Vibe coding platform Emergent raises $23M in Series A round led by Lightspeed
According to the company, the funding will be utilised to expand its team, deepen investments in research and to grow the platform.
Emergent, an agentic vibe-coding platform, has secured $23 million in its Series A funding round led by Lightspeed. The round also saw participation from Together Fund, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, and leading angels including Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, and Balaji Srinivasan. With this raise, Emergent’s total funding now stands at $30 million, including a $7 million seed round backed by Y Combinator and Together Fund.
According to the company, the funding will be utilised to expand its team, deepen investments in research and to grow the platform.
Founded in 2025 by twins Mukund Jha (CEO) and Madhav Jha (CTO), the company operates out of San Francisco and Bengaluru. Mukund was previously the co-founder and CTO of Dunzo.
Emergent has gained rapid adoption since launch, surpassed $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) within just 90 days, and powering over one million users to build more than 1.5 million apps.
“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 now 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.”
Emergent provides a no-code platform that enables users such as small business owners, solo founders, and creators to develop production-ready applications. The system comes with built-in features including user interfaces, logins, servers, payments, and scaling. Its backend relies on a network of specialised AI agents that handle coding, testing, and deployment, functioning in a way similar to a distributed development team in the cloud.
"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.
Globally, Lightspeed has backed over 500 companies, including Anthropic, Affirm, Anduril, Epic Games, Nutanix, Snapchat, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Rubrik, Wiz, Oyo, Zepto, Udaan, Razorpay, PocketFM, Physics Wallah, and many others. The firm currently manages over $30 billion in AUM, with investment professionals and advisors based in the US, Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia.
Edited by Megha Reddy