Emergent

In late 2024, twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha made a quiet but audacious bet: that the next great platform shift wouldn't be about making developers faster — it would be about making developers optional. The result was Emergent, a San Francisco-based startup that launched in mid-2025 and within eight months became one of the fastest-growing software companies in history, crossing $100 million in annual recurring revenue while serving over 6 million users across 190 countries.

How It Works

Emergent is not a drag-and-drop builder or an AI autocomplete engine. It is a multi-agent system — a coordinated team of specialized AI agents (Builder, Designer, Quality, Deploy, and Ops) that plan, write, test, debug, and ship real production-grade software in response to plain-language prompts. Users describe an idea; Emergent builds the React/Next.js frontend, Node.js or Python backend, database, authentication, and deployment pipeline — no human code required. The platform hosts apps natively, monitors performance in real time, and self-debugs autonomously.

Who Builds on Emergent

Nearly 40% of Emergent's users are small businesses, and about 70% have never written a line of code. They are digitizing workflows that used to live in spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups — custom CRMs, inventory systems, booking tools, and logistics dashboards. The remaining user base spans solo founders, agencies, and a growing cohort of enterprises running pilots with the platform's compliance-ready offering. In February 2026, Emergent launched a native iOS and Android app, enabling voice-driven app creation directly from a smartphone — a move that cemented the platform's position as the vibe-coding tool for the mobile-first world.

"Domain expertise now beats coding skills."

The company's SWE-bench leaderboard performance in November 2024 gave its founders the confidence to go public. Backed by $100 million from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, Prosus, Google's AI Futures Fund, and Y Combinator, Emergent is valued at $300 million and targeting over $100 million ARR by spring 2026 — a trajectory that, if sustained, could make it one of the most capital-efficient software businesses of the AI era.