Emergent raises $30M in series A funding led by Lightspeed, hits $15M ARR just 90 days after launch

Startups usually spend years grinding before revenue follows. But San Francisco-based startup Emergent isn’t wasting any time. Just three months after launching, the Y Combinator–backed company has already hit $15 million in annual recurring revenue and raised a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed. The round, which brings Emergent’s total funding to $37 million, including a $7 million seed, also drew participation from YC, Together, Prosus, and notable angels like Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, and Balaji Srinivasan.

At its core, Emergent is betting on a simple but massive idea: building production-ready apps should be possible for anyone with an idea, not just developers. Its platform uses autonomous AI agents to create full-stack applications, complete with front-end, back-end, databases, authentication, and payments. The pitch is that what once took a team of engineers can now be accomplished by a single person on a phone.

Three in four Americans have considered starting a business, but most ideas never make it past the whiteboard. Coding knowledge, capital, or a technical co-founder have long been barriers. Emergent was built to clear those obstacles.

“My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone with the tools to create software affordably,” said co-founder and CEO Mukund Jha. “Addressing the technical friction with starting or growing a business, small business owners, creators, and XX can now bring their vision to life, no matter how complex, at a fraction of the time and cost.”

That vision is already producing stories you wouldn’t expect from a software startup. A jewelry store owner in Michigan used the platform to create an app that helps staff price repairs across 50 locations. She’s now selling the software to other jewelers. A small business managing wheelchairs ditched its spreadsheets and built an app where employees snap photos and answer a few questions to onboard new inventory. Tristan, a user living with chronic pain, grew frustrated with existing apps and built his own tool to track and manage it better.

Emergent (Credit: Emergent)

Emergent’s technical backbone is multi-agent orchestration. Specialized agents handle different stages of software creation—from code generation to testing to deployment—handing tasks off seamlessly. Each user effectively has their own cloud-based development team that can debug, install libraries, read logs, and maintain context over long sessions. The company built its infrastructure, sandboxing, and deployment pipelines in-house for speed, security, and reliability.

Since its 2025 launch, more than a million people have built over 1.5 million applications using Emergent. From side hustles to small business workflows to personal projects, the company is positioning itself as a structural shift in who gets to build software and who benefits from it. Domain expertise now beats coding skills.

With $30 million fresh in the bank and revenue growth few startups can match, Emergent is racing to put software creation in everyone’s hands—whether you’re running a store, managing inventory, or trying to solve a personal challenge.