Emergent Raises $23 Milllion to Simplify App Building
- Emergent secures $23 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed.
- Startup hits $15M ARR in just 90 days with over 1 million users.
- Platform helps anyone, even non-coders build real, scalable apps fast.
Emergent, a fast growing startup making app development accessible to everyone, has raised $23 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Lightspeed, with backing from Together Fund, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, and prominent tech leaders like Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, and Balaji Srinivasan.
This new round brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including an earlier $7 million seed round. The company plans to use the fresh capital to grow its team, invest in R&D, and expand its one-of-a-kind platform.
Emergent calls itself an agentic vibe coding startup a fresh term, but its mission is simple, let anyone, even without a tech background, build and launch powerful apps with ease.
Within just 90 days, Emergent crossed $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and gained over 1 million users, who have already created 1.5 million+ apps on the platform.
CEO and co-founder Mukund Jha, explains, “Starting or growing a business usually involves a lot of technical hurdles. Emergent removes that friction. Our platform makes it possible for anyone, not just developers to ship production-ready software”.
What sets Emergent apart is its in-house AI coding agent and instant, launch ready platform. Users can go live with features like logins, payments, and scalable backend all without writing a single line of code.
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Lightspeed’s Hemant Mohapatra, praised the platform’s simplicity, saying, “Emergent turns complex software into a single button anyone can press to build, scale, and earn”.
From solo founders to creators and small business owners, Emergent is helping redefine who can build in tech and who can succeed.
