Emergent AI raises $23 Mn in Series A round led by Lightspeed

Emergent AI, a vibe coding platform has raised $23 million in Series A funding round led by Lightspeed.

The round also saw participation from Together Fund, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, and angel investors such as Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, and Balaji Srinivasan.

The startup will use the new funding to grow its team, advance AI coding agent research and expand its platform worldwide.

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"Our mission is to democratise software development for the masses. We want to bring the next billion people into software creation, making sure that anyone with an idea and a phone can build what they envision," Mukund Jha, cofounder and CEO of Emergent AI.

Mukund said the startup is expanding its agentic network while focusing on reinforcement learning (RL) as its next big investment. RL helps software learn through trial and error, improving decisions by maximizing long-term rewards.

"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," explained Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed.

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About Emergent AI

Founded in 2025 by brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, Emergent, which has offices in San Francisco and Bengaluru, lets users create ready-to-use software by typing natural language prompts instead of coding. Behind the scenes, AI agents take care of everything—frontend, backend, testing, deployment, and integration.

Launched just three months ago, the app builder has already hit $15M in annual recurring revenue with over a million users creating more than two million apps.

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