Emergent, a company founded by Mukund and Madhav Jha, has raised $23 million in Series A funding to enable non-technical users to create apps using prompts, with the aim of simplifying app development.
- Emergent raised $23 million in Series A funding.
- Mukund and Madhav Jha founded Emergent.
- Emergent allows non-technical users to create apps.
- More than 1 million people built 1.5 million apps.
- Emergent aims to simplify app development processes.
- The startup uses Expo for mobile app deployment.
The funding round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from Y Combinator, Together, and notable angels including Balaji Srinivasan and Jeff Dean. Emergent has raised a total of $30 million to date.
Mukund, previously CTO at Dunzo, and Madhav, who worked at Dropbox, aim to leverage AI-powered coding to streamline the app development process. They believe agent-based app development will play a significant role in the economy over the next twenty years.
“One of the biggest roadblocks for participating in the digital economy is the ability to code. We wanted to invest in a company that brings the capability bar [for being able to code] next to zero, so [appmaking] becomes a function of intent.”
— Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed
Emergent has built infrastructure to support app development, allowing users to focus on creating without worrying about technical details. The platform includes AI agents to identify and fix coding errors.
Originally reported by techcrunch.com as “Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps” on 2025-09-24 18:00:00.
