

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“The hardest part is not building the technology anymore,” Mukund Jha, Co-founder and CEO of Emergent. “It’s keeping up with how fast people want to build.”

“Software creation is undergoing a structural shift. Earlier, only people with technical training or capital could turn ideas into real products. Emergent flips that model. We’re seeing millions of people build and ship real businesses, workflows and products in days. Many of them are generating new sources of income."

“By helping everyday people build and monetise their ideas, we’re stepping in to power the most crucial segment of the economy—small businesses and entrepreneurs,” he added.

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Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, says Emergent is “tapping into a segment that has never been served,” adding that when barriers to software creation fall this quickly, “behaviour changes across industries, not just within technology.”

About Emergent 

Founded in 2025 by former Dunzo co-founder Mukund Jha and his brother Madhav Jha, Emergent provides an AI-driven platform that lets users build full-stack, production-ready web and mobile apps using autonomous agents. The platform handles everything from design and testing to deployment and scaling, and also includes built-in monetisation through billing partners like Stripe.

The company says it has grown its annual recurring revenue from $100,000 at launch to $50 million in just seven months. Emergent is aiming to cross $100 million in ARR by April 2026 and currently serves more than 5 million users across over 190 countries, mainly entrepreneurs and small businesses creating and launching commercial software products.

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