Emergent, co-founded by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, has raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed, bringing its total capital raised to $30 million. With the new funds, Emergent aims to transform app development by leveraging AI-powered "vibe coding" technology. This will enable non-developers to create fully functional web and mobile applications through simple natural language prompts, automating complex coding, backend management, and deployment tasks.
CEO Mukund Jha previously worked as CTO at the Google-backed quick commerce startup Dunzo in India, while Madhav has experience working in AI and machine learning at companies like Amazon and Dropbox. They saw early on that AI-powered coding could change everything, and they wanted to build a platform that puts powerful app-building tools in the hands of people without coding skills.
Emergent’s core technology centers on what they call "agentic vibe coding," a system where users simply provide natural language prompts and AI agents handle the rest. These specialized agents build, test, and deploy fully functional, production-ready web and mobile applications autonomously.
