Emergent Announces $23M, Launches a Vibe Coding Platform for Small Businesses and Everyday Entrepreneurs, Unlocking Who Can Build and Sell Software

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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 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, and brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including a $7 million seed. 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 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.
• One user 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.
• An aspiring entrepreneur in the UK and a former product manager used Emergent to develop an EV marketplace app to tap into the country’s rapidly growing EV market.

Emergent gives you a ready-to-use app from day one. It handles everything automatically on both the front end and back end - from the screens people see, to the servers, logins, payments, and the ability to scale the platform. Behind the scenes, a team of specialized AI agents code, test, and launch, essentially giving users their own development team in the cloud. These agents can spot and fix issues, work across long sessions, and remember what you’re building. The coding agent and the entire infrastructure to support app building were built in-house, from the ground up, to provide reliability, speed, and security.

“My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone to create software affordably,” shared Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO. “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.”

In addition to new funding, Emergent is also announcing it’s achieved over $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) within 90 days of launch, making it one of the fastest growing startups in the world.

"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," explained Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed.

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/

About Emergent

Emergent is the fast-growing agentic vibe-coding platform. Its platform enables anyone to build full-stack, production-ready applications using autonomous AI agents. Launched in 2025 and backed by Lightspeed, Prosus, YC, Together, and leading angels, the company has reached $15M in ARR within 90 days of launch. Emergent’s mission is to democratize software creation so that anyone can turn ideas into products.

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