Emergent raises $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank as AI ‘vibe coding’ startup hits $50M ARR in just 7 months

Four months ago, Emergent was already moving faster than most startups ever will. The YC-backed company had just crossed $15 million in annual recurring revenue and closed a $30 million Series A. Today, it’s back with another milestone: a $70 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The round pushes Emergent’s total funding past $100 million, achieved in just seven months since launch.

Emergent Becomes One of Fastest-Growing AI Startups After $70M Raise

That growth isn’t cosmetic. Emergent now has $50 million in ARR, powered by more than 5 million users across 190 countries. In less than a year, those users have built over six million applications using the platform.

This kind of pace is rare. Venture rounds usually come after years of grinding. Emergent sprinted from seed to Series B in record time, pulling in support from Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, Y Combinator, and Google’s AI Futures Fund along the way.

The product sits inside a rising category people are calling “vibe coding.” Instead of writing code, users describe what they want, and AI builds it for them. Emergent doesn’t spit out files for developers to finish later. Everything happens within a single environment where users build, ship, and share apps in real time. Think less dev tool, more creative network where people remix and republish projects instantly.

The company calls this the “post-code” era. Software creation is shifting away from technical gatekeeping and into something closer to creative expression. Domain knowledge now matters more than syntax.

Inside the Rise of ‘Vibe Coding’: Emergent Raises $70M to Let Anyone Build Apps Without Code

That shift is already producing real businesses. Last fall, we reported on a jewelry store owner in Michigan who built an app to price repairs across 50 locations. She now sells it to other jewelers. A wheelchair logistics company replaced spreadsheets with a custom inventory tool built on the Emergent platform. A user living with chronic pain created a personal tracking app after getting fed up with existing options.

“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.”

Behind the scenes, Emergent runs on multi-agent orchestration. Separate AI agents handle design, coding, testing, deployment, and scaling. Each user gets what feels like a cloud-based dev team that can debug issues, install libraries, read logs, and retain state across sessions. The company built its own infrastructure and deployment stack to keep everything running securely at scale.

Europe has become Emergent’s second-largest market, driving one in four new users. The company plans to open offices in London and hire across the region to build local creator communities. That push comes as job losses climb across the UK and EU. Emergent’s pitch is simple: if fewer people can rely on traditional employment, more should have access to tools that help them build income on their own terms.

“Software creation is undergoing a structural shift,” Jha said. “It used to be that only people with technical training or capital got to turn ideas into real products. Emergent flips that model. We are seeing millions of people build and ship real businesses, workflows, and products in days. As a result, many are generating new sources of income.”

Investors are betting this trend is just getting started. Vinod Khosla said the company is tapping into a market that never had access to these tools before.

“When barriers to software creation fall this quickly, behavior changes across industries,” he said. “Emergent is early in shaping how software gets created and monetized over the next decade.”

SoftBank partner Sarthak Misra echoed the view, calling Emergent a catalyst for a new wave of AI-driven entrepreneurship.

The new capital will be used to hire, develop products, and expand globally. With five million users already building revenue-generating software, Emergent is no longer an experiment. It’s a live case study in what happens when building apps stops being exclusive.

Four months ago, $15 million in ARR felt shocking. Today it’s $50 million. The speed tells the real story.